By Matters India Reporter Kuravilangad, Sept 8, 2020: A mosaic of the world’s first Marian apparition will be enshrined at the Church of Annunciation in Israel’s Nazareth city on September 8, the feast of Nativity. The mosaic is done with a backdrop of Marth Mariam (St Mary’s) Major Archiepiscopal ChurchContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept 7, 2020: Apostolic Nuncio to Japan Archbishop Joseph Chennoth, an Indian, died September 7 in Tokyo following a heart attack. He was 76. The death occurred at 1:30 pm Japan time (8 am Indian time). The Syro-Malabar prelate from Kerala, southern India, wasContinue Reading
New Delhi, Sept 7, 2020: India has surpassed Brazil to become the second worst-hit by the coronavirus pandemic in the world. A record daily spike of 90,802 cases has taken the country’s tally past 4.2 million, Health Ministry data showed September 7. This is the second consecutive day that theContinue Reading
By Alessandro Gisotti Rome, Sept 7, 2020: A life totally dedicated to serving the poor among the poorest. The example of Mother Teresa of Calcutta never stops attracting people all over the world, believers and non-believers alike. One tangible sign of this “transversal” strength of the “Saint of the Neediest”Continue Reading
Vatican City, Sept. 7, 2020: A cardinal who was close to St. John Paul II died September 5, two weeks after his 94th birthday. The death of Cardinal Marian Jaworski was announced Sept. 5 by the press office of the Archdiocese of Kraków. Jaworski anointed John Paul II before theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Hyderabad, Sept 7, 2020: Revival of grant-in-aid to Christian minority schools, land for cemeteries and stringent action against those attacking Christians are in an eight-point charter of demands that the Telangana State People’s Assembly on September 7 submitted to opposition parties in the southern Indian state.Continue Reading
New Delhi, Sept 7, 2020: With 96.2 percent literacy rate, Kerala became India’s most literate state, according to the latest figures released by the National Statistical Office. Delhi came in second with 89 percent literacy rate. Uttarakhand with 87.6 percent and Assam with 85.9 percent are placed in third andContinue Reading
By Vijaita Singh New Delhi, Sept 7, 2020: India’s Home Ministry has suspended this year the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) licenses of six NGOs, four of them Christians. An FCRA license is mandatory for a non-profit organization to receive funds from overseas. At least two U.S.-based Christian donors areContinue Reading
London, Sept 7, 2020: The 1,400-year tradition of choral singing at Canterbury Cathedral resumed September 6 after its longest break since the English Civil War. The world-famous choirs will return from a pause of nearly six months, brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. Even the guns of the World WarsContinue Reading
By Annmary Andrews Newfoundland, Sept 7, 2020: I arrived in the Diocese of Roseau of the Commonwealth of Dominica, in the West Indies, on December 8, 2018. It was in response to a call for volunteers by the Presentation Sisters leadership from Newfoundland and Labrador Unit, during the tercentenary ofContinue Reading
