Pope Francis appoints two new bishops for India

The pontiff appointed Father Fulgence Aloysius Tigga as the new bishop of Raiganj in West Bengal state and Salesian Fr Dennis Panipitchai as the auxiliary of Miao in Arunachal Pradesh, according to a press release from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India headquarters in New Delhi.

Father Tigga, a priest of Bettiah diocese in Bihar, is currently its vicar general.

Father Panipitchai is currently the parish priest of Mary Immaculate Parish, Chingmeirong, in Imphal archdiocese in Manipur diocese. He is also a consulter of the Salesians’ Dimapur province.

Spanish bishops speak out after leaks of their meeting with Leo XIV

The executive committee of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference, (CEE, by its Spanish acronym) meeting in Madrid this week, issued an official statement regarding the leaks

Thousands convene in Assisi to pray before bones of St. Francis on first day of historic viewing

Hundreds of pilgrims lined up before dawn on Sunday to be among the first to pray before the exposed relics of St. Francis in his

Tex-Mex border bishops say ‘Our role is to be pastors’

A group of bishops from the Texas-Mexico border region, informally known as the “Tex-Mex bishops” met in El Paso, Texas on Friday to discuss immigration

Ukraine four years on: ‘It is a living paschal story’

Four years ago on February 24, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine-scaling up on an already intense conflict that had begun eight years prior.

Send Us A Message

Exit mobile version