By Matters India Reporter Amritsar, June 6, 2022: A top Sikh leader on June 6 expressed concern over churches and mosques being built in large numbers in rural Punjab and urged Sikh preachers to reach out and counter this trend of conversion, particularly in the state’s border areas. Akal TakhtContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jalandhar, April 1, 2019: Jalandhar diocese’s Pope-appointed administrator on April 1 clarified that an institution raided by police recently does not belong to the diocese, although managed by its priests. The Enforcement Directorate on March 29 raided “Sahodaya” (rising together) and allegedly recovered huge amount ofContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi: Pope Francis on September 20 appointed Retired Auxiliary Bishop Agnelo Rufino Gracias of Bombay as the temporary administrator of Jalandhar diocese in the absence of Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who is now in Kerala facing a sexual abuse case. “Our prayers accompany Bishop Gracias as heContinue Reading
It was December 24, 1996. The gathering at a church in Bandra saw Father Francis Miranda’s body taken away not in a coffin to the cemetery where it would have been laid to rest, but to JJ Hospital. The priest had wished to be “of service to mankind” in someContinue Reading
