For the people of El Salvador, Sarurday, 22 January 2022 was more than just a red-letter day. Three of their sons, Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande and his two lay associates, 72-year-old Manuel Solorzano and 15-year-old Nelson Rutilio Lemus (and Italian Franciscan missionary Fr. Cosme Spessotto who was also martyred) will be beatified in San Salvador. […]
Against a background of ‘well-planned attacks’ on Christian institutions reported in the media and 486 incidents of violence against Christians in the past year (as reported by United Christian Front) the voice of the official church, the CBCI(Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India*) is missing. This is the gist of an appeal sent out to CBCI […]
Cedric Prakash SJ, human rights, reconciliation and peace activist/ writer reflects on the recent chain of events taking place in India, and asks a question that has been begging for an answer. ‘The Quint’ (3 January 2022) has an article ‘Events on Christ will end with “Jai Sri Ram”: Behind Church Attacks in Haryana’. The […]
Students of Patna Women’s College and St. Karen’s Secondary School, and teachers of Don Bosco Academy and St. Karen’s Schools were the top winners in the Songs of Joy Christmas Carol Festival organised on Friday 17th December by St. Xavier’s College of Management and Technology, Patna. Some 225 participants from 8 institutions, in a total […]
Jesuit activist and social rights campaigner Cedric Prakash SJ examines the latest action in Gujarat against a shelter run by the MC sisters: State actors are trying to implicate the nuns for ‘frauduent and forced conversion’. It is been happening with frightening regularity all over India and particularly in States run by the Bhartiya Janata […]
Apostolic Nuncio to India Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli was given a rousing welcome during his first visit to The Queen of Apostles Parish in the Kurji locality of Patna, the largest parish in Patna Archdiocese. A special escort of honour escorted the car carrying the Papal Nuncio from the Seva Kendra complex to the Queen of […]
Now there’s a computer font based on St. Teresa of Avila’s handwriting Fr. Martín Larios scanned the saint’s writing so we can type exactly as she wrote. Want to write like a saint? Now you can, thanks to the work of a Carmelite priest who has created a computer font based on the actual handwriting […]
The new front for confrontation against ‘Conversions to Christianity’ is opening up along India’s North-western border, as a leading Sikh cleric accuses ‘Christian missionaries’ of ‘aggressive proselytisation’ and vows to stem the tide. Even as Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore and various Christian leaders have condemned the continuous harassment on the Christian Missionaries in Karnataka […]
A prominent and retired Church of England bishop once tipped to become a future Archbishop of Canterbury has been received into the Catholic Church, and is set to be ordained as a deacon on October 28, and a priest on October 30 this year. Former Anglican bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali was received into the […]
On Sunday, the 17th of October, Dioceses all over the world [including our own] will inaugurate the Diocesan phase of Sixteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, it is the first phase of the synod that will conclude with the Bishops Synod in Rome in October 2023. Fr Cedric Prakash SJ reflects on […]
Today, 26th September, is the 107th World Day of Migrants and Refugees which is observed by the Catholic Church. Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ reflects on our attitudes towards the ‘other’ people. Read on: On 23 September 2021, two civilians were killed and several others including nine policemen were injured in violence during an eviction drive […]
The 87th Executive committee of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), culminated with the appointment of coordinators for the education, health, social service and media apostolate. The decision was taken during the conference’s 87th executive committee meeting held September 21-22. Salesian Father Joseph Manipadam, currently the coordinator for Education and Culture of Don […]
