By Matters India Reporter Mumbai: Father Cajetan Menezes, who is director of the Bombay archdiocese’s Snehalaya Family Service Center, has been appointed as the interim executive secretary, Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) Office of Laity and Family, and Women’s Desk. He succeeds Wendy M Louis who held the officeContinue Reading
By Malini Manjoly The eight well-functioning cooperatives of Navjyoti, a non-governmental organization of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth have changed the lives of many people especially women and children in Surkhet, West Nepal. The cooperatives are solely managed by its 1375 shareholders. They avail loans on the basis ofContinue Reading
Police invaded Catholic churches and fired tear gas during Mass in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday (December 31) as protests against the rule of President Joseph Kabila intensified. One witness at St. Michael’s Church in central Kinshasa told AFP that officers broke up the Mass and arrested altar boys,Continue Reading
NEW DELHI: The outpatient department (OPD) services at private hospitals across the country have remained affected on January 2 after the Indian Medical Association (IMA) called for a 12-hour shutdown to protest what it describes as the “anti-people and anti-patient” National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill, 2017, that seeks to replace theContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: Utsavam 2018, conceived as an attempt to rejuvenate the traditional folk art forms of Kerala, will be organized by the Kerala Tourism Department from January 6 to 12, 2018, across all 14 districts of Kerala, said Kadakampally Surendran, Minister for Tourism, Cooperation and Devaswom, today. The festival, organised inContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: Eight activists including one nun has been injured after a protest march taken out by the Kerala Latin Catholic Women’s Association to the official residence of Forest Minister K. Raju turned unruly. The demonstration was organised in protest against the destruction of a wooden cross that had been found toContinue Reading
Pope Francis is having cards printed and distributed showing a 1945 photo of victims of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki along with the words the fruit of war.” The photo captures a boy carrying his dead brother on his shoulders while he waits for his turn at the crematory. ItContinue Reading
Bengaluru: The first New Year baby girl born at 00:05 on Monday at a civic hospital in the city’s western suburb would get free education up to the degree level from the city civic body, said an official. “The first baby girl born five minutes after Sunday midnight in theContinue Reading
Yangon: The Christian communities in Myanmar, Catholic and Protestant, have publicly celebrated Christmas in the streets of Yangon, for the first time in 50 years. In the past, Christmas was strictly confined within the walls of churches, several liturgies, feasts, processions, took place in the city, especially from 23 toContinue Reading
Pope Francis has recommended jettisoning life’s “useless baggage” in 2018, including what he called “empty chatter” and banal consumerism, and focusing instead on building a peaceful and welcoming world, particularly for refugees and migrants. Francis offered his reflections on paring down non-essentials as he celebrated New Year’s Day Mass MondayContinue Reading