Mumbai: The Don Bosco Development Society (DBDS), an NGO, has been providing relief to the needy amid the pandemic since April. “We have touched the lives of 632,683 poor and needy – providing for their basic needs during this challenging time of Covid-19 pandemic,” said Salesian Father Rolvin D’Mello, executiveContinue Reading
Rome: For the first time, the Vatican has sworn in a Swiss with Filipino parentage as member of the Swiss Guard, the elite corps of soldiers who protect the Pope. Vincent Lüthi was among the 38 new recruits who took oath of allegiance to Pope Francis in the Vatican onContinue Reading
Chennai: Dalit Christian bodies in Tamil Nadu have reiterated their demand for appointing priests from the communities to the posts to bishops in the southern Indian state. The office of bishops in five dioceses and one archdiocese now lies vacant in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry; point out groups such asContinue Reading
Itanagar: The Arunachal Christian Forum (ACF) on October 9 served an ultimatum to the state government to resolve the Tawang Christian Revival Church issue at the earliest, failing which, it would b launch a democratic stir. The Tawang police had arrested Tawang Revival church pastor Joseph Singhi, sparking protest fromContinue Reading
Vatican City: The Vatican unveiled changes to a landmark law on transparency, supervision, and financial intelligence October 10, saying that the move would strengthen oversight of financial flows. The Holy See press office published the text of a decree Oct. 10 by Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, president of the Governorate ofContinue Reading
Rome: Ahead of the expected renewal of the Vatican-China deal this month, the former underground bishop of Mindong has announced his complete resignation from public life. Bishop Guo Xijin, 62, wrote in a letter published by Asia News Oct. 5 explaining that he was retiring to concentrate on prayer becauseContinue Reading
Rome: A priest in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, US, has been arrested along with two women and charged with obscenity after he was discovered filming a pornographic video on a parish church altar. Father Travis Clark, 37, the pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul in Pearl River, Louisiana, wasContinue Reading
Lucknow: Father Arnold Rebello, a Capuchin, on October 9 died of COVID-19. He was 90. The burial took place at noon the same day as per government rules at St Fidelis Ashram Cemetery, Lucknow with very limited Capuchin Friars, said Father Joseph Prasad Pinto, a fellow Capuchin. Rebello was theContinue Reading
Rome: Pope Francis told European anti-money laundering experts October 8 that the Vatican was committed to “clean finance,” as he denounced financial speculation amid a spiraling corruption investigation in the heart of the Holy See. It is rare for a head of state to meet with the Council of Europe’sContinue Reading
Rome: Italian priest Pier Luigi Maccalli, who was kidnapped in Niger, West Africa, two years ago, was freed on October 8. Maccalli is a priest of the Society of African Missions (SMA), an international religious congregation of men. “We have learned the news of the liberation of our brother, Maccalli,”Continue Reading
