From The States

Mangaluru’s St. Aloysius Deemed University Gets First Vice Chancellor

Jesuit Father Praveen Martis has been appointed the first vice chan-cellor of the newly created St. Aloy-sius Deemed University in Mangalu-ru. This was announced on March 19 by Jesuit Karnataka provincial Father Dionysius Vaz, the university chancellor, in the southwestern India city. Fr. Martis is a former principal of St. Aloysius College (Autono-mous).

Jesuit water-diviner’s service to Maharashtra villagers recalled

The Lithuanian Embassy in New Delhi on March 22 organized a fun-ction to recall the services of a Jesuit priest who worked more than six de-cades among the poor in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Jesuit Father Donatas Slapsys, born in Lithuania in 1921, came to India in 1950 and served the people of […]

Indian army works to befriend Naga Christian village

The Naga Baptist Christians of Oting village in India’s Nagaland state, not far from the international border with Myanmar, are now trying to come out of the worst period of darkness in their life. Their village had courted ill fate and controversy on Dec. 4, 2021, when a botched-up military operation killed 14 coal mine workers, mistaking […]

Consecrated persons rejuvenate Church: Cardinal Ferrao

Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrao, archbishop of Goa and Daman, has hailed the Catholic religious men and women as a blessing since they rejuvenate the Church. “You render service to the holiness of the Church. We need your prophetic voice and action. You can teach the entire church to walk the synodal path,” the cardinal told […]

Veteran woman journalist wins Examiner weekly’s golden pen award

Nirmala Carvalho, a veteran journalist who contributes regularly to Church publications in India and overseas, has won the prestigious Golden Pen Award for excellence in journalism, given by The Examiner, a 175-year-old weekly published from Mumbai. Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, presented her the 21st award on March 10 during a function in the […]

Odisha Catholics thank Mother Mary for Kandhamal martyrs

More than 25,000 people, who attended the annual feast of a Marian shrine associated with a Hindu woman in Odisha, have credited Mother Mary for the Vatican recognition of the Kandhamal martyrs. Saraj Nayak, the secretary of the development committee of Partamaha Marian Shrine, says the Vatican approval for the Kandhamal martyrs was “a joyful […]

Power plant spells misery for Sri Lankan fisherfolk

Fisherman S.K. Cruz has been facing hard times looking after his four-member family since the government opened a 103.5 megawatts wind power plant on the coast of the Gulf of Mannar in northern Sri Lanka four years ago. Earlier, he used to take his plastic boat out five nautical miles to sea in the morning and return […]

Christians and Confucianism: Vatican and local experts discuss guidelines for dialogue

Two important initiatives to encounter East Asian religious tradition and thought see the Taiwan-Hong Kong Interreligious Dialogue Dicastros engaged in these days. An international seminar entitled “Christians promoting dialogue with Confucians: guidelines and perspectives” was held March 8 and 9 in New Taipei, Taiwan. The initiative-promoted in collaboration with the Department of Religious Studies at […]

Eviction-facing Indian Catholics to fight Muslim charity’s claims

Goans oppose tourism project near 16th century basilica