Jose Kavi

Jose Kavi is the editor-in-chief of Matters India, a news portal started in March 2013 to focus on religious and social issues in India. He had headed the India operations of Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN) for 25 years until his retirement in 2012. He began his journalism career in 1982 after leaving the Society of Jesus as a scholastic (seminarian). He had worked with South Asian Religious News and United News of India, a national secular news agency, before joining UCAN. He is married and lives in New Delhi with his wife, son and daughter.

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Nun sits at table and points at paperwork as one woman signs something. Several other women are in line.

Dec 12, 2023

Q&A with Sr. Seli Thomas, a winner of inaugural Sisters Anti-Trafficking Awards

Sr. Seli Thomas, a member of the Sisters of Mary Immaculate from India, works as a lawyer, working to rescue women from networks that profit from sexual and labor trafficking.

A nun is consoled during a Sept. 13, 2018, protest in Cochin, India. The protest was to demand justice after a former religious superior accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar of raping her. A court acquitted Mulakkal of all charges Jan. 14. (CNS)

Feb 07, 2022

Catholic women demand church accountability, after Bishop Mulakkal's acquittal

A national forum of Catholic women in India demanded "absolute transparency and accountability" in the way the church handles sex abuse cases, via a letter sent to the church hierarchy in the Vatican and India.

Cardinal Oswald Gracias (foreground) of Mumbai, India, speaks at a Vatican meeting on the protection of minors in the church in February 2019. (CNS/Vatican Media)

Jan 24, 2022

Leader of India religious calls on cardinal to reach out to nun in rape case

After Bishop Franco Mulakkal's acquittal, Sr. Mary Nirmalini tells Cardinal Oswald Gracias that church authorities should, "at least now, try and reach out to the survivor and her companions and offer support to them."

Jan 14, 2022

Timeline in the first case of a Catholic bishop in India charged in the rape of a nun

The case against Bishop Franco Mulakkal, which began in 2018 after a nun accused him of raping her multiple times, went to trial in August 2020. Here is a timeline of significant events.

A woman religious is consoled during a Sept. 13, 2018, protest in Cochin, India, demanding justice after a nun accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar of raping her. (CNS/Reuters/Sivaram V)

Jan 13, 2022

Key figures in the Bishop Mulakkal case

The case against Bishop Franco Mulakkal, which began in 2018 after a nun accused him of raping her multiple times, went to trial in August 2020. Here are some of the key figures in the case.

Dec 10, 2021

Catholic women in India demand transparent study into nuns' suicide cases

A letter signed by 89 Catholic women, including women religious, asks the Conference for the Religious in India to look into a suicides by Catholic sisters, the most recent on Nov. 30 by 30-year-old nun in the chapel of her convent in the northern Indian state of Punjab.

People hold a banner during a July 6 prayer service for Jesuit Fr. Stan Swamy in Mumbai, India, the day after he died at a hospital. (CNS/Reuters/Francis Mascarenhas)

Aug 04, 2021

Death of Fr. Swamy, tribal rights defender, motivates India's Catholic religious

Fr. Stanislaus Lourduswamy, popularly called Stan Swamy, an octogenarian Jesuit human rights defender who died in July while in custody, has emerged as the new icon for Catholic religious in India.