ROME: The Vatican’s doctrinal office issued a note Dec. 21 saying it is “morally acceptable” for Catholics to take vaccines against the coronavirus, in what appears an unprecedented effort to convince believers to inoculate themselves to help end the global pandemic. Addressing concerns that some of the new vaccines wereContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court will on December 22 deliver its verdict on the murder of Sister Abhaya, whose body was found inside a convent well in Kerala’s Kottayam town 28 years ago. The court is expected to rule on the matter at 11 am. Among theContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation has drawn up a list of police lapses in its chargesheet in the alleged gangrape of a 20-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras village that had shocked the nation. The agency mentions lapses on at least four counts, starting with the police notContinue Reading
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 20 made a ‘surprise’ visit to Gurudwara Rakabganj Sahib in New Delhi to pay tributes to Guru Tegh Bahadur for his supreme sacrifice. Photographers were not far behind. This was his first visit to a gurudwara since he became PM in 2014.Continue Reading
Kochi: The Special Investigation Team of Kerala police has filed a chargesheet against four, including three priests, in the case of alleged forgery of documents to defame Cardinal George Alencherry, head of the Syro-Malabar Church. According to the chargesheet, filed December 19 before Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Kakkanad, theContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai: As Cardinal Oswald Gracias marks his 50th priestly anniversary, colleagues note that he is “gifted with intelligence, leadership qualities and altruistic nature.” Cardinal Gracias, the archbishop of Bombay and president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, was ordained to the priesthood on December 20, 1970,Continue Reading
Colombo: Opposition and civic groups have heavily opposed the government’s proposed joint venture with India’s Adani Group on the operations of the Colombo Port’s East Container Terminal. “This is a betrayal of the people’s mandate,” Ven. Magalkande Sudantha Thero, the general secretary of the Nawa Sinhala Rawaya National Organization toldContinue Reading
South Carolina: A Catholic priest in the US state of South Carolina has taken his own life just a day after testing positive for Covid-19. Michel Bineen Mukad, administrator of St. Mary Our Lady of Ransom Catholic Church in Georgetown, had sent an email to parishioners the day before heContinue Reading
Islamabad: Members of Parliament are taking a stand against forced marriage and religious conversion of young Christian and Hindu girls in Pakistan. The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Pakistani Minorities said every week girls are abducted, forced to convert to Islam and then marry their abductor in the country.Continue Reading
Vatican: A Paris criminal court on Dec. 16 sentenced Archbishop Luigi Ventura, to an eight-month suspended prison sentence for sexual harassment of several men. The 76 year-old prelate will also have to pay €13,000 to the victims, as well as €9,000 in legal fees. Archbishop Ventura served as Apostolic NuncioContinue Reading
