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Nun who promotes traditional Indian medicine‍

Sister Innocent Joseph Ayyankanal, a member of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate, has spent over 40 years promoting Ayurveda (traditional Indian medicine) and other forms of traditional medicine among rural and tribal communities in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu and the Wayanad distric

7 Christians arrested in Indian statefor holding Sunday services

Seven Christians were jailed in a northern Indian state after Hindu vigilante groups disrupted Sunday prayer services in six places, alleging they were converting gullible people to Christianity. “This has become a pattern now to trap Christians in false conversion cases,” said Pastor Joy Mathew, who is based in Uttar Pradesh, which is India’s largest state […]

India’s first cinematographer nun wins prestigious media award

Sister Lismy Parayil, “the camera nun of India,” has won the James Alberione Award for her outstanding contributions to media production. The Indian Catholic Press Association, the oldest Catholic media forum in Asia, announced on August 19 that it has selected the Carmelite of Mary Immaculate nun for the annual award, set up in memory […]

Four New Ecclesiastical Provinces Announced in the Syro-Malabar Church

His Beatitude Mar Raphael Thattil, the Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church, issued decrees erecting four new ecclesiastical provinces in the Syro-Malabar Church—Faridabad, Ujjain, Kalyan, and Shamshabad—and appointing Mar Kuriakose Bharanikulangara, Mar Sebastian Vadakel MST, Mar Sebastian Vaniyapurackal, and Mar Prince Antony Panengadan respectively as the Metropolitan Archbishops. These decisions were announced on 28 August […]

New Bishops Appointed for Adilabad and Belthangady Eparchies

His Beatitude Mar Raphael Thattil, the Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church, announced the appointments of new bishops for the Eparchies of Adilabad and Belthangady on 28 August, during a public meeting held at the Major Archiepiscopal Curia at Mount St. Thomas, Kakkanad, in the presence of the Synod Fathers. Rev. Fr. James Patteril CMF, […]

Clergy Explore Role of Artificial Intelligencein Church Ministry at Chikmagalur

The Diocese of Chik-magalur organised a one-day seminar on “Artificial Intelligence and its Rele-vance for Pastoral Mini-stry” for the clergy on 27th August at St. Joseph’s School, Cathedral Cam-pus, Chikmagalur. The seminar aimed to help the clergy understand the growing significance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in today’s world and to explore how it can be […]