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By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar: The Church in India with its extensive network can resolve the problems facing laborers and migrant workers, an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), has told a seminar. The Catholic Church will address distress internal labor migration through its links with dioceses,” FatherContinue Reading

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By George Ayalloor Madrid: Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, will beatify 60 martyrs in Spain, including two Vincentian priests who had worked in India’s Odisha state. Fathers José María Fernández Sánchez and Pedro Pascual García Martín were part of the first two groupsContinue Reading

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When Ganesh Devy, a former professor of English, embarked on a search for India’s languages, he expected to walk into a graveyard, littered with dead and dying mother tongues. Instead, he says, he walked into a “dense forest of voices”, a noisy Tower of Babel in one of the world’sContinue Reading

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Srinagar: For the first time in five decades, a church bell rang on Sunday at the largest Catholic church in Kashmir. Members of Srinagar’s tiny Christian community assembled at the 120-year-old Holy Family Catholic Church and celebrated the installation of the new bell, weighing 105 kilograms (231 pounds). The British-eraContinue Reading

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Soda Village: As the sun begins to set on the village of Soda in western India, Chhavi Rajawat walks through the dusty streets, stopping to chat with residents who emerge from the wooden doorways of their homes to greet her. Folding their hands together and bending to touch 39-year-old Rajawat’sContinue Reading