Tracing priest’s roots from Lanka to Divar
2017-04-05
The Sri Lankan pilgrims visited the ancestral house of Fr Jacome GonsalvesContinue Reading
Dalai Lama arrives in Arunachal amid Chinese protests
2017-04-05
India asks China not create artificial controversyContinue Reading
Revisionists to wash women’s feet on Holy Thursday
2017-04-03
The Open Church Movement will organisz a parallel ceremony Continue Reading
Dalai Lama meets ‘friend’ who escorted him to safety
2017-04-03
Naren Chandra Das was the Dalai Lama’s gunman when he entered IndiaContinue Reading
Nuns stage a surprise comeback in UK
2017-03-31
Forty-five women became nuns in Britain in 2015, 14 of them under 30 years old. That’s the highest number who have taken orders in 25 years. Not many 29-year-old women would abandon a career in academia and get themselves to a nunnery. But that’s exactly what Theodora Hawksley did –Continue Reading
Pregnant woman martyr is beatified
2017-03-31
Madrid, Spain : “Emilia is a martyr of suffering, because she died some 10 days after giving birth for lack of medical attention, clutching her rosary. She had a chance to apostatize, to betray the one who taught her the faith, but she did not. She’s an example,” Historian MartinContinue Reading
First candidate for sainthood energizes India’s tribal church
2017-03-28
The Daughters of St. Anne, Ranchi, is the first congregation founded by a tribal sister for tribal girls in eastern IndiaContinue Reading
God still seeks hearts like Mary : Pope Francis
2017-03-27
Milan, Italy: Pope Francis celebrated the Feast of the Annunciation in Milan, telling mass-goers that even today God is still searching for hearts like Mary’s that are open to welcoming his invitation and providing hope, even when it’s hard. As in the past, “God continues to look for allies, he continuesContinue Reading
Jihadi who turned to Jesus
2017-03-27
Mohammad, who fought for an al-Qaeda offshoot in Syria, now hosts Christian prayer meetings in TurkeyContinue Reading
Priestly formation Christian community responsibility: Bishop
2017-03-27
Cape Coast, Ghana: Priestly formation isn’t a just a job for the rector – it’s a responsibility shared between the entire Christian community and seminarians themselves, said a Ghanaian bishop. “It is the duty and the primary responsibility of parents to form or educate seminarians, while the seminarian himself has theContinue Reading