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“Arson” destroys church in Tamil Nadu

A church in Tamil Nadu was destroyed in a suspicious arson attack, Matters India learnt on May 11. According to Shibu Thomas, founder of Persecution Relief, the incident occurred on April 24 at Thittacherry, Nagapattinam. Member of the “Jesus with us” had gathered in the church for a fasting prayer meeting. The meeting ended late […]

Persecution brought us religious vocation: Kandhamal sisters

Hundreds of Christians and Hindus attended a thanksgiving Mass for two sisters who became full-fledged Catholic nuns after suffering religious persecution as teenagers in Odisha’s Kandhamal district. While Manjuta Pradhan professed final vows as a member of the Franciscan Sisters of St Joseph on April 27, her elder sister pronounced her vows in the Daughters […]

Naga choir to represent India at Asian youth conference

A choir comprising of different Naga tribes and Churches would represent India at the Asia Baptist Youth Conference in the Philippines. The Cantamus choir would represent Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) at the May 21 -24 conference in Baguio city of the Philippines. In this connection, Cantamus choir would organize a concert to raise funds […]

Repeated attacks on Jharkhand Christians worrisome: Church body

A Christian body in Jharkhand on May 13 expressed grave concern over what it says is the misuse of media to systematically spread false and sensational allegations against their community in the eastern Indian state. “The media are systematically implicating Christian institutions in order to incite the public,” says a press release from the All […]

Cardinal, Maulana propose to send delegation to Sri Lanka

The head of the Catholic Church and general secretary of Muslim theologians in India on May 4 proposed to send a high level interfaith delegation to Sri Lanka to explore ways to help the island nation struggling to recover from terrorist attacks. “The most ghastly serial bomb blasts in Sri Lanka’s churches and hotels on […]

SC orders bail for one of the seven innocents of Kandhamal violence

The Supreme Court of India on May 9 granted bail to Gornath Chalanseth, one of the seven innocent Christians languishing in jail for a decade due to the alleged Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a hard-line Hindu group, fraud on Kandhamal, on bail application led by ADF (Alliance Defending Freedom) legal team. The New Delhi-based ADF, […]

South Asian Jesuits rediscover richness of ‘Spiritual Conversation’

A group of South Asian Jesuits has expressed the joy of rediscovering the richness of an Ignatian spiritual tradition. President of the Jesuit Conference of South Asia, Father George Pattery, called the ‘spiritual conversation’ as “a rare fruit.” Some 200 Jesuits from 19 provinces and regions of South Asia attended the April 25-28 assembly on […]

Indian Church’s gender policy a failed promise: Women theologians

The ten-year-old gender policy of the Indian Catholic Church has proved to be a failed promise, women theologians say. A great majority of women’s servitude betrays male privilege that is normalized in the families and in the Church. “This situation makes us interrogate whether the ‘Gender Policy of the Catholic Church in India’ acclaimed as […]