By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Feb. 7, 2019: An Indian magazine has asked the federal government to derecognize the Vatican as a state for the Church’s alleged interference in the country’s politics. Church’s political interference should make Indian government sit up and formally take note, says an article swarajyamag.comContinue Reading
Vijayawada, Feb 7, 2019: State Assembly passed a historic Bill on Wednesday for granting Scheduled Caste status to Dalit Christians living in the State. Lakhs of Dalit Christians living in Andhra Pradesh had been demanding for a long time that Dalit Christians should be given the SC status. Many DalitContinue Reading
Birmingham, Feb. 7, 2019: New research carried out by the University of Birmingham’s Gëzim Alpion concludes that Mother Teresa’s dark night of the soul was triggered by childhood and that she had gnawing doubts about the existence of God to the end of her life. Dr Gëzim Alpion, who isContinue Reading
By Robin Gomes Vatican, Feb 7, 2019: The 27th World Day of the Sick of the Catholic Church is being celebrated on Monday in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), the capital of West Bengal state. The annual day was instituted by St. John Paul II on MayContinue Reading
Ashok Sharma New Delhi, Feb 5, 2019: Their offices raided, bank accounts frozen and travel restricted, international aid and rights groups with deep roots in India say they are struggling to operate under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has elevated the role of sympathetic homegrownContinue Reading
Chhotebhai This phrase means living in fear. There is also another phrase “getting bogged down”, which means getting stuck in a quagmire, from which it is impossible to extricate one’s self. This is what seems to have happened in Yogi Adityanath’s U.P., where I live. When he became the ChiefContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, Feb 6, 2019: The third Asian Congress and 10th Indian National Council of the World Apostolate of Fatima (WAF) were held in Kolkata. The event took place from February 3 -5 at Seva Kendra, Kolkata, followed by in Goa, February 6-7. It was to furtherContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Pondicherry, Feb. 6, 2019: Attending the 16th World Youth Day (WYD) held in Panama (Central America) was chance to strengthen faith, said an Indian delegation. “I was so privileged to participate in WYD. It was really grace-filled moment for me. It has been full of joyContinue Reading
Detroit: A lot has changed during Deacon Lawrence Girard’s 100 years on this earth. With a lifetime that has spanned two countries, two career paths and a vocation as a pioneer in the permanent diaconate, the centennarian has countless stories of service. But the story that gives him the greatestContinue Reading
Pope Francis has admitted that clerics have sexually abused nuns, and in one case they were kept as sex slaves. He said in that case his predecessor, Pope Benedict, was forced to shut down an entire congregation of nuns who were being abused by priests. It is thought to beContinue Reading
