Vatican City, Oct 15: A former pontiff, a Spanish-born nun who is said to have performed her first miracle in Argentina and a slain Salvadorean Bishop were among the seven new saints canonised on Oct 14 by Pope Francis at the Vatican. Giovanni Battista Montini (better known as Pope PaulContinue Reading
India is among the 45 countries that have “serious levels of hungerContinue Reading
Vatican City, Oct. 15, 2018: Taiwan has invited Pope Francis to visit the self-ruled island, just weeks after China and the Vatican reached a landmark agreement on the appointment of bishops on the mainland. Taiwan’s Vice President Chen Chien-jen met the pope on Oct 14, 2018 and invited him toContinue Reading
VATICAN CITY , Oct 15: Pope Francis on Saturday defrocked two more Chilean bishops accused of sexually abusing minors, and to show greater transparency about how he’s responding to the church’s global sex abuse crisis, he publicly explained why they were removed. The Vatican’s unusually detailed statement announcing the laicization ofContinue Reading
Kannapuram , Oct 15, 2018: In a Facebook post on Sunday, 32-year-old Reshma Nishanth, a devotee from Kannapuram in Kannur, announced that she is observing her 41-day penance to visit Sabarimala, following the Supreme Court verdict allowing women of all ages to enter the temple. “I have been observing aContinue Reading
New Delhi: Oct. 15, 2018: A junior minister in India has filed a criminal defamation complaint against a woman who publicly accused him on social media of sexual misconduct, in a case that has highlighted setbacks facing India’s nascent #MeToo movement. In a 41-page letter to Delhi’s chief metropolitan magistrate,Continue Reading
Bishop Franco Mulakkal has been asked to surrender passport and banned from entering KeralaContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jalandhar, October 15: The Jalandhar diocese on October 14 joined a prayer program a lay group organized in support of Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who is now in a jail awaiting trial for allegedly raping a nun. Bishop Mulakkal headed the northern Indian diocese until Rome appointedContinue Reading
New Delhi: The delay in disposing of the appeal of the seven Christians of Kandhamal in Odisha, who have been languishing in jail for the murder of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, came in for wide criticism at a function organized by the Delhi Minorities Commission. “Humanity is being undermined at theContinue Reading
By Uddalak Mukherjee The night was not quite a night of long knives. Ten years ago, the knives — a metaphorical allusion to murder, rape and arson — were unsheathed for months, from August to December, in Odisha’s hilly Kandhamal region. It was one of the worst instances of targetedContinue Reading
