Lund: In a joint declaration signed for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Catholic and Lutheran leaders apologized for division in the Church and pledged to work for greater unity. “Fifty years of sustained and fruitful ecumenical dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans have helped us to overcome many differences, andContinue Reading
Dhaka: At least 15 temples along with hundreds of Hindu community houses were vandalised and looted by an unruly mob in Bangladesh’s Brahmanbaria district, in the aftermath of a social media post allegedly showing disrespect towards Islam. Police have filed two cases against more than 1,000 people over Sundays attack,Continue Reading
Bengaluru: With more and more people preferring to lace their Deepawali celebrations with social concerns, an east Bengaluru school got its students to celebrate the festival of lights with over 500 children from seven different orphanages on Sunday evening. Students staying in the school hostel joined the children from orphanagesContinue Reading
Surrounded by charred walls and in front of a ruined altar, dozens of Iraqi Christians celebrated mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Qaraqosh on Sunday for the first time since it was recaptured from Islamic State. Church bells rang out in the town on the southeastern approachesContinue Reading
New Delhi: As many as 6.54 crore people in the age group of 5-19 years in the country have never attended any school while another 4.49 crore have dropped out of schools in the last decade. According to the 2011 Census data, there is 38.01 crore population in the ageContinue Reading
Bishop Joseph Kalathiparambil is the current secretary o the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant PeopleContinue Reading
An Indian working at a company in Mussafah sketches some wonder works of art during his free time and all this while lying in his bed as there is no place to sit in his room shared with eight others. And despite earning a Dhs 1,400 paycheck, this didn’t stopContinue Reading
CHENNAI: Stella Maris College, one of the oldest women’s colleges in India, was conferred the ‘Pride of the Catholic Church Award’ by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) Office for Education and Culture, New Delhi, for being the ‘first and best’ in the country in implementing the National CatholicContinue Reading
NewYork: Diwali was commemorated for the first time at the United Nations, with the world body’s imposing headquarters here lit up especially on the occasion of the Indian festival of lights. The facade of the UN headquarters was lit in bright hues and the words ‘Happy Diwali’, along with theContinue Reading
Towns and villages in central Italy have been hit by an earthquake for the fourth time in three months. The 6.6-magnitude quake – Italy’s strongest in decades – struck close to the region where nearly 300 people were killed by a quake in August. This time no-one appears to haveContinue Reading