Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Jan 19, 2019: Nearly 10,000 people marked the 10th anniversary of the worst anti-Christian violence in India’s history by attending a public hearing on the Kandhamal attacks. The Jan. 12 meeting involved Archbishop John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, whose family was personally affected by the attacks. Kandhamal isContinue Reading
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Kottayam, Jan 16, 2019: Nearly a week after the State government appointed a special prosecutor in the nun rape case, four of the five nuns who had protested against Bishop Franco Mulakkal, the accused, have once again been asked to leave the convent here. Official sources said Superior General ReginaContinue Reading
Miao, Jan. 16, 2019: A group of young college students in Changlang District of Arunachal Pradesh has organized a week-long Winter Carnival to raise fund to fight drug abuse in the district from 15 to 21 January in Miao. The Inter Collegiate Youth Association of Miao (ICYM), an umbrella bodyContinue Reading
Kochi, Jan 15 : The ongoing synod of Syro-Malabar Church has decided to approach the cyber cell against online media spreading “wrong and malicious news” about the Church. “The fabricated news is being published aimed at destabilising the unity in the Church and abusing bishops through character assassination. The laity shouldContinue Reading
Chhotebhai “The child is father of the man” is the seventh of the nine lines of the poem “My Heart Leaps Up” by William Wordsworth, written in 1802, when the poet was 32 years old. It is a line that has intrigued poets, philosophers and psychologists. I had never botheredContinue Reading
By Linda Bordoni Vatican City, Jan. 15, 2019: Pope Francis has urged pastors of the Asian Church to foster cooperation and fraternal exchange and to reaffirm their common responsibility in promoting the unity and integrity of the Catholic faith in their vastly diverse continent. His words of encouragement came inContinue Reading
Chandigarh, Jan 15, 2019: More than 300,000 drug addicts were treated in Punjab in 2018 and more than 63,000 people are currently being treated, out of which 25,000 are heroin addicts, a top police official said on January 15. The retention rate is 91.71 percent, Director General (Special Task Force)Continue Reading
KOCHI: The Synod of the Syro-Malabar Church, which is going on at the St Thomas Mount, Kakkanad, has approved the process of canonisation of Mgr Joseph Kandathil, the founder of Assisi Sisters of Mary Immaculate (ASMI), and Fr Varkey Kattarath, the founder of the Vincentian Congregation. Mgr Kandathil was knownContinue Reading
New Delhi, Jan 15, 2019: Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, a leading child rights group, has mobilised hundreds of its volunteers for providing support to the authorities in Kumbh Mela 2019 to track the cases of missing children. In Kumbh Mela 2013, nearly three lakh people had gone missing, which includedContinue Reading
