By Synter Pereira Panaji, July 23, 2019: For more than 30 years, students of Rachol Seminary in Goa go to a village for a live-in program of at least three days as part of their course on Theology of Missions, accompanied by the professor of the subject. Initially, they usedContinue Reading
By Kiran Manral New Delhi, July 23, 2019: If you thought that the primary effect of the pollution your children are exposed to only causes them to fall ill, with respiratory ailments, you couldn’t be further from the truth. Apart from respiratory ailments, autoimmune diseases, affecting moods, and more, perhapsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, July 23, 2019: Kerala’s Health Minister K K Shailja on July 23 declared Ernakulam district Nipah-free as a youth fully recovered from the disease and left the hospital. “It is a successful culmination of the joint operation of government and private sector,” the minister toldContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Raikia, July 23, 2019: Kandhamal, the land of martyrs, continues to inspire pilgrims, religious, faithful, theologians, young and old. “My faith is strengthened and enriched after spending four meaningful days with the victims of Kandhamal,” said Divine Word Hanson D’Souza from Mangalore, who studies theology at KristoContinue Reading
Vatican City, July 22, 2019: One of Pope Francis’s top aides delivered a personal letter from the pontiff to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, among other things expressing Francis’s “deep concern” for the humanitarian situation in Idlib, a rebel-controlled area in northwestern Syria that’s been the target of Russian-backed airstrikes sinceContinue Reading
July 22, 2019: Pope Francis has banned a former US bishop accused of sexual harassment and of misusing church money from publicly performing the liturgy, the Vatican News website has reported. The measure was among a series of sanctions the pope had issued against Michael Bransfield, the website reported, citingContinue Reading
Kochi, July 22, 2019: Mounting ire of Catholics in Australia has forced Father Dominic Valanmanal, an Indian charismatic retreat preacher, to cancel his program in September at Melbourne. Australia is the third country after Ireland and Canada to deny the priest permission to conduct retreats after his controversial sermon onContinue Reading
By chhotebhai As the All India Catholic Union (AICU) celebrates its centenary in 2019 the incumbent National President (NP), Lancy D’cunha, has asked me to record the history of the AICU during my tenure as NP (1990-94), and what was happening before that. I have titled this chronicle “Down theContinue Reading
By Rosalin Hansda A study conducted by the World Health Organization in 2015 revealed that every fifth Indian suffers from depression. In other words, nearly 200 million people fall to various types of mental illness. However, only 10 to 12 percent of them seek help because of the odium associatedContinue Reading
Washinton, July 22: Seventy activists were arrested in Washington, D.C., on July 18 while protesting the government’s treatment of undocumented immigrant children, organizers confirmed to HuffPost. The group of Catholic sisters, priests, brothers and lay Catholic advocates recited the rosary as they gathered inside the Russell Senate Office Building onContinue Reading