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Salesian priest among teachers honoured in Siliguri

A professional youth group of company secretaries and chartered accountants in Siliguri marked this year’s Teacher’s Day by honouring school principals and senior teachers. Among the educators honoured by Marwari Yuva Manch was Salesian Father C.M. Paul, a lecturer of Sesian College Siliguri, West Bengal. Recognition was handed over on Sept. 8 by Inspector General […]

School that braved testing times to educate rural poor

On this teacher’s day, a school in Odisha, which is the lifeline of many students and a ray of hope for many teachers, Vidya Jyoti Girls High School, Kahupani, a tribal hamlet in the Kutra Block of Sundargarh district, was established in 1982. The hamlet is some 20 km from the nearest town. Transport and […]

Christian-majority Indian state objects to cow protection march

A Hindu group’s plan to campaign against cow slaughter in India’s Christian-majority Nagaland has invited criticism from several quarters, including the state’s ruling alliance. National-level Hindu leaders, such as Shankaracharya Avimukteshwaranand Maharaj of Jyotirmath, are scheduled to arrive for the Gau Dhwaj Yatra (cow protection march) set for Sept. 28. However, the state’s political parties […]

Indian diocese foils bid to install Hindu deity idol in college

An Indian prelate says his diocese has foiled an attempt by the student wing of the country’s ruling party to install a Hindu deity’s statue in a church-run college with police help. Members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (All India Students’ Council), affiliated to the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra […]

Latin bishops launch school textbooks for higher secondary schools

The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) on September 10 launched a set of 115 textbooks for schools under the Central Board of Secondary Education and the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education. CCBI president Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrao, Archbishop of Goa and Daman, unveiled the textbooks at an event held at St. John’s National […]

Two people booked for trying to sell historic Indian church

Police in a northern Indian state have booked two people for allegedly trying to sell off a more than a century-old Protestant church by posing as its office bearers. Police said Jordan Masih and Mary Wilson were arrested after they tried to sell the 129-year-old Golaknath Memorial Church in Punjab state’s Jalandhar city, posing as […]

Mar Thomas Tharayil elected as Archbishop of Changanacherry and Mar Prince Antony Panengadan Bishop of Shamshabad

The Synod of the Syro-Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church, gathered at Mount St. Thomas, Kerala, having received prior papal assent according to CCEO can. 184, canonically elected to the office of Archbishop of the Archeparchy of Changanacherry, Mar Thomas Tharayil (52), until present Auxiliary of the Archeparchy of Changanacherry, and Mar Prince Antony Panengadan (48), until […]

Church in India Unveils National Pastoral Plan: Mission 2033

The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) has launched its new National Pastoral Plan, titled “Journeying towards a Synodal Church: Mission 2033.” The plan was officially released by Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, President of the CCBI, during a meeting at St. John’s National Institute of Health Sciences, Bangalore, on September 11, 2024. The event […]