The demolition of a Catholic Church in the South Delhi region on Tuesday (July 12) morning has prompted widespread concern and condemnation among the Christian community. The Little Flower Church in Lado Sarai, belonging to the Syro-Malabar rite was demolished by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation citing encroachment on government’s agricultural land “by instalment of […]
The Prison Ministry of India (PMI) should go beyond visits to the prisons, intercessions, and organizing events on feast days and festivals. This was the thrust of views at a condolence event for Jesuit Human Rights Defender Stan Swamy organized by India’s foremost Catholic prison outreach programme with a presence in 27 States and union […]
It was a sweltering day in May, and Patna city was in the throes of the second wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Sister Dorothy Fernandez PBVM , the only Presentation sister in the state of Bihar, was knocking at the doors of the home for the destitute women in Padre ki Haveli. The home is […]
Every evening, a group of 15 college graduates gather at the Newman school in a remote hilly village to learn a language with 48 vowels and 31 consonants, with four different tones. They are inspired by the vision of a middle-aged farmer, who wants to save his native dialect from extinction. Fifty-five year old Wanglung […]
It never ceases to amaze, how a tiny community works like yeast in the dough to give rise to nutritious and flavoursome bread! The Salesians of Don Bosco and their collaborators have managed to reach out with relief to thousands of people in Southern India and elsewhere during the Covid-19 pandemic. The tribal communities in […]
The passion of a pioneering Catholic nun for Guwahati’s third gender, championing their dignity, rights and recognition, has resulted in the first Church approved shelter for the Hijra community in Assam.The Catholic Church has started its first safe house for the marginalized transgender community in the Northeastern State of Assam this month. The opening of […]
North Bengal’s only Catholic run community radio broadcaster joins nine other non-government organisations in the Darjeeling Hills in a 15 week Wellbeing campaign to combat Covid-19. A group of ten Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) in the hills have come together to fight COVID-19 with a 15-week Wellbeing Campaign. Their slogans include: ‘Bring Back the Smiles,’ and […]
Jesuit father Stan is to be moved to Catholic-run Hospital for two weeks. The Bombay High Court on Friday (May 28) has directed the Maharashtra government to transfer the under-trial Jesuit Father Stan Swamy, 84, to the Holy Family Hospital from Taloja Central Jail and treat him. Jesuit father Cedric Prakash in a message said, […]
Will Cremation become an acceptable practice for Indian Christians? Graveyards are filling up, and congestion in the existing cemeteries have sparked heated debates. Some radical priests even want to dig up heritage tombs and make space for the dear departed. It’s interesting how the corona virus may soon break down resistance to the idea of […]
If it was Father Gaston Roberge, who started Chitrabani in Calcutta and is known as the Communication Guru of Eastern India, it is Father Isaac Alappat who is the communication Guru of South India. The Catholic Church in South India bid farewell to one of its ablest communication gurus on Wednesday May 5th. Fr. Isaac […]
Even as India continues to report a daily covid-19 infection rate of over 350,000 and the media is replete with distress stories from all over the country, the Good News is that several Catholic dioceses and institutions have come forward to help the affected in whatever way they can. Only yesterday, somebody sent us the […]
He’s 98, ‘ survived imprisonment and hardship for being a Catholic and now he’s China’s ‘rock-star Corona Virus Survivor ‘. Bishop Joseph Zhu Baoyu of Nanyang, China, is 98 years old. He fell ill with pneumonia from Covid-19 (the coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China) on February 3. On February 12 he tested negative, and […]
