Rome: Hypocrites are afraid of the truth, fearful of who they really are and incapable of truly loving, Pope Francis said during his weekly general audience. What hypocrites do “is like putting makeup on your soul, like putting makeup on your behavior” and hiding the truth, the pope said Aug.Continue Reading
By Thomas Scaria MANGALURU: Clara D’Cunha is married with two children, and yet she manages a convent in Mangaluru, a southern Indian city. The Mangaluru-based Bethany congregation shifted its nuns from the beachside Good Shepherd Convent at Ullal to rural centers before handing over the convent and its campus toContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Neyyanttinkara: An altar girl presented her parish priest with a pair of sandals after Bishop Vincent Samuel of Neyyanttinkara blessed their renovated church on India’s Independence Day. Parishioners and others in the church watched with moist eyes as Father Aneesh Albert slipped his feet into the sandals.Continue Reading
Colombo, Catholics in Sri Lanka wore black and hoisted black flags on Aug. 21 to show their indignation over what they see as the government’s failure to respond adequately the 2019 Easter Sunday attack on churches. Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith of Colombo has been urging the government to name those behindContinue Reading
Adilabad: The tribal rights organisation, Tudum Debba, staged a dharna demanding the government to introduce Girijana Bandhu on the lines of the Dalit Bandhu scheme, in front of the Collectorate in Adilabad on Aug. 23. Hundreds of tribals belonging to different parts of the district gathered in front of theContinue Reading
Rome: Vandals have stolen a cross from the Catholic church in the Holy Land built on the site where tradition holds that Jesus performed the miracle of multiplying five loaves and two fishes to feed 5,000 people. Israeli police are investigating the theft of a six inch iron cross fromContinue Reading
Washington: More than 60 percent of born again adult Christians in America believe that Buddha, Muhammad and Jesus are all valid paths to salvation. More than over 30 percent of those between 18 and 39 say they either believe that Jesus sinned just like other people when He lived onContinue Reading
By M.K.George Rome: Afghanistan is on everyone’s mind. A tormenting presence. Should we be crying or speaking up for her? As the president of the country Ashraf Ghani fled and Taliban forces took over the city of Kabul, the despondence and extreme fear of the people of Afghanistan, except forContinue Reading
Beijing: China will now allow couples to legally have a third child as it seeks to hold off a demographic crisis that could threaten its hopes of increased prosperity and global influence. The ceremonial legislature on Aug. 20 amended the Population and Family Planning Law as part of a decades-longContinue Reading
New Delhi: As Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, one of the country’s most popular film personalities Sahraa Karimi on August 22 said the current situation is “horrible” and the need of the hour is to document what’s happening in the region for the world to witness these testing times. TheContinue Reading
