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Angel Voice’s priest founder dies

Father Kuriakose Kachiramattom, the founder director of the nationally famous Christian music troupe – Angel Voice Gospel Music Group — died April 22. He was 79. The death occurred in the after-noon at Lissie Hospital in Ernakulam, Kochi. Father Kachiramattom be-longed to Kothamangalam Syro-Malabar Eparchy.

Rani Maria film to hit silver screen soon

A Bollywood feature film on Blessed Rani Maria, a martyred social reformer, will be released in August, says director Shaison P Ouseph. “This is the culmination of a 5-year dream and hard work, which is at the final stage of completion,” Ouseph told Matters India April 27. Cardinal George Alencherry, head of the Syro-Malabar Church, […]

Hyderabad: Foundation laid for church in Secretariat complex

Medak Diocese Bishop Reverend AC Soloman said Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao was safeguarding the secular fabric in Telangana by according equal importance to all communities. The Medak Diocese Bishop along with MLC Rajeshwar Rao laid the foundation stone for a new church coming up at the new State Secretariat complex on April 28. Bishop […]

First women’s college on west coast turns coed

Come September, the first women’s college on India’s western coast will admit young men as students. The Apostolic Carmel congregation started St Agnes College in Mangaluru more than a century ago to exclusively educate women. After its centenary celebrations in 2021, the college decided to start co-education, says principal Apostolic Carmel Sister M Venissa. “The […]

Indian court settles row over interfaith marriage

A top court’s refusal to intervene in the marriage of a Christian woman to a Muslim man has brought the curtain down on a snowballing controversy in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The father of Jyotsna Mary Joseph, who worked as a nurse in Saudi Arabia, had filed a habeas corpus petition in Kerala […]

Catholic teachers in northeast’s Salesian colleges mull their role

More than 90 Catholic faculty members from 10 Don Bosco colleges in northeastern India spent four days reflecting on their role in higher education institutions. The ten participating Salesian colleges were Assam Don Bosco University Guwahati, Don Bosco Colleges of Maram, Bongaigaon, Gola-hat, Kohima, Siliguri, Sonada, Shillong, Tura and Government College Cherapunjee. The program was […]

Hindu nationalists want Christian chaplains banned from Indian jails

Hindu nationalists in India want Christian chaplains banned from visiting prisons, claiming they are trying to convert the prisoners. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal groups complained to police in the southern Indian state Karnataka about the distribution of Bibles to the prisoners in the Gadag district jail and demanded the immediate suspension […]

False and misleading: Bangalore archbishop on Bible in class row

Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore on April 26 dis-missed as false and misleading the media reports that some Catholic schools in the southern Indian city force children to buy Bibles and bring them to class. According to an ndtv.com April 25 report a row erupted in Karnataka after a Catholic school in Bengaluru, the state […]