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By George Kommattam KOZHIKODE, August 20, 2026: The Catholic Church mourns the passing of Father Jacob Ceasarius Nalpathamkalam, a distinguished formator, theologian, missionary, educator and founding leader of his Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI) congregation’s St. Thomas Province. He died August 16, at the age of 91. For more than

By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, August 19, 2026: A violent mob attack on Pastor Joy Sutradhar, a veteran Christian leader serving Satgachia in Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal for over two decades, has left his family traumatized and the local community shaken. According to reports, a group of 20–25

By George Kommattam Kozhikode, August 19, 2026: Eight years ago, Sudheesh V. Sreeram fell ill while driving his auto-rickshaw, a three-wheeler taxi, in Kozhikode, a town in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala. The doctors advised him to undergo a pacemaker implantation immediately. “I had no savings, even though I

By Purushottam Nayak Thrissur, August 19, 2026: Archbishop Raphael Cheenath, former Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar and a courageous shepherd during the 2008 Kandhamal violence, was commemorated on his 10th death anniversary at his native parish of Pallissery in Thrissur. A memorial Mass was celebrated on August 12, presided over by Thrissur

By Matters India Reporter BENGALURU, August 18, 2026: The Archdiocese of Bangalore has called for an independent judicial inquiry into the deaths of three men allegedly shot by Forest Department personnel in the Chikkallur Reserved Forest area of Karnataka’s Hanur taluk. In a statement dated August 17, Archbishop Peter Machado