New York: Preet Didbal has been elected as the mayor of Yuba city in California, becoming the first Sikh woman to hold the position in the United States. Ms. Didbal was appointed by the California city council and will be sworn in on December 5, KCRA-TV, an NBC-affiliated television station,Continue Reading
VASC: The proposed shifting of venue to celebrate the feast of St Joseph Vaz on January 16 from the usual one at the sanctuary to the old Sancoale church has caused a split among villagers. On Wednesday evening, around 200 villagers gathered and questioned rector Fr Manuel Dias about theContinue Reading
She could have been an IAS officer; she even wrote the exam. But an interview with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) happened. She got through and was asked to join immediately. Today, she is hailed as the ‘Missile Woman of India’ and ‘Agniputri ‘(one born of fire) afterContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Berhampur: More than 20,000 people of various religions, mostly Christians, attended the biggest Marian feast celebrated in Berhampur, a coastal city in Odisha state, eastern India. Pilgrims from all over Odisha and neighboring states on November 27 thronged to the city, some 170 km southwest of Bhubaneswar,Continue Reading
Secrets of a tomb thought to be Jesus Christ’s burial place have been revealed after startling new scientific testing. Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre has been victim to attacks, fires, and earthquakes over centuries and it was totally destroyed in 1009. Ancient Romans identified a limestone cave enshrined within the churchContinue Reading
A young surgeon who escaped death by a whisker narrates his storyContinue Reading
A Catholic priest has disappeared in Bangladesh, police said on Wednesday, as the country stepped up security ahead of a landmark visit by Pope Francis that follows a rise in Islamist attacks on religious minorities. Walter William Rosario, a 40-year-old priest and headmaster of a Catholic school, went missing onContinue Reading
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