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Four congregations work together to help girls with disabilities

Sr Teslin Poovathanickal is proud of the wounds on her face. “Oh, they are my Ruby’s gift,” the 43-year-old member of the Preshitharam Sisters says as she runs her fingers over the marks. Ruby, a 26-year-old woman with speech and hearing impairment who gets violent occa-sionally, scratched Poovathanickal’s face in a fit of anger a […]

Latin-Rite dioceses to mark “Communio India” Sunday

The Latin-Rite dioceses of India will mark “Communio India” Sunday on November 29 (first Sunday of Advent) with the theme “Love one another as I have loved you” (John 13: 34). “This year we observe Communio India Sunday amidst the suffering and the challenges created by the Covid-19 pan-demic. Nevertheless, the missionary journey of the […]

Jain businessman who promoted Bible passes away

A Jain businessman, who funded the publication of Bible reflections running to ten volumes eight years ago, died in Indore, Madhya Pradesh State. Ajit Kumar Kasliwal passed away on November 19 after a prolonged period of illness. He was 84. Father Alengaden says the Jain businessman was a sign of hope when India experiences tension […]

Laicized Protestant bishop reinstated in Indian diocese

The Protestant Church of North India (CNI) has reinstated a bishop three months after it laicized him for breaking away and declaring his diocese autonomous. The CNI Synod, the church’s top decision-making body, on Nov. 19 decided to revoke its decision to laicize Bishop Basil B. Baskey of Chotanagpur Diocese in eastern India’s Jharkhand State. […]

New archbishop appointed for Hyderabad

Pope Francis on November 19 transferred Bishop Anthony Poola of Kurnool to Hyderabad as its archbishop. The Pope also accepted the resignation of Archbishop Thumma Bala of Hyderabad, who reached the bishops’ canonical retirement age of 75 in April 2019. Archbishop Bala headed the archdiocese for 9 years since 2011. Bishop Poola was born on […]

Assam Christians mourn death of former chief minister

The Christian community of Assam joined social and political leaders to mourn the death of Tarun Gogoi, a former chief minister of the north-eastern Indian State. Gogoi, who was Assam chief minister for three terms died on November 23 while undergoing treatment at the Gauhati Medical College Hospital for post-Covid complications. He was 84. The […]

Exhibition of paintings by Capuchin priests concludes

An exhibition of paintings by Fr Joby Maryson Capuchin and an exhibition of pen sketches by Fr R.V. Capuchin was held at Kerala Lalithakala Acadami in Thrissur from  30 April to  5 May 2018. Fr Joby Marson Capuchin, an ardent admirer of mural paintings, show-cased about 12 sets of pictures of the Saint Francis of […]

Pope defrocks Indian priest

Pope Francis has dismissed from priesthood the former spokesperson of the Catholic Church in the central Indian State of Madhya Pradesh. “Now, with regret and pain I wish to formally communicate to everyone that by an official decree from our Supreme Pontiff Pope Francis, dated 22 October 2020, Anand Muttungal (Joseph M.T) of the Archdiocese […]