PANAJI : James Parker has worked long enough with professional athletes and the Catholic church to know the benefits of sport. As Catholic executive coordinator for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012, Parker oversaw massive programmes for the homeless, peace initiatives and liturgical celebrations. He chaired More Than Gold,Continue Reading
Matters India reporter Gorakhpur — A diocesan social service centre in Uttar Pradesh won an award for their outstanding contribution to the disabled and marginalised people on the ocassion of International Day of Disabled Persons, 3 December. United Nations General Assembly declared International day of the Disabled Persons in 1992Continue Reading
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By Dr. George Jacob The Kerala government recently decided at a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to draw up a comprehensive trauma care program to ensure emergency medical assistance for Road Traffic Accident (RTA) victims. There always has been a thorn in the flesh of the rosyContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Nagpur: The Archdiocese of Nagpur on December 3 celebrated the World Communications Day stressing the need to spread hope and trust in a society besieged with fear and anxiety. “The use of social media has become a medium of miscommunication creating fear and mistrust at times,” lamentedContinue Reading
Mohammed Masihuddin had alleged planned to target foreigners visiting Mother Teresa headquartersContinue Reading
One year during Advent, our parish priest invited us to write down on a slip of paper a word that named something that is keeping us from getting closer to God. He suggested it might be a fear, a resentment, or an attitude that shuts us off from the loveContinue Reading
Dhaka: Pope Francis urged Bangladeshi priests and nuns to resist the “terrorism of gossip” that can tear religious communities apart, delivering one of his trademark, zinger-filled spontaneous speeches to the country’s Catholic leadership on Saturday at the close of an otherwise tense and diplomatically fraught Asian tour. As he hasContinue Reading
By Jugal Ranjit and Smita Nayak Bhubaneswar: A state-level seminar on Dalit Christian Empowerment organized here on Dec 1 with twin objectives to address the Dalit concerns and promote their wellbeing in Odisha. Father Manoj Kumar Nayak, secretary, Commission for Scheduled Caste and Backward Caste of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar archdiocese, one ofContinue Reading