Police have arrested a 17-year-old youth after a church in Great Yarmouth in the east coast of England was attacked and desecrated. CCTV footage showed a man setting small fires in St Mary’s Catholic Church in Regent Road, Great Yarmouth, then attempting to burn an icon he took from theContinue Reading
Catholic Mass will be celebrated in the mediaeval cathedral in the Swedish city of Lund for the first time since the Reformation. The Lutheran Church of Sweden has offered the cathedral as a temporary place of worship to the Catholic parish of St Thomas, whose church will be closed forContinue Reading
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By Matters India Reporter Manado: A two-day programme to motivate selected young Asians on HIV and AIDS was held in conjunction with the Asian Ecumenical Youth Assembly (AEYA) at Manado in the North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. Twenty participants specially selected from among the participants of the AEYA attend the April-5-6Continue Reading
By Karen Laurie Mumbai: Father Leon Cruz, the only Salesian in India to be appointed as a Missionary of Mercy (MoM) by Pope Francis in 2017 with special powers to pardon sins reserved to the Holy See, will join other Missionaries of Mercy from around the world in Rome fromContinue Reading
by Zain Awan He has lived in India under all its prime ministers, right from Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru. Four months after K Asif’s magnum opus, Mughal-e-Azam, hit the silver screens, this man, then a teenager, landed in India. As his plane descended into Dum Dum Airport, the air-conditioned atmosphereContinue Reading
Beijing: The Chinese government has banned online retailers from selling the Bible, moving in the wake of new rules to control the country’s burgeoning religious scene. The measures to limit Bible sales were announced over the weekend and began taking effect this week. By Thursday, internet searches for the BibleContinue Reading
By: Puroshottam Nayak Bhubaneswar : An Ethical Imperative of Odisha Catholic Bishops’ Council (OCBC) with about 80 participants of both men and women religious provincials, vice-provincials, delegates of the provincials, major superiors, religious leaders of different congregations, vicar-generals, Commission Secretaries, stakeholders working in Odisha gathered on April 4, 2018 inContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Bengal and three other states to pay an interim amount of Rs 127 crore to hundreds of thousands of tea garden workers whose legal dues have remained unpaid for over 15 years. The bench of Justices S.A. Bobde and L. Nageswara RaoContinue Reading
The Election Commission of India on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it stuck to its stand taken way back in 2004 that candidates should not be allowed to contest from two seats simultaneously and if allowed, those who contest and win from two sseats resulting in a bye-election shouldContinue Reading
