Category: Indian Spirituality

Details provided on caste-based discrimination within church in India. Posted on March 4, 2016, 5:06 PMDalit Catholics in India have complained to the visiting Jesuit superior general about discrimination within the church during his visit to the country. Jesuit Father...

Published on: 11:42 pm, March 2, 2016 Story By: Mattersindia.com Bengaluru: In a laudable step, about sixty nuns from various congregations pledged to donate their eyes in a program organized at the Indian Institute of Spirituality in Bengaluru recently. More than just pledging...

He asserted that the ancient techniques of breathing, meditation and postures have nothing to do with religion. Posted on March 1, 2016, 9:15 PM – Agra (UCAN):  A Catholic priest on Monday opened a yoga and nature cure centre in the...

Our Church Leaders must protest. But on what? Agnes of God? Pure blood Christianity? Tearing the mystical body of Christ? The Church Act on property? Shall we do it together as the one and only mystical body of Christ? It has become...

How Holy is the Church in India (Note: On February 24, 2016 Archbishop Leo Cornelio of Bhopal said in a statement to Ucanews that the government should formulate "measures to eradicate" unemployment among Christians so "that the trust and confidence...

By Dharmendra Jore, in mid-day, Posted 23-Feb-2016                     A Mumbai trust is reissuing a book written by Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, brother of Veer Savarkar and one of the 5 founders of...

Published on: 7:38 pm, February 24, 2016 Story By: Mattersindia reporter Bangalore: The Association of Franciscan Families of India (AFFI) has launched a nationwide plan to observe the Year of Mercy. The association with 50,000 members spread over 164 provinces of 54 congregations...

Father Leon Cruz is among some 1000 priests Pope Francis selected as Missionaries of Mercy. Story by UCAN- Posted on February 23, 2016, 5:56 PM Mumbai: Father Leon Cruz,the only Indian Salesian appointed as a Missionary of Mercy on Ash Wednesday, has...

Published on: 3:25 pm, February 23, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com Mumbai: Jesus Christ was a Tamil Brahmin and Christianity was a Hindu cult, claims a 70-year-old book that is being reissued this week by a rightwing Hindu group in Mumbai. The book, “Christ...

By: C. M. Paul – Matters India: Published on  10:24 pm, February 21, 2016 Mumbai — The film, ‘Jesus of Nazareth’, by award-winning Italian director, Franco Zeffirelli, is dubbed into Marathi and is now available online for Lent 2016 in four parts depicting the agony, death...

Over 25 Members of 6  AP Churches Meet By  Fr Dr Anthoniraj Thumma, Executive Secretary of FTC          FTC GENERAL BODY MEETING:Held on Feb. 17, 2016, at St. John’s Regional Seminary, Hyderabad                       (Note: What  is noteworthy  in this meet...

Dear Dr James, Thank you for publicizing in CCV this historic moment of the Church in India. I have also read Archbishop Bharanikulangara’s response to you. Laity4Unity believes we need to take a step back from this very emotive issue –...

Delhi Orientals: Rome denies general permission  Published on: 3:49 am, February 19, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com reporter New Delhi: The Vatican congregation for the Oriental Churches has resolved a controversy among Oriental Catholics living in the Indian capital region. It has favorably considered...

Suspects plead innocence, appeal to bishops for help. Kochi (UCAN): Two jailed Catholic priests, accused of conspiring to murder a seminary rector in southern India, have appealed to the national bishops' conference to help prove their innocence. In a letter seen...

Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios' dedication to the poor can be an example for nation building. New Delhi (UCAN): The Indian vice president has hailed the late Syro-Malankara Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios of Trivandrum as an example of selfless service.(inthe pic: Cardinal Baselios...

Environmental pollution is the biggest threat faced by mankind, the participants noted. Maramon (UCAN): The Maramon Convention started on the banks of the Pampa River in Kerala with a call to do away with the impurities clogging the environment as well...

Secunderabad (Matters India): As part of the Catholic ‘World Day of the Sick’, the Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI) organized a blood donation camp in Secunderabad on Thursday. CHAI has been organizing such camps from the past few days...

Story By: Malini Manjaly Our Mother-Father in Heaven? –  Published in Matters India, February 13, 2016,                             (Note: We say Holy Mother Church to highlight God’s unbreakable deep love(even if your mother forgets you I will not) for humans. Similarly...

Curtsy: THE LAITYTUDE Recently there were various articles in the secular press about environmental friendly burials. The reasons given were plenty and ranged from saving the environment and being easy on the purse. There is no doubt that the environment...

Patna (Story By: Jose Kalapura): Caste-based atrocities and targeted communal violence have become common in Indian society. Both have some commonalities and distinct differences, said Teesta Setalvad, well known social activist and campaigner for communal harmony. “Indian society and polity have...