Bangalore: Father Baptist Pais was appointed the executive secretary to the Commission for Ecumenism under the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India. The 61-year-old member of the Mumbai province of the Divine World Society was made by the conference’s executive committee in a virtual meeting May 14-15. Father Pais was theContinue Reading

By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru: The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) says Catholics can in good conscience receive anti-Covid-19 vaccines produced using cells derived from aborted human fetuses in research and experimentation. The use of such vaccines does not constitute formal co-operation with abortion, says statement released MarchContinue Reading

By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar, July 16, 2020: The 33rd plenary of the Conference of Catholic Bishops’ of India (CCBI), which was scheduled to take place early next year in Odisha, has been postponed because of Covid-19 pandemic. The bi-annual CCBI assembly of Latin Rite bishops was supposed to takeContinue Reading

By Matters India Reporter Bangalore, July 29, 2019: The Youth Commission of the Conference of Catholic Bishops’ of India (CCBI) is celebrating the 3rd National Youth Day on August 11, which marks a day dedicated by the Bishops of India to all the young people nationwide. CCBI is the episcopalContinue Reading

By Anand Mathew Varanasi: March 9, 2019: Christians in India should stop “doing activities” and accompany the excluded and broken people in their struggle for a dignified life. For this, they have to discard a culture of rhetoric and reestablish their rootedness in Jesus and make a lasting commitment toContinue Reading

Mahabalipuram, Dec 3: India’s Latin-rite bishops are gathering in the holding their plenary assembly next week in the seaside town of Mahabalipuram in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state. The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) of the Latin-rite bishops, is holding its 31st plenary assembly at the Joe Animation Centre from January 8 to 14 onContinue Reading