Cardinal Gracias urges Modi to invite Pope to India
2018-03-21
The cardinal had a one-to-one meeting with Prime Minister ModiContinue Reading
Kerala yoga model to be adopted by 500 Indian villages
2018-03-21
Jeemon Jacob Thiruvananthapuram: The Kunnamthanam village in Pathanamthitta district of Kerala, ruled by Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPI-M), has learned that practicing yoga helps people to check lifestyle diseases effectively. And yoga is a cost-effective pill for many ills. After a year, the village model has been recognized byContinue Reading
Procession of Saints at Goa-Velha sees the rise of women pall-bearers
2018-03-20
Kimberly Colaco St Andrew’s Church in Goa Velha witnessed a procession of 31 life-sized statues of the saints of the Franciscan order on Monday. And what set this year’s Procession of Saints apart from the earlier ones was the sheer amount of women pall-bearers present at the scene! Though traditionally,Continue Reading
Shooter dead, 2 wounded in US school shooting
2018-03-20
A student with a handgun shot two classmates inside his Maryland high school Tuesday before he was fatally wounded during a confrontation with a school resource officer, a sheriff said. The officer and the student both fired a single shot at that point, and it wasn’t immediately clear whether heContinue Reading
How Islam, Christianity and Hinduism View Living Will and Passive Euthanasia
2018-03-20
New Delhi: The Supreme Court may have paved the way for passive euthanasia in terminal cases by allowing ‘living wills’, but in a country where religious ramifications hang heavy on an individual’s daily life, can the question of when and how to die be exempt? A living will is aContinue Reading
Karnataka government agrees to recommend separate religion for Lingayats
2018-03-20
New Delhi: Ahead of Assembly polls in the state, the Congress government in Karnataka Monday agreed to recommend that Lingayats be considered part of a separate religion, ANI reported. The 12 th -century social reformer, Basavanna, founded the Lingayat community, which had distanced itself from Hindu Veerashaivas because the latterContinue Reading
Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh account for most crimes against elders
2018-03-20
The crimes included assaults, cheating and robberyContinue Reading
Land sale row: Protester assaulted outside church
2018-03-20
Joseph Varghese was celebrating his 57 birthday outside Edappally churchContinue Reading
39 Indian hostages in Iraq dead: Sushma Swaraj
2018-03-20
ISIS kidnapped them in 2014Continue Reading
Prostitution is torture : Pope Francis
2018-03-20
Rome: Pope Francis asked forgiveness Monday for all Christians who buy sex from women, saying men who frequent prostitutes are criminals with a “sick mentality” who think that women exist to be exploited. “This isn’t making love. This is torturing a woman. Let’s not confuse the terms,” Francis insisted. TheContinue Reading