Chiang Mai, Oct. 13, 2021: The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues has urged the Churches in Asia to increase their engagement with the UN to promote minority rights. Fernand de Varennes said this while addressing the last day of the Christian Conference of Asia’s regional consultation onContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, Oct 13, 2021: When September came this year, it brought joyful memories of my school life and of my teachers, beginning with nursery school. I remember with love my teachers who stood by me in my moments of doubt and pain, and rejoiced at even myContinue Reading
By Lisa Zengarini Washington, Oct 12, 2021: US bishops commend the Biden Administration for increasing to 125,000 the number of refugees who can enter the United States in the new fiscal year. In a statement issued on October 11, they also call on Congress to sustain the Refugee Admissions ProgramContinue Reading
By Anand Mathew Varanasi, Oct 11, 2021: Some 50 Christ devotees attending Sunday service were attacked by Hindu radicals in the Mau district of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The activists of Bajrang Dal (party of the stout and strong) and Hindu Yuva Vahini, a youth group, paradedContinue Reading
By Fr F. M. Britto Raipur, Oct 11, 2021: Just two years after my priestly ordination, having served as an assistant in rural Pithora parish, our then Raipur Diocesan Administrator Monsignor Francis Werner Hunold appointed me as the first priest in charge of a new town parish Kawardha in aContinue Reading
BY Shalini Mulackal New Delhi, Oct 11, 2021: The first phase of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will take place from October 17 to April 2022. Preparations are already underway towards this. The Preparatory Document (PD) and the handbook (Vademecum) that accompanies it for conductingContinue Reading
By John Paul Jaipur, Oct. 10, 2021: The mother church of the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan on October 10 celebrated its 150 years of existence. Because of the Covid-19 protocol, the number of participants was limited to around 200. They included Archbishop Raphy Manjaly of Agra, Bishop Oswald LewisContinue Reading
By Jaswant Kaur New Delhi, Oct. 10, 2021: Asha (name changed) stays with her extended family in the slums of Noida, a planned city in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Ever since she was born, she had been facing constant abuse. For a family of 12, where seven areContinue Reading
By George Cheriyan Jaipur, Oct. 10, 2021: Green Action Week, observed each year during the first week of October (Oct. 4-10), is a global people’s campaign to promote sustainable consumption. Around 60 organizations in 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North- and South America are participating in the campaign thisContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Kailashahar, Oct. 9, 2021: Sister Josline, a Franciscan Clarist nun, died October 9, a day after she met with road accident. The 66-year-old nun died in Agartala Government Medical College and Govid Ballabh Pant Hospital in Agartala, capital of Tripura. Bishop Lumen Monteiro of Agartala announced theContinue Reading
