By Nirmala Carvalho Pune, June 16, 2022: A Catholic bishop in India has reached out to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the umbrella organization of Hindu nationalists groups. On June 12 in Pune, the cultural capital of the western Indian state of Maharashtra, Bishop Thomas Dabre of Poona took part inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 16, 2022: Setting up national and state redressal commissions and strengthening India’s human rights monitoring mechanisms were among the demands an ecumenical body made to the federal minister of minority affairs. A delegation of the United Christian Forum on June 16 submitted toContinue Reading
By LiCAS.News Only 6 percent of domestic workers worldwide have access to comprehensive social protection, according to a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO). This leaves 94 percent lacking access to the full range of protections, covering medical care, sickness, unemployment, old age, employment injury, family, maternity, invalidityContinue Reading
Dimapur, June 15, 2022: Most children in Nagaland with intellectual disabilities do not have valid certificate to avail government benefits, says an officer of the National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities. Doctor Ravi Prakash Singh, officer-in-charge of the institute’s regional center in Navi Mumbai, was inContinue Reading
Vatican City, June 16, 2022: Pope Francis on June 15 took another step to reign in new religious groups in the Catholic Church after their unregulated proliferation in recent decades led to abuses in governance that allowed spiritual and sexual misconduct to go unchecked. The diocesan bishop must obtain aContinue Reading
Vatican City, Jun 14, 2022: Pope Francis said this week that no Christian is exempt from aiding the poor. In his message for the 2022 World Day of the Poor, published on June 14, the pope said that the worst thing that can happen to a Christian community is toContinue Reading
By Tola Mbakwe The Anglican Communion has announced a South Sudanese bishop will be its next Secretary General. Reverend Anthony Poggo is currently the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Adviser on Anglican Communion Affairs and the former Bishop of Kajo-Keji in the Episcopal Church of South Sudan. He will take up hisContinue Reading
Denver Newsroom, Jun 15, 2022: The 300-member Franciscan province of Saint Elisabeth in Germany has elected as its new superior Father Markus Fuhrmann, who a few weeks ago publicly came out as homosexual. In an interview with MK-Online, the official news website of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, FuhrmannContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Jun 14, 2022: An organization formed to support Catholic nuns in distress, on June 14 petitioned Pope Francis against the alleged move to “reinstate” Bishop Franco Mulakkal as head of the diocese of Jalandhar. The appeal from Save Our Sisters (SOS) claims that a trialContinue Reading
Limburg, June 14, 2022: The rector of a German Catholic seminary was found dead in an apparent suicide case. Father Christof May had been removed the day before from all his offices by Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg. Bätzing, the current chairman of the German bishops’ conference, reportedly took theContinue Reading
