Vatican City: Pope Francis on Oct. 5 named Cardinal Kevin Farrell president of a committee to monitor internal Vatican financial decisions which fall outside of new accountability norms. Called the “Commission for Reserved Matters,” the five-member group is tasked with overseeing financial agreements which are exempted from Pope Francis’ newContinue Reading
Mumbai: St Pius X College, the major seminary of the Archdiocese of Bombay, October 5 celebrated its sixty years of existence. Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, celebrated the thanksgiving Mass at the seminary located at Goregaon West. The seminary has been instrumental in training ‘Ambassadors for Christ’ for WesternContinue Reading
Chennai: Catholic youth from Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry on October 4 planted more than planting 30,000 saplings to mark the “Season of Creation.” The initiative was taken on the occasion of the “Season of Creation” that Pope Francis had invited Catholics around the globe to mark from September 1 toContinue Reading
Guwahati: Assam Don Bosco University’s ninth convocation held October was live streamed on Youtube and Facebook. Students, friends and families of the Don Bosco Society fraternity across 132 countries watched the program. In his “Message of Hope” to the graduates, Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said, “It is a greatContinue Reading
Hathras: Scores of people October 4 held a meeting outside the house of a former legislator of Uttar Pradesh and defended the accused in the alleged gangrape of a Dalit woman. Four upper caste men on September 14 allegedly gangraped the 19-year-old woman in a village under Hathras district ofContinue Reading
Mumbai: More than 10,000 women, feminist groups and rights activists from all over the world on October 4 got together to seek justice for the Hathras gangrape victim. Besides Indians, the signatories of a joint statement were from USA, UK, Canada, Australia, UAE, Japan, Hong Kong, Nepal Sweden, Slovenia, theContinue Reading
Lucknow: Activist Saket Gokhale has filed a letter petition before the Allahabad High Court seeking stay on the Uttar Pradesh government’s decision to conduct a narcoanalysis test of the victim’s family in the Hathras gangrape case. Gokhale contends that the government decision is not only unlawful but an attempt toContinue Reading
Malawi : A bust of renowned Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi has been unveiled in the Malawian capital, Lilongwe, two years after critics prevented a Gandhi statue from being erected in the southern city of Blantyre. The Indian high commission’s original plans in 2018 met stiff resistance from some localsContinue Reading
Kolkata: Jesuit-run St Xavier’s University, Kolkata, is set to introduce a foundation course on religion for undergraduate students starting this academic year. “The Foundation Course on Religion offers to all undergraduate students the academic exercise to broaden their knowledge and appreciation of religion as an essential dimension of human experienceContinue Reading
Kurseong: Scores of people braved inclement weather in the hill town of Kurseong to protest against the gangrape of a teenage girl in faraway Hathras, Uttar Pradesh The protesters came from all walks of life and they held a candle light protest march October 2, the 151st birth anniversary ofContinue Reading
