In an historic mass to some 150,000 worshipers in Yangon, Myanmar, Pope Francis on Nov 29 urged the country’s Catholics to respond to hatred and rejection with “forgiveness and compassion.” The pontiff’s first visit to the staunchly Buddhist southeast Asian country, and the first ever by a sitting Pope, comesContinue Reading
Dubai: As the nation turns 46, a church in Dubai is celebrating the 50th year of beginning its congregation here, symbolising the peace, harmony and tolerance existing in the UAE even before the Union. The St Thomas Orthodox Cathedral in Oud Mehta is kick-starting a year-long celebration of the goldenContinue Reading
The life of Mother Teresa (1910-97), the Macedonian nun who devoted herself to serving the destitute mainly in India, continues inspiring people across the globe to play a healing role regardless of religion or ethnicity. That is the message conveyed in the photo exhibition on her life that kicked offContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Vientiane (Lao): Christian women of Laos People’s Democratic Republic have pledged to empower communities for overcoming increasing violence against women Lao society. Impact of immediate and long-term consequences of increasing violence against women and gender inequality was the thematic focus of a two-day training workshop heldContinue Reading
Myanmar`s military stands accused of waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims.Continue Reading
Vatican City: The top Catholic official in Bangladesh hopes Pope Francis’s visit there and to Myanmar will bolster moves to alleviate the Rohingya refugee crisis that has put the neighbouring nations in the global spotlight. Despite last week’s deal to return to Myanmar some of the hundreds of thousands ofContinue Reading
A British charity worker kidnapped and held to ransom in Nigeria was shot dead moments after singing Amazing Grace to a group of missionary medics, it has emerged. The final moments of the life of Ian Squire were described by his fellow Christian missionaries David and Shirley Donovan, who wereContinue Reading
Rome: For the past 500 years, beautiful sacred music has echoed up towards Michelangelo’s sublime ceiling frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, performed exclusively by male choirs. Until now. In a development that will delight both music lovers and reform-minded Catholics, one of the church’s gender taboos has finally been broken. CeciliaContinue Reading
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
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