By Jonah McKeown Denver, July 27, 2019: Following reports from the Associated Press that several hundred priests protested the Vatican’s recent decision to restore Cardinal George Alencherry to his administrative duties, a spokesman for the Syro-Malabar Church has disputed the report’s accuracy, and said that people wishing to see theContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, July 27, 2019: The Goa unit of the Conference of Religious (CRI) organized a course on integration for religious and priests who have come to work in the Archdiocese of Goa. Rachol Seminary rector Father Aleixo Menezes briefed the newcomers about the history of Goa. HeContinue Reading
Pontotoc, July 27, 2019: It’s a long way from northeast India to Immanuel Baptist Church in Northeast Mississippi – about 8,000 miles to be exact. It’s a journey the Reverends A.K. and Asangla Lama of Transforming Leaders in Asia (TLA) have been making for the past few years as partContinue Reading
By Allen Brooks Guwahati, July 27, 2019: The Assam Christian Forum has expressed anxiety over the haste in which the Indian government tries to press an “unstudied and un-reflected” Education Policy on the people of the country. At an urgently called meeting in Guwahati, the state’s commercial capital, on JulyContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, July 27, 2019: A study by an activist group has revealed glaring discrimination by various agencies against the marginalized during the 2018 flood relief operations in Kerala. The affected included Dalits, Dalit Christians, adivasis and scheduled castes. Their plight has been brought out in a document, ‘Marginalization in Catastrophe:Continue Reading
By Dr. Sushila S. Fonseca Panaji, July 27, 2019: Many youngsters strive to join the medical profession because it is a noble one, giving health and hope to suffering fellow men. A few join because they have scored the marks and for them to enter the corridors of medicine isContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, July 27, 2019: Delhi state’s health minister says the practice of sex determination and sex-selective abortions is rampant among the rich and affluent families in the national capital. The worst affected among Delhi’s 11 district is South Delhi that houses posh residential enclaves ofContinue Reading
By Arrington Luck Mclean, July 27, 2019: Drawn from places as varied as Arizona and London, New York and India, hundreds of volunteers last week found themselves in an unassuming hotel just outside Washington, joining together near the nation’s capital to help its homeless. Traditional Indian music blared in aContinue Reading
Raleigh: Abbey Forbes, the 18-year-old winner of the junior girls doubles championship at Wimbledon, has kept an inspirational book in her tennis bag at recent competitions and for all seven Wimbledon matches. The book, from her confirmation sponsor, Joan Monti, is a daily devotional called “Jesus Calling.” The best-seller wasContinue Reading
Vatican, July 27: A Jesuit priest from India has been appointed the Vatican observer for an international Church unity theology discussion between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches set to be held in Lebanon in January, 2020. Fr Jiji Puthuveetilkalam, hailing from Alappuzha, Kerala, a research scholar withContinue Reading