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Youth taught to use social media to become Good Samaritans‍

A workshop organized by the Tamil Nadu Church’s online televi-sion channel has taught young people to use social media to help society” We have to decide whether to beco-me Good Samaritans or indifferent bystanders,” said Fr Jenith Sekar, the technical manager of Madha TV and the coordinator of the April 12-13 workshop on “Storytelling in […]

Six Women’s Congregations Empower Youth At Risk In Bengaluru

Members of six women congregations have come together to empower “youth at risk” in Bengaluru, a southern Indian city with more than 3 million youth. “This is the perfect example of synodality in action as envisaged by Pope Francis,” said Apostolic Carmel Sister Maria Nirmalini, leader of the Conference of Religious India, representing the country’s […]

Catholic School Vandalized, Priest Assaulted In Telangana

Paramilitary personnel have been deployed at a Catholic school in the southern Indian state of Telangana after right wing Hindu activists vandalized it and assaulted a priest. The attackers on April 16 accused the school management of hurting religious sentiments by questioning a few students who had attended class with religious dress instead of the […]

Skip Velankanni pilgrimage to vote: Cardinal Ferrão

Card. Filipe Neri Ferrão, archbishop of Goa-Dama, has urged his people to refrain from undertaking a pilgrimage to the Marian shrine at Velankanni in Tamil Nadu a day before the general elections in Goa. “It is universally recognized, espe-cially in a democracy, that the responsibility to make choices in political life rests with each individual, […]

Discuss, Discern And Vote: Bishop Udumala

The Catholics of Warangal diocese, in the southern state of Telangana, on April 21 received a pastoral letter from Bishop Bala Udumala during the Sunday liturgy. The bishop, who is also the chairman of the Telugu Catholic Bishops’ Council’s Commission on Theology and Doctrine, called for an urgent conversation among the laity, religious and clergy […]

Nuns’ ashram becomes beacon of interfaith harmony

An ashram started by a group of nuns in southern Indian town has completed 25 years promoting interfaith harmony. The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary congregation founded the Ishalaya Ashram in 2000 at Palamaner in Andhra Pradesh state in response to the Second Vatican Council’s recommendation to reach out to people of other faiths. The ashram […]