From The States

Bosco youth help plant 1,000 trees on Gandhi Jayanti

Bosco Youth of Bangalore Archdiocese has celebrated the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi Jayanti) by pledging a greener nature. Around 41 Bosco youth and their animators on October 2 planted more than 1,000 saplings at Kishore Farm, Manchanahalli, Chikka-ballapur district about 60 km from Bengaluru city. It was part of a mega rural plantation […]

Caritas India awarded for Covid-19 efforts

Caritas India, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India’s social wing, has bagged the award for the best non-govern-mental organization for health-care services during the Covid-19 outbreak. Federal Health Minister Harsh Vardhan presented the award to Father Paul Moonjely, director of Caritas India, on Oct. 2 in a virtual ceremony organized by media group India Today. […]

Bombay Archdiocese’s seminary completes 60 years

St Pius X College, the major seminary of the Arch-diocese of Bombay, October 5 celebrated its sixty years of existence. Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, celebrated the thanksgiving Mass at the seminary located at Goregaon West. The seminary has been instrumental in training ‘Ambassadors for Christ’ for Western India and beyond, the cardinal said. […]

Indian Catholics mourn loss of Belgian priest

Catholics and Jesuits in the eastern Indian State of Jharkhand are mourning a Belgian priest who worked tirelessly to educate tribal people and the downtrodden. Father Louis Francken died on Oct. 5 in Constant Lievens Hospital and Research Centre in Mandar, a suburb of Ranchi, the state capital. He was 82 and died of age-related illnesses. “His first […]

Jesuit college honors Patna-born international scientist

St Xavier’s College of Management and Techno-logy in Patna October 6 conferred the Xavier Pride of Bihar Award 2020 on Saikat Guha, the new director of Centre for Quantum Networks under the University of Arizona in the United States. The award was presented during an online interactive session the Patna-born scientist had with the students […]

Rape-accused bishop’s picture with Pope pert-urbs Catholic women

The publication of a rape accused bishop’s picture with Pope Francis in a feast day greeting has upset a group of Catholic women in India. A press release issued by Sisters in Solidarity on October 6 says its members “are perturbed to see a greeting that is being circulated on the occasion of the feast […]

Historic or hysterical? The Modi way and how India was let down

There is a mixed bag in governance in India these days. On one hand, Muslims are demonized, Christians’ charity and philanthropic works are linked to the forced conversion debate and quite often sedition laws or the controversial Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA) are used to silence dissent. Then there is the latent anguish of […]

Vatican envoy’s removal cheers up some Indian Catholics

Several Catholic groups in India have expressed relief after the Vatican removed its controversial envoy from the country. Pope Francis on August 29 suddenly transferred Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro, apostolic nuncio to India and Nepal, to Brazil amid accusations of inaction against allegedly corrupt bishops. “I saw the nuncio’s transfer as a small moral victory, not […]

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Youth taught to use social media to become Good Samaritans

Pakistan’s oldest priest passes away at 97