Beijing: For a while China’s government has signaled concern that the country’s most popular male role models are no longer strong, athletic figures like “army heroes”. Even President Xi Jinping, a well-known football enthusiast, has long been seeking to cultivate better sports stars. So last week, the education ministry issuedContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis February 6 appointed a Spanish priest and a French religious sister as under-secretaries of the Synod of Bishops. It is the first time a woman has held a position of this level within the general secretariat of the Synod of Bishops. Father Luis Marín de SanContinue Reading
By M.K. George Rome: ‘We must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured,’ said Joseph Biden, the new president of the United States. He had every reason to say so. His predecessor, Donald Trump, had made 30,573 false or misleading claims as president. Nearly halfContinue Reading
Kochi: The Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council (KCBC) has hit out at the son of a former chief minister of the southern Indian state, for allegedly justifying the conversion of Hagia Sophia church to a mosque in Turkey. Chandy Oommen, son of Oommen Chandy, said in a recent speech that noContinue Reading
Bucharest: Authorities in Romania are probing a Christian priest in connection with the death of a baby during the baptism ceremony of the child. The baby had died of a heart attack after the bishop had plunged the child’s head underwater three times during a baptism. According to reports, theContinue Reading
New Delhi: A three-hour nationwide road blockade called by farm unions on February 6 went off smoothly. However, police detained about 60 people at a solidarity protest site within Delhi. Some far unions reported detentions in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana and Karnataka states during the “Chakka jam.” With fears ofContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi: I am distraught at what the Indian government plans to do to our healthcare system. A bill recently tabled in the Lok Sabha allows doctors pursuing Indian medical systems, including Ayurveda and homeopathy, to practice Allopathy after clearing a ‘bridge course.’ Post-graduate Ayurveda physicians canContinue Reading
Kochi: The Orthodox Church on February 5 approached the Kerala High Court against the Act passed by the state government which allowed the burial of Jacobites in the cemeteries of churches under the control of the Orthodox. A bench of Justice P V Asha served a notice to the stateContinue Reading
By Kochurani Abraham Kottayam: For any organization, movement or institution, the passing away of its founder is a jolting moment yet graced with gratitude for the vision transmitted and realized in the course of its trajectory. The members of the Indian Theological Association (ITA) share these sentiments at the demiseContinue Reading
Kottayam: Father Joseph Constantine Manalel, founder president of the Indian Theological Association who introduced theology to lay people, died February 5 at Malloosery in the Kottayam district of Kerala. He was 105 and a priest for 75 years. His funeral is scheduled at 2:30 pm on February 6 at theContinue Reading
