Mumbai: A fire that started at a rooftop pub hosting a birthday party spread rapidly through the building, killing 14 people, most of them women, shortly after midnight in a posh Mumbai locality, officials said Thursday. The fire, which also injured 21 people, started after 12.30 am in the “1Continue Reading
New Delhi: The senior nursing officer at AIIMS, New Delhi, gave up her life for the conviction. Sapna Tracy, 43, chose to deliver her eighth baby even after medical recommendations of terminating the same. She delivered the baby in 2015, and 2017 cancer took her life. She died on MondayContinue Reading
Alappuzha: The Holy Family Latin Catholic Church at Karichal does not exist for Christians alone. It is a beacon of hope for Hindus and Muslims also as it fulfils the dreams of many poor families by arranging the marriages of their children. It provides them financial aid and also arrangesContinue Reading
New Delhi: A book questioning the conviction of seven Christians in the sensational murder of Swami Laxmanananda in Odishas Kandhamal in 2008, was today released by veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar. The revised edition of Anto Akkara’s book Who Killed Laxmanananda? also challenged the “Christian conspiracy” theory behind the killing ofContinue Reading
Matthew Thommen It’s called Bethlehem. It’s a home for the homeless, a refuge for those rejected elsewhere, and it started, well, not in a manger, but in a poultry shed. The Bethlehem Abhaya Bhavan was set up 20 years ago by Ms Mary Esthappan, a mother of three who livesContinue Reading
Panaji: Archbishop of Goa and Daman, Filipe Neri Ferrao Thursday referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “historic” UN General Assembly address of 2014 in which he spoke about the country’s philosophy of ‘vasudhaiv kutumbakam’ (the world is one family), during his annual Christmas speech. Fr Ferrao addressed the annual get-togetherContinue Reading
The Diocese of Orange, California, received an early Christmas present in the form of a new bishop on 19 December, when a man who entered the country as a young refugee from Vietnam in 1973 became its new auxiliary bishop. Bishop Thanh Thai Nguyen, 64, became the second priest bornContinue Reading
Kochi: A council of priests under the Syro Malabar Church, Presbyterium, has decided to write to the Pope for an inquiry into a land deal that reportedly brought losses of millions of rupees to the church and demanding the removal of church head Cardinal George Alencherry. A church committee hadContinue Reading
The bill was passed after the House rejected a string of amendments moved by various Opposition membersContinue Reading
Thiruvanathapuram: Joseph Pulikunnel, a veteran Christian social reformer and a former faculty in economics and former member of the Kerala University Senate passed away on Thursday. He was 85. The last rites will take place at the houses premises at Bharananganam on Friday at 11 am. He was the directorContinue Reading