By Felix Anthony Neotan: A farmer in Arunachal Pradesh is on a special mission: Promote the writing system of his tribal dialect. “My aim is to preserve our Tangsa language, which according to a recent study is marked as an endangered language,” says Wanglung Mossang, a villager in Changlang districtContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi: Pope Francis on June 29 appointed bishops for Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu and Port Blair that covers the entire Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Father Savarimuthu Arokiaraj is the new bishop of Tiruchirappalli while Father Visuvasam Selvaraj, the Port Blair prelate. Both the appointments were announcedContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru: A group of students has used “social media” to reach out to thousands of people with awareness on the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. The students joined a “100-program Challenge” launched June 26 by Ecolink Institute of Well-being, a Mangaluru-based NGO involved inContinue Reading
By: Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Our hypnotized brains keep on doing one thing all through our waking hours and that is binge thinking, opines a Divine Word Missionary priest, Ittoop Panikulam, a counselor and psychotherapist, presently the director of Dhyan Kutir (a house of meditation), Mumbai. He considers this inbuilt habit asContinue Reading
Ruksin: Family members and well-wishers have observed the first death anniversary of a pioneer of Christianity in the Adi belt of the eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. Yayi Topa Taying, a resident of Ngorlung village in Ruksin circle of East Siang district, had also assisted the British soldiers duringContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar: The all-pass for Odisha’s tenth graders have disappointed several students, says a Church official in the eastern Indian state. “The future of students has been very much affected, especially those who scored only D and E grades,” said Father Vjay Kumar Ekka, the regional secretary ofContinue Reading
Houston/London: An Indian-American couple and their one-year-old child are among more than 150 people who are still missing after the collapse of part of a 12-story residential building in the US state of Florida on June 24, according to media reports on June 28. Search and rescue teams have beenContinue Reading
A Christian street preacher arrested while preaching the Gospel has won his case against a police department that admitted liability in a lawsuit, agreeing to pay $4,500 (£3,250) in damages in addition to his legal costs for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and violating his human rights. A Liverpool County CourtContinue Reading
When President Barack Obama flew to California to dedicate a national monument to Latino labor leader Cesar Chavez nearly a decade ago, a group of the activist’s relatives were invited to pose for photos with the president. Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Chavez’s granddaughter, hung back. As a member of Obama’s staff,Continue Reading
By Inés San Martín Rome: Pope Francis has sent a short, hand-written note to American Jesuit Father James Martin thanking him for his “Outreach LGBTQ Catholic Ministry” webinar, held with 1,000 people taking part. “I want to thank you for your pastoral zeal and your capacity to be close toContinue Reading
