A Salesian college in Kerala suffered huge losses after miscreants attacked it for taking disciplinary action against a student. The authorities of the Don Bosco College, Sultan Bathery in Wayanad district, have blamed the activists of the Student Federation of India (SFI) and the Democratic Youth Front of India (DYFI) for the July 11 attack.
Catholic communicators in northeast to fight fake news
The need to highlight truth amid lies and promote peace in a troubled region was stressed at a meeting of Catholic communicators of north-eastern India. Signis (fire) is an international media moment recognized by the Catholic Church. Northeast is one of its 14 regions in India. The region held its annual general body meeting on July 8 at Inspiration building in Guwahati, the commercial capital of Assam State.
Hundreds attend visionary missionary’s funeral
Sacred Heart Church in Mumbai’s Andheri East suburb was packed with people on July 6 for the funeral Mass of Father Augustine Kanjamala, a renowned theologian and missiologist.
He died at Holy Spirit Hospital, Mumbai. He was 78.
Bishop Chacko Thottumarikal of Indore, who led the Mass, noted that the Divine Word priest served the Church intensely with his visionary leadership in evangelization.
Priest arrested for child abuse
Christian leaders say that a Catholic priest arrested for abusing a child in the central Indian State of Madhya Pradesh has been framed to malign the Christian community in the state ruled by a pro-Hindu party.
On July 10, police arrested Father Leo D’Souza, 56, following a complaint from the parents of an eighth-grade boy of the church-run Amar Jyoti School in India a Hindu nation.
The priest is manager of the school run by Jabalpur Diocese.
Bishop Gerald Almeida of Jabalpur said the accusation and the arrest has “shocked” the diocese. He said hard-line Hindu groups had earlier tried to create trouble for Christians accusing them of converting tribal people to Christianity.
