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Salesian priest trains hundreds of young Oil India executives

A Salesian priest has been training industry professionals in northeastern India. Father V M Thomas is now busy conducting 19 training programs for the Oil India Ltd company executives. The two-day programs for 576 in batches of 30 began in July and concludes in November. Christened Skill Matrix Assessment Retreat and Training or SMART, the […]

Women top Gospel Singer Reality Show

Three women from different parts of northern India have won the top prizes of the first Gospel Singer Reality Show conducted by a popular Church TV channel. While Lynette John, a mother and an English music teacher from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, notched the top posi-tion, S Jyoti from Bhilai, an industrial city of Chhattisgarh, stood […]

Indian Catholic bishops elect Archbishop Thazhath as leader

Archbishop Andrews Tha-zhath of Trichur has been ele-cted president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), the national body that represents more than 22 million Catholics in the country. The conference’s general body that met in Bengaluru Nov 6-11 also elected Archbishop George Antonysamy of Madras-Mylapore and Bishop Joseph Thomas of Batheri as the […]

Vizhinjam protests: Catholic priest denies foreign aid allegation

A Catholic priest has vowed to quit priesthood and face any punishment if an allegation is proved that a Church-led protest against seaport project has received foreign fund to destabilize the country. “Our hands are clean and ready to face any probe,” says Father Theodacious D’Cruz, one of the conveners of the fishermen’s protest against […]

Collection of writings in honor of Jesuit Islamic scholar released

Jesuit superior general Father General Arturo Sosa has released a collection of writings in honour of a pioneer in Christian-Muslim relations who had worked in India for decades. While releasing the book “Witness to a Common Hope: Festschrift in honour of Jesuit Father Christian W. Troll on October 28 at the Jesuit head-quarters in Rome, […]

CBCI: Nuncio urges Indian bishops to become exemplary prelates

The Indian Catholic bishops’ 35th general body meeting on November 7 took off to a colorful start with the Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Leopold Girelli celebrating the opening with more than 200 prelates as concelebrants. Present at the opening program at St John’s National Academy of Health Science in Bengaluru were Cardinals Mario Grech, the secretary […]

Cardinal Alencherry asked to appear in person in court

The Kerala High Court has asked Cardinal George Alencherry, head of the Catholic Church in the southern Indian state, to appear before a court in connection with cases related to a land sale. The top court in Kerala November 9 dismissed the cardinal’s plea seeking exemption from personal appearance before the Judicial First Class Magistrate […]

“Union Govt. Cites ‘Foreign Contributions’ For Keeping Out Dalit Christians, Muslims Out of SC List”

An affidavit filed by the Union govern-ment with the Supreme Court claims Islam and Christianity’s allegedly “foreign” contri-butions as justification for keeping Dalit Muslims and Dalit Christians out of the Scheduled Castes list, The Hindu has report-ed. The report notes that the affidavit “contra-dicts itself at several junctures,” and that there is “a lack of […]