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A 16-year-old peasant girl will be beatified as a martyr in Slovakia, seven decades after she was shot in front of her family for resisting rape by a drunken Soviet soldier. Anna Kolesarova “embodies the faithful layperson living in their family, regularly receiving sacraments, praying the rosary and approaching GodContinue Reading

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By Anirban Bhattacharya and Nandini Dey It has been ten years since the sheltered calmness of the plateaus of Kandhamal witnessed one of the bloodiest episodes of communal violence unleashed on Christian minorities in India. Dalits and tribals found themselves under siege from mobs led by Hindutva fanatics. Dismembered limbs,Continue Reading

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By Purushottam Nayak Kandhamal: Catholics in Odisha, especially the Kandhamal survivors, have organized for the victims of floods in Kerala. “The people of Kerala were the first to support us during the Kandhamal violence of 2007-2008,” said Father Manoranjan Singh, one of the three Catholic priests who celebrated Mass onContinue Reading