Thousands of peaceful protesters carried yellow banners and umbrellas through Hong Kong on Sunday afternoon, marking the city’s first major pro-democracy rally since police ended the months-long Umbrella movement street protests in December. The rally’s organiser, the grassroots group Civil Human Rights Front, counted 13,000 marchers; the police counted 8,800Continue Reading
Hindus have commended Church of England for consecrating its first female bishop (Right Reverent Libby Lane) at York Minster on January 26 in a historic move, overturning centuries of tradition.Continue Reading
Guwahati – A group of university students in northeast India got together to raise funds for neighbourhood outreach program. Spread over a week, students sold pakora, momo, chops (cutlets), chai and ethnic food preparations. They also sold roses, sang karokee, offered numerous chance games, and even washed cars and motorContinue Reading
Some has taken away the ciborium after emptying the Sacred HostsContinue Reading
Bengaluru – Archbishop Bernard Moras of Bangalore on Thursday expressed his concern over the ‘rapid saffronisation’ of the education system in the country and the slow disappearance of secularism in educational institutions. Addressing the 17th All India Association for Christian Higher Education conference here on Thursday, the archbishop said IndiaContinue Reading
Erbil- Effectively exiled from his friary in Mosul by the Islamic State last year, Dominican Father Najeeb Michaeel is working to preserve Christian manuscripts through digitization, recording a memory of Iraq’s Christian past. Father Michaeel is an Iraqi native who studied in the U.S. and founded, in 1990, the CenterContinue Reading
New Delhi – Concerned by the ‘ghar wapsi’ (‘reconversion’) programmes and attacks on minorities, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has sent out a “pastoral letter” to all its dioceses urging followers to be steadfast in their faith and continue to uphold the secular democratic nature of India. TheContinue Reading
Vatican releases Pontiff’s reflection during press conferenceContinue Reading
