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BOMBAY ARCHDIOCESE WANTS BISHOP MULAKKAL TO STEP DOWN

Mumbai: The office of the Archbishop of Bombay has asked Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar to step down to help unfold an inquiry against him. It says the reputation of the Church, not just in Kerala but all over the country, is at stake and stepping down would be the right thing to do at […]

INDIAN BISHOP SEEKS FEDERAL HELP FOR FRAUGHT CHRISTIANS

Indian Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas has personally asked federal Home Affairs Minister Rajnath Singh to intervene over the mistreatment of Christians and their organizations in eastern Jharkhand State. Bishop Mascarenhas, secretary general of the Indian Bishops’ Conference, met Singh at his New Delhi office on September 3. The minister was briefed about difficulties being faced by […]

CHURCH PROJECT HELPS INDIAN VILLAGERS ENJOY DRINKING WATER

Despite being surrounded by water, Varghese Mollykutty used to row a boat four kilometres along a narrow canal to a public water source to fetch a few pots of drinkable water for her family. She and her husband and two children live on a tiny island village, Kuttanad, a unique marshy delta in India’s southern […]

FINDING SPIRITUAL COMMON GROUND BETWEEN INDIA’S RELIGIONS

“Recent events in India have damaged the country’s image as a vibrant, plural and successful democracy.” That is the opening line of former Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran’s recent article in which he expresses his “growing concern over the rising polarisation and communalism of our social and political discourse.” Saran pointed out: “We pride ourselves in […]

CHURCH DONATES MOTHER MARY’S ORNAMENTS TO FLOOD RELIEF

The authorities of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception Church at Manjummel has decided to donate two gold ornaments used to adorn Mother Mary to the Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund (CMDRF). The necklaces weighing 25 sovereigns made using the gold offering by the devotees over 100 years. The necklaces used to adorn the statue of […]

Kerala floods: Catholic nuns take forefront in relief work

More than 6,700 Catholic nuns are among those helping over a million people taking shelter in relief camps after unprecedented floods ravaged Kerala, a south-western Indian state. “This is the biggest rescue and relief operation the Catholic Church in Kerala has under-taken in its history,” says Fr George Vettikattil, who heads the church’s relief operations […]

Fishermen become heroes of Kerala flood

Fishermen in India’s Kerala State are being hailed as heroes for using their traditional wooden boats to rescue men, women and children from swirling flood-waters. “You are like our God,” a woman with folded hands told fishermen who saved her along with another female villager and 30 youngsters trapped in a children’s home in Alappuzha […]

Abp Barwa: Odisha Church enriched by the blood of its martyrs

Christians in India are marking the 10th anniversary of the brutal violence that Christians of eastern India’s Odisha State faced in 2008, with a Mass in the state capital , Bhubaneswar, on August 25. Archbishop John Barwa together with the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) are celebrating the 10th anniversary Mass at St Joseph […]

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