By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Aug 24, 2020: Cardinal George Alencherry, head of the Syro-Malabar Church, has urged his people to observe lent for seven days from September 1 to seek divine assistance to fight the coronavirus pandemic that continues to wreak havoc in the world, especially in India. TheContinue Reading
By Percival Holt Faridabad, August 23, 2020: The National Youth Commission of the Conference of Catholic Bishops’ of India has decided to address the mental wellbeing of young people amid the Covid-19 pandemic. In these times of uncertainty, the commission is committed to paying attention to the psychological and mentalContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Aug 22, 2020: A forum for Catholic nuns, brothers and priests practicing as lawyers says time has come for the self-examination of the Supreme Court of India. “It is the right time for the Apex Court for its self-examination,” the National Lawyers Forum ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Aug 21, 2020: The head of the Jesuits in South Asia has urged his men to observe a day of fasting in solidarity with Prashant Bhushan, an activist lawyer who has been convicted for contempt of court. “We invite you to join the variousContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jalandhar, Aug 19, 2020: A Catholic television channel in the northern Indian state of Punjab has been flooded with congratulatory messages after YouTube honored it for achieving a “six-digit milestone.” “You have just done something that very few YouTube creators accomplish. You had an astonishing 100,000Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Aug 19, 2020: Archbishop Felix Machado of Vasai, secretary general of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, has urged Catholics to stand with the poor who are considered “useless objects” by the modern economic system. The poor have become ‘insignificant,’ a non-person, without anyContinue Reading
Vatican City, Aug 18, 2020: Pope Francis has donated ventilators and ultrasound scanners to hospitals in coronavirus-ravaged Brazil. In a Aug. 17 press statement, papal almoner Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said that 18 Dräger intensive care ventilators and six Fuji portable ultrasound scanners would be shipped to Brazil on the pope’sContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, Aug 17, 2020: The only woman to edit India’s first Catholic weekly, who had spent years to rehabilitate sex workers, died of cardiac arrest August 17 in Kolkata, eastern India. Sister Caridad Paramundayil was 71. The member of the Sisters Adorers Handmaids of the BlessedContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Konchowki, Aug 13, 2020: A network of NGOs engaged in monitoring the implementation of the National Food Security Act in West Bengal plans to move the Kolkata High Court against the alleged misappropriation of funds by various government agencies. The NGOs, under the umbrella of Right ToContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kottayam, August 13, 2020: The District and Session Court in Kottayam, Kerala, on August 13 formally charged Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar for alleged rape of a Catholic nun. The trial court read out the chargesheet that accused Bishop Mulakkal of raping former superior general ofContinue Reading
