A stamp honoring Mother Teresa won the 2017 St. Gabriel award for the best religious stamp issued in 2016. Kosovo issued this 2.10 stamp Aug. 15, 2016, to honor her canonization as a saint on Sept. 4 of that year (Scott 311). The design by Dijana Toskas and Hilmijeta ApukContinue Reading
Fr. Cedric Prakash sj On 14 November, speaking at a function in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, the UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath vehemently stated, “I believe that after Independence, the biggest lie in India is the word secular…the people who gave birth to this word and who use it, should apologise. NoContinue Reading
Generosity has gotten itself a bad name. Introduced to most of us in preachy, didactic Moral Science textbooks with terribly sanctimonious illustrations, being generous was often viewed as a faraway, overtly pious ideal that no youngster would like to be caught aspiring to – lest he be mocked at forContinue Reading
At least 235 people were killed and scores more injured when gunmen stormed a mosque in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, setting off explosives and firing on worshipers during Friday prayers, authorities said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the assault in the town of Bir Abd, about 25 milesContinue Reading
Rome :The Chinese Communist Party has ordered travel agencies not to send tour groups to visit the Vatican and St. Peter’s Basilica because “there are no diplomatic relations” between China and the Holy See. In an article published by Radio Free Asia yesterday several agencies that confirm that they haveContinue Reading
Body was recovered in Oman damContinue Reading
A list of statues and monuments that should be immediately withdrawn from Skopje’s city center is in the hands of Culture Minister of fYROMacedonia, Robert Alagjozovski, with the final decisions to be taken by prime minister Zoran Zaev. The list was put together by a working group of the ministryContinue Reading
Myanmar and Bangladesh have signed an agreement to potentially repatriate hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have fled the country, a Burmese official has said. “We are ready to take them back as soon as possible after Bangladesh sends the forms back to us,” said Myint Kyaing, a permanentContinue Reading
Kannur: In a first, a woman has been inducted as a pilot in the Indian Navy. Shubhangi Swaroop, who hails from Uttar Pradesh, will soon be flying Maritime Reconnaissance aircraft. Three other women cadets, Astha Segal from New Delhi, Roopa A from Puducherry and Sakthi Maya S from Kerala, alsoContinue Reading
From the courtyard of a Catholic girls’ school outside Bangkok, Sister Ana Rosa Sivori is eagerly awaiting a visit to the region from her second cousin — Pope Francis. Six years his junior, the sprightly 75-year-old nun has watched from abroad as her cousin transforms from the “shy” kid sheContinue Reading