By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Pope Francis on November 19 transferred Bishop Anthony Poola of Kurnool to Hyderabad as its archbishop. The Pope also accepted the resignation of Archbishop Thumma Bala of Hyderabad, who reached the bishops’ canonical retirement age of 75 in April 2019. Archbishop Bala headed theContinue Reading
By LiCAS.news reporter Jakarta: Authorities in Jakarta will implement strict health protocols in the coming days after a hard-line Muslim cleric violated restrictions when he attended mass gatherings in the Indonesian capital. According to local media, Jakarta Deputy Governor Ahmad Riza Patria announced that large social gatherings will be prohibitedContinue Reading
New York: Leading American and global human and civil rights activists have come together to reinforce the demand to designate India as a “country of particular concern” to prevent and combat ongoing persecution of its religious minorities. The November 16 discussion was organized by the Indian American Muslim Council inContinue Reading
New York: The United Nations human rights commissioner has called for international attention and aid in Mozambique in response to an escalating series of attacks by Islamist militant groups. “The situation is desperate both for those trapped in conflict-affected areas, with barely any means of surviving, and for those displacedContinue Reading
China has no theological basis to pick the next Dalai Lama, according to a top US diplomat, asserting that the Tibetan Buddhists have successfully picked their spiritual leader for hundreds of years. “I travelled to Dharamshala, India to speak to the Tibetan community that were assembled there in exile andContinue Reading
Bangalore: Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop George Antonysamy, Vice President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) and the Archbishop of Madras-Mylapore, as one of the members of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples on November 17. The congregation oversees the work of the Catholic Church inContinue Reading
Toronto: Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha, born in Mangalore, was archbishop of Lahore, Pakistan, for many years. His family was among those who had opted to remain in Pakistan after Partition. He wrote a brief note in an email forum on caste in Pakistan, in general, and the peculiar situation of theContinue Reading
Karachi: A road in Karachi was named after an award winning Catholic nun for her work in education. Berchman’s Road near Clifton, Karachi was inaugurated on November 16 by Iftikhar Ali Shallwani, commissioner of Karachi, Fazal Karim Dadabhoy, honorary consul of Ivory Coast, in presence of teachers, nuns, students andContinue Reading
Declining fertility rates have a significant correlation with increased secularization, according to Baylor University professor Philip Jenkins. In a Regent College (Vancouver, British Columbia) live-stream titled “Fertility and Faith: A Conversation with Philip Jenkins,” the Baylor University professor of history and co-director of the program on historical studies of religion,Continue Reading
Shillong: Veteran journalist Patricia Mukhim, the editor of The Shillong Times, has resigned from the Editors Guild of India, alleging that the top journalists’ body “defends” only celebrity journalists. In her resignation letter, copy of which is available with NDTV, Mukhim, a Padma Shri awardee, gave the example of howContinue Reading
