By Anil Ivan Fernandes Mangaluru, Aug 29, 2025: The Church in India on August 29 mourned the death of Father Vincent Francis Monteiro, former national director of Christian student movements. Father Monteiro died at 9 am on August 29 at St Juze Vaz Home, Jeppu, in Mangalore, where he wasContinue Reading
By Rani Punnasseril Guwahati, Aug 27, 2025: Groups working to end human trafficking in northeastern India have forged a network among Churches in the region to tackle the social menace. “When the Church stands together in faith and action, we can transform migration from a story of vulnerability into aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Hyderabad, Aug 26, 2025: A coalition of civil society organizations on August 26 demanded urgent and systemic reforms to industrial safety in Telangana, a southern Indian state. The demand came at a workshop organized in the backdrop of the June 30 explosion at Sigachi Industries inContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Aug 19, 2025: Sister Lismy Parayil, “the camera nun of India,” has won the James Alberione Award for her outstanding contributions to media production. The Indian Catholic Press Association, the oldest Catholic media forum in Asia, announced on August 19 that it has selected theContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Jaleswar, August 7, 2025: A mob of Bajrang Dal activists has assaulted two Catholic priests, two nuns and a catechist at a mission state of Balasore diocese in Odisha, an eastern Indian state. The Hindu radical outfit accused the Catholic group of indulging in religious conversion. TheContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Mumbai, August 7, 2025 — St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, has cancelled its annual Stan Swamy Memorial Lecture scheduled for August 9, following protests from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a student organization affiliated with the RSS. The lecture, titled “Migration for Livelihood: Hope amidst Miseries,” wasContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Aug 4, 2025: President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 4 led the nation to mourn the death of Shibu Soren, founding patron of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and one of India’s towering tribal leaders. He was 81. The former chief ministerContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Bilaspur, August 2, 2025: A National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Bilaspur on Aug. 2 granted bail to three individuals, including two Catholic nuns from Kerala, arrested on July 25 over allegations of human trafficking and forceful religious conversion. The accused—Sister Preeti Mary, Sister Vandana Francis, andContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, July 21, 2025: The head of the Syro-Malabar Church on July 21 joined political and social leaders to mourn the death of a towering figure in Kerala politics and India’s most senior Communist party leader. Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan, who was popularly known as VS, diedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kannur, July 13, 2025: Rajagiri College of Social Sciences (Autonomous), managed by the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate congregation in Kerala’s Kochi, has ranked second among 25 best social work institutes in India. The top rank in the list of “India Today Best Colleges 2025” has goneContinue Reading
