Syro-Malabar synod urges dioceses to set up cremation facilities in India

The Synod of the Bishops of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church has recommended setting up crematoriums in dioceses amid the worsening Covid-19 pandemic. “Though burying the dead bodies is the practice in the Church, the (Eastern-rite) canon law permits cremation in times of pandemic,” said Cardinal George Alencherry, major archbishop of the Church. The synod said... Read More

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August 20, 2020

Prameel Joseph rejoices as ordination dream is fulfilled

Prameel Joseph from St Luke’s in Peterborough has fulfilled a calling he has felt for many years after he was ordained to the diaconate by the Bishop of East Anglia at St John’s Cathedral. When he was younger, Prameel, who is from India, joined the Rosminian Fathers religious congregation. During a discernment at the end... Read More

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June 24, 2020

Beware of ‘radical nationalists’ trying to use Christianity, Jesuit writes

Using religion to prop up an exaggerated sense of nationalism perverts healthy patriotism in its attempts to solidify national identity by excluding some members of society, said an essay in an influential Jesuit journal. “In some countries, a form of religious-cultural nationalism is back in vogue. Religion is exploited both to obtain popular support and... Read More

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May 5, 2020

Sacristan sentenced to life in prison for murder of Indian shrine rector

An Indian court sentenced former sacristan Johny Vattaparamban, 54, to life imprisonment for the 2018 murder of the rector of popular St Thomas Shrine at Malayattoor, in southern Kerala state. The court also imposed a fine of $1,321 on Vattaparamban, convicted of stabbing Fr Xavier Thelakkat on 1st March 2018, as he descended from the... Read More

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March 31, 2020

Stranded migrants, lack of food: in Indian lockdown, poor suffer

The three-week Covid-19 lockdown of India’s 1.37 billion people has stranded millions of domestic migrant workers and left people scrambling for food and other basics amid the ensuing harsh and often violent crackdown by police. “Especially when I look at my poor brothers and sisters, I definitely feel that they must be thinking, what kind... Read More

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March 27, 2020

Responding to Covid-19: Vision from the frontlines

In Guwahati, a sprawling city on the Brahmaputra River in the Indian state of Assam, Sr Rose Paite has adapted her tailoring school in response to the looming threat of Covid-19 over surrounding slum and tea garden communities. The school is normally run as a community development initiative, offering skills training to local women and... Read More

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March 25, 2020

India exemplifies problems facing Southeast Asia as Covid-19 spreads

South and Southeast Asia have a combined population of over 2 billion people, and India could be an example of the whole region at large. Like India, many countries are characterised by huge cities containing neighbourhoods that contain millions of people living close together in often highly unhygienic conditions. Even the most basic protocols for... Read More

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January 17, 2020

Syro-Malabar synod asks Indian state to distribute minority grants fairly

The synod of India’s Syro-Malabar Church has appealed to the Kerala state government to stop discriminating against Christians when it distributes benefits intended for religious minorities. Ucanews.org reported that at the end of its assembly in Cochin, the bishops said 80 per cent of the federal grants meant for religious minorities “went to one minority... Read More

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October 2, 2019

Christians across India ‘living in fear’

Christians across India are “living in fear” because of acts of state-led violence and oppression, says the bishop of a region still recovering from one of the country’s worst outbreaks of persecution. Speaking to leading Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, Bishop Kishore Kumar Kujur of Rourkela described how the government in India... Read More

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August 7, 2019

Mumbai Catholics open churches for thousands stranded by flooding

Catholic churches and institutions in flood-hit Mumbai opened their doors to accommodate thousands of people stranded in the city by heavy rain and flooded streets. Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India, and Syro-Malabar Bishop Thomas Elavanal of Kalyan, India, asked their parish priests on 5th August to help stranded and homeless people as heavy rain... Read More

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Syro-Malabar synod urges dioceses to set up cremation facilities in India

Prameel Joseph rejoices as ordination dream is fulfilled

Beware of ‘radical nationalists’ trying to use Christianity, Jesuit writes

Sacristan sentenced to life in prison for murder of Indian shrine rector

Stranded migrants, lack of food: in Indian lockdown, poor suffer

Responding to Covid-19: Vision from the frontlines

India exemplifies problems facing Southeast Asia as Covid-19 spreads

Syro-Malabar synod asks Indian state to distribute minority grants fairly

Christians across India ‘living in fear’

Mumbai Catholics open churches for thousands stranded by flooding

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