The Election Commission (EC) has issued a notice to the archbishop of Gandhinagar for asking Christians to pray to save the country from “nationalist forces” in the run-up to the Gujarat Assembly polls. Archbishop Thomas Macwan of Gandhinagar in a November 21 letter had urged Christians to save the countryContinue Reading
A British charity worker kidnapped and held to ransom in Nigeria was shot dead moments after singing Amazing Grace to a group of missionary medics, it has emerged. The final moments of the life of Ian Squire were described by his fellow Christian missionaries David and Shirley Donovan, who wereContinue Reading
Archbishop Macwan’s election appeal “highly provocative and objectionable”Continue Reading
Vatican City: On Nov 24, Pope Francis said that at some churches it is difficult to tell whether you are in a house of God or a supermarket. “There we have a business, including the price list for the sacraments – nothing is free!” the pope said during his homilyContinue Reading
Rome: For the past 500 years, beautiful sacred music has echoed up towards Michelangelo’s sublime ceiling frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, performed exclusively by male choirs. Until now. In a development that will delight both music lovers and reform-minded Catholics, one of the church’s gender taboos has finally been broken. CeciliaContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Siliguri — A college in North Bengal marked the birth centernary of India’s only woman prime minister with a national seminar attempting to make a critical study of Indira Gandhi’s contribution both in the national and internationl politics of her ‘turbulent times’. Salesian College Siliguri Campus DepartmentContinue Reading
A stamp honoring Mother Teresa won the 2017 St. Gabriel award for the best religious stamp issued in 2016. Kosovo issued this 2.10 stamp Aug. 15, 2016, to honor her canonization as a saint on Sept. 4 of that year (Scott 311). The design by Dijana Toskas and Hilmijeta ApukContinue Reading
Fr. Cedric Prakash sj On 14 November, speaking at a function in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, the UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath vehemently stated, “I believe that after Independence, the biggest lie in India is the word secular…the people who gave birth to this word and who use it, should apologise. NoContinue Reading
Generosity has gotten itself a bad name. Introduced to most of us in preachy, didactic Moral Science textbooks with terribly sanctimonious illustrations, being generous was often viewed as a faraway, overtly pious ideal that no youngster would like to be caught aspiring to – lest he be mocked at forContinue Reading
At least 235 people were killed and scores more injured when gunmen stormed a mosque in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, setting off explosives and firing on worshipers during Friday prayers, authorities said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the assault in the town of Bir Abd, about 25 milesContinue Reading