On a sunlit day in mid-December, humid and ripe as South India winters tend to be, six Carmelite nuns invited the transgender activist Vijayaraja Mallika over for tea. They sat inside the Provincial House of the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel (CMC) to discuss Mallika’s new venture: a schoolContinue Reading
Producer Kumar Raj is now setting his sights on a Hollywood film based on the life of Mother TeresaContinue Reading
Ahmedabad: The stream of mourners at the home of Ibrahim Belim has not thinned since the weekend, when a crowd of about 5,000 people attacked the main Muslim neighbourhood in the village of Vadavali in north Gujarat Mr Belim, 50, was stabbed and killed. Fourteen others, all Muslims, were injuredContinue Reading
The Churches to stick to men only rule for the ritualContinue Reading
Sreedeep Alavil from Kannur district in the southern India state of Kerala has been chosen to the coveted Google Hall of Fame. Sreedeep was given the recognition for spotting a bug known as Cross-site Scripting (XSS), wherein a hacker can execute malicious scripts to a legitimate website or web applications.Continue Reading
The Daughters of St. Anne, Ranchi, is the first congregation founded by a tribal sister for tribal girls in eastern IndiaContinue Reading
Milan, Italy: Pope Francis celebrated the Feast of the Annunciation in Milan, telling mass-goers that even today God is still searching for hearts like Mary’s that are open to welcoming his invitation and providing hope, even when it’s hard. As in the past, “God continues to look for allies, he continuesContinue Reading
St Mary’s Catholic Church parish priest hails spirit of tolerance that has helped the community thrive since the church was inaugurated in 1967Continue Reading
Lalita had objected to the cutting of trees in her farm for the widening of a road Continue Reading
By: Matt Hadro. Years before Pope Francis’ ecology encyclical was published, a Trappist monastery in the State of Virginia in USA went back to its spiritual roots by embracing environmental stewardship. “This really is a re-founding,” Fr. James Orthmann of Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, Va. told Catholic News Agency, aContinue Reading