By Matters India Reporter Kottayam, Nov 2, 2021: A Muslim body in Kerala has filed a case against a Catholic bishop for allegedly promoting disharmony, enmity and hatred between two religious communities in the southern Indian state. The police in Kuravilangad town in Kottayam district November 1 registered the caseContinue Reading
By George Plathottam Manila, Sept 28, 2021: People who wanted to go after the blood of Bishop Joseph Kallarangatt of Palai have made a heady cocktail of issues such as fanning communal disharmony, pandering to rightwing politics of the BJP and Sangh Parivar, interreligious marriages, conversions, peaceful co-existence of peopleContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Sept. 23, 2021: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has debunked a bishop’s allegation that some groups are using fake love and narcotics to trap Catholic youth in the southern Indian state. The chief minister on September 22 presented data from the crime department to prove theContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi: A group of Catholic women says they are deeply concerned over a bishop’s controversial statement that now threatens communal harmony in India. In a statement endorsed by 89 Catholic women from across India urges the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India and its Kerala unit toContinue Reading
By John Dayal New Delhi: No boat on a choppy Sea of Galilee would have been tossed as violently as the Church in India finds itself shaken today, trying to negotiate its way between competitive political space with Muslims and Hindus in distant Kerala, rampant persecution by non-state actors inContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Palai: Bishop Joseph Kallarangatt of Palai has stirred another controversy by alleging that some groups try to destroy young Catholics with narcotics and fake love. In a democratic country like India, use of weapons to destroy another community is impossible, so they use novel methods like “loveContinue Reading
Palai: Bishop Joseph Kallarangatt of Palai has issued a circular, warning families about “fraudsters” who allegedly trap girls and young women. In an August 28 circular, the bishop told parish priests that the “fraudsters” call local body representatives disguising as former priests. They then claim that they are living abroadContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Palai, Dec 16, 2019: Tens of thousands of farmers converged in Palai to protest the deepening crisis in the agrarian sector in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The farmers came from 170 parishes of Ernakulam, Kottayam, and Idukki districts and first formed a protest wallContinue Reading