By Matters India Reporter Kochi, April 6, 2023: The Kerala government has allowed Church groups and NGOs to resume religious and counseling services for prisoners in the jails of the southern Indian state. The government revoked the March 31 order of Kerala Jail Director General of Police Balram Kumar UpadhyayContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Marthandom: Cardinal Baselios Cleemis has released the Tamil translation of Pope Francis’ recent encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” (All Brothers) at a function at Marthandam, a town in Tamil Nadu’s Kanniyakumari district. Archbishop Antony Pappusamy of Madurai, the president of Tamil Nadu Bishops’ Council (TNBC), and Archbishop GeorgeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 26, 2020: Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, head of the Syro-Malankara Church, has come to the aid of the Jacobite faction of the Syrian Orthodox Church that has lost its places of worship in a legal battle. “With great joy, we are offering you the Syro-MalankaraContinue Reading
By Philip Mathew Bengaluru: Poverty is the biggest terrorism and evil that needs to be fought by the Church, says Cardinal Charles Bo, Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar. Delivering the keynote address at the inaugural session of the 33rd general body meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) thatContinue Reading
Cardinal Cleemis met the home minister on December 20Continue Reading
Pray that those who are in their comfort zones will come out of their inns to experience the stark reality of the mangerContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi: Indian Vice President Venkiah Naidu on December 12 commended Christians for their service to those on the periphery and share in building a new India. “The Catholic community is peace-loving and it contributes immensely to nation building,” the vice president told a gathering that theContinue Reading
An 8-member delegation representing Catholic bishops met the presidentContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi: Three months after India’s theologians and Catholic religious pressed a congress of bishops to act aggressively against a wave of sex abuse cases involving priests, no official response has come. But top church leaders told National Catholic Reporter in exclusive interviews that bishops in IndiaContinue Reading
Archbishop Kuriakose Kunnacherry died on June 14Continue Reading