Bangalore, Sept 9, 2024: Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), has urged people working for the conference to serve the Church with joy and dedication. The cardinal was addressing the staff of various CCBI secretariats on September 9 at Paalanaa Bhavana inContinue Reading
By Rani Punnasseril Manila, Feb 19, 2024: As many as 54 people, including 22 from India, working among migrants in Asia were given special training to attend to migrants in the subcontinent. The February 12-17 program in the Philippines capital of Manila was organized by the Vatican Dicastery for IntegratedContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, Oct 23, 2023: The Conference of Catholic Bishops in India (CCBI) has organized a public strategic planning workshop for the Church in Odisha to help it focus on Synodality, Vatican-II documents, and New Evangelization in multi-religious and cultural contexts. The October 16-18 workshop “was to revisitContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, January 23, 2023: Cardinal Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, head of the Vatican Dicastery for Evangelization, will attend the 34th plenary assembly of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), the national association of the country’s Latin rite prelates. The January 24-25 annual plenary atContinue Reading
By Stephen Alathara Bengaluru, Nov 12, 2022: The 33rd plenary assembly of India’s Latin Church began with a call from Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli to promote relations with other religions with the Gandhian spirit. “All Christians must be committed to dialogue with others so that moral values are protectedContinue Reading
By Rani Punnaserril Benaulim, May 15, 2022: Unemployment and economic inequality force young people to migrate massively and the Church should address their needs at various levels, says a recent Church seminar. The Commission for Migrants of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in India (CCBI) that organized the May 11-12Continue Reading
By Rani Punnaserril New Delhi, April 6, 2022: Catholic dioceses in northern India have decided to launch a series of steps to help the poor and migrant workers. To start with, they would launch programs to educate migrants about various government welfare programs as part of the Church’s attempts toContinue Reading
By Robin Gomes Rome, Feb 17, 2022: India’s Latin-rite bishops are planning a series of events to celebrate the life and holiness of the country’s first layman and martyr who will be officially declared a saint in 3 months’ time. They are holding up the figure of Blessed Devasahayam asContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Panaji, Dec 17, 2021: Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferraro of Goa and Daman, the leader of the Latin rite bishops in India, on December 17 urged Catholics to make liturgical celebrations more meaningful, active and participatory. The president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI)Continue Reading
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
