By Matters India Reporter Indore, Oct 20, 2024: The progressive group among India’s Catholic religious has resolved to live their prophetic call to address systemic, structural issues in society. For this, the members of Forum of Religious for Justice and Peace, who met October 18-20at Indore, central India, decided toContinue Reading
By Anand Mathew Kathmandu, Feb 19, 224: Social activists from 72 countries attended the five-day World Social Forum (WSF) convention that ended February 19 in Kathmandu with a call to create a war-free world. The convention with the slogan ‘Another World is Possible’ began February 15 with a rally ofContinue Reading
By Anand Mathew Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 16, 2023: An advocacy group for Catholic religious in India has decided to join civil society groups and national campaigns to defeat what it calls fascist, fundamentalist, and fanatic forces in the coming state and the 2024 general elections. Around 80 members of the ForumContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Thannipuzha, March 27, 2023: An advocacy group for Catholic religious in India has termed as unacceptable an archbishop’s conditional offer of support to the Bharatiya Janata Party saying it would have serious long term repercussions. “We are shocked by the recent statement made by Archbishop MarContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Sept 27, 2022: An advocacy group for Catholic religious in India has urged the leaders of their congregations and their national association to implement Catholic social teachings that stress involvement in the life of the poor, marginalized, exploited and vulnerable. “This will enable us toContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, Feb 7, 2022: The initiative that the Forum of Religious for Justice and Peace (FORUM) took to organize a webinar on ‘Religious conversion’ on February 5 was laudable. Two legal experts Kalpana Kannabiran and Robin Christopher enlightened the participants on the constitutional and political dimensions ofContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi Kochi, Feb. 3, 2019: An advocacy group for Catholic religious has urged major superiors of women’s congregation to ensure that their members are protected against sexual harassment. The Forum of Religious for Justice and Peace, in a press release on February 3, also asked the superiors toContinue Reading
The call of a Dalit is neither life-defeating, nor life-negating but life-promoting and life-affirmingContinue Reading
Poor treatment of Catholic religious women by male members of the church is “a very serious problem” in IndiaContinue Reading
The forum lists several scandals in the Indian ChurchContinue Reading
