By Santosh Digal Manila: Educating poor dropout students and street children is for their better future, says an Indian nun working in the Philippines. “Street children and other school dropout should get proper education to build their lives and become part of mainstream society,” Sister Kochutheresia Charamghat, a member ofContinue Reading
By Barbara Bustamante Santiago – This Aug. 15 will mark 90 years since the Sacramentine Sisters of Don Orione were founded to offer something very particular for the salvation of the world: their blindness. They are a community of blind nuns consecrated to perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament andContinue Reading
Vatican City: As the city of Rome and much of Italy experiences a severe drought, the Vatican has turned off its fountains in an effort to preserve water and show solidarity with the city, which may be forced to ration water to about 1 million of the city’s residents. AsContinue Reading
By: Bhavya Dore A jubilant Katy Gandevia passed around a box of celebratory sweets she had received in her office at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai. “That,” she said, gesturing towards the sweets, “was to celebrate the birth of the 102nd baby.” The baby in question hadContinue Reading
his week, the saree is back in focus but for not necessarily for all the right reasonsContinue Reading
By: James Norton It should go without saying that India is a complicated place, a churning cauldron of languages, ethnicities, castes, and religions bubbling atop and throughout one another in a perplexing mass that we call, for the sake of convenience, a “nation.” But to many Western readers, the story ofContinue Reading
Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has demanded the United States return church bells seized by American forces in a bloody campaign more than a century ago, in another blast at his country’s traditional ally. American forces took three bells from the Catholic church of Balangiga town on the eastern islandContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: The Mar Thoma Syrian Church in Kerala is organising an awareness seminar for the uplift of transgender community in the state on July 29. The Church has already launched a comprehensive programme for the education and development of the marginalised group and to impart them training to find outContinue Reading
162,093 Catholics left the Church in Germany during 2016—down from 181,925 in 2015, according to statistics released by the bishops’ conference on July 21. 28.5% of Germans are Catholic, and the Catholic population stands at 23,582,000, down from 27,533,000 in 1996. 537 parishes closed in 2016. Over the past twoContinue Reading
The Ahiara diocese has been in disarray since December 2012Continue Reading