On December 5, in a press statement, Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore strongly condemned the defacement of the statue of revered Lingayat seer Shivakumar Swami, calling the act “baseless and reprehensible.”
Alphonsus Mathias, Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore Archdiocese, passed away on July 10, 2024, at 5.20 p.m. at St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore, Karnataka, south India. He was 96 years old.
