Jesuit Father Joseph L. Roche, an American missionary and a distinguished teacher who trained generations of religion teachers and catechists at the Ateneo de Manila University, the Loyola School of Theology and the Formation Institute for Religion Educators (FIRE), died on November 28, 2022.
As the year approaches Christmas, Christians in India continue to bear the onslaught of targeted violence for their faith. The year 2022 sees the greatest increase in the number of incidents of violence against Christians in India, compared to 505 incidents of violence against Christians in 2021 and 511 in 2022 through November.
Archbishop Thomas D’Souza of Kolkata urged major seminary rectors to guide seminarians to reach out to families and villages with a missionary thrust for freedom in Jesus.
The national convention and Annual General Body meeting of Catholic Communicators forum, SIGNIS India, held at Gyana Deep Bhavan, diocesan Pastoral Centre, Jaipur from 23- 24 November 2022, elected new office bearers.
Northeast Indian Christian leaders denounced the alarmist news that is being spread among people in connection with the issue of ‘forced conversion’, as false and expressed great anxiety about some of the painful developments in our society these days.
The Catholic Church in Mizoram celebrated the Platinum jubilee of the official presence of Priests in Mizoram, at the first Church of Christ the King, now the cathedral. The chief guest Cardinal Gracias, said “let Christ be the real king of every home, king of Aizawl and King of Mizoram."
