Palmerston North, October 9, 2019: Catholics of Palmerston North diocese in New Zealand have questioned the circumstances leading to the acceptance of the resignation of their Bishop Charles Drennan by Pope Francis. Pope Francis on October 5 accepted Bishop Drennan’s resignation after a young woman complained about his unacceptable behaviorContinue Reading
Eight years before Charles Lindbergh’s epic non-stop, solo flight from New York to Paris, the British aviators, John Alcock and Arthur Brown, made the first transatlantic flight in June 1919, from St John’s in Newfoundland to Ireland. It was a milestone in the history of aviation. Alcock and Brown wereContinue Reading
Matters India reporter London, Oct. 7, 2019: A Mother Teresa of Calcutta research scholar in the United Kingdom was honoured with a prestigious award from Albanian government in London on 2nd October 2019. The Ambassador of Albania to the UK, His Excellency Qirjako Qirko, handed over the Albanian Nation’s AmbassadorContinue Reading
Christians across India are “living in fear” because of acts of state-led violence and oppression, says the bishop of a region still recovering from one of the country’s worst outbreaks of persecution. Speaking to leading Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, Bishop Kishore Kumar Kujur of Rourkela describedContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Rome, October 4, 2019: Women religious in India need to be empowered to help the less privileged, voiceless and powerless in the Indian society, says Sister Shalini Mulackal, a leading theologian. “Women religious are not in a position to resist because their life is very much dependedContinue Reading
NAZARETH, Colombia : On a Sunday morning, Deacon Ferney Pereira was leading a prayer service in this small village’s Catholic Church. After reading a passage from the Gospel of Luke, the 30-year-old deacon stepped down from the altar, walked among his congregation and delivered an animated sermon in Tikuna, theContinue Reading
Islamabad, Oct 4, 2019: For all its criticism of India for denying rights to minorities, Pakistan”s parliament has shot down a minority Christian member”s constitutional amendment bill seeking to allow non-Muslims to become Prime Minister and President of Pakistan. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been strident in his attackContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Yangon, October 1, 2019 — In a statement released on 1st October, eve of 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi the apostle of peace and non-violence, Cardinal Charles Bo archbishop of Yangon has appealed to the country’s religious leaders to speak out against the atrocitiesContinue Reading
Tokyo, Sep 29, 2019: In the age of mass communication, the Catholic Church is finding previously unimagined opportunities for evangelization – namely, over the internet. However, for the small minority of believers in Japan, the internet is far less connective. Much like their diocese and parishes, which are hardly seenContinue Reading
Vatican City, September 29, 2019: Just days before the Amazon synod of bishops is to convene in Rome, a symposium of students of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI published a statement of concern regarding the possibility of married priests, a controversial topic of discussion at the upcoming synod. “The vocation asContinue Reading