The BBC has revealed its list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2019. This year 100 Women is asking: what would the future look like if it were driven by women? From climate change activist Greta Thunberg to trans woman Nisha Ayub who was putContinue Reading
Rome, October 15, 2019: Pope Francis set the world of football abuzz on October 13 by unexpectedly throwing his weight behind the New Orleans Saints, a football team. Except, the octogenarian pontiff didn’t mean to support the NFL team, but the new saints of the Catholic Church. “Today we giveContinue Reading
Vatican City, Oct. 13, 2019: Pope Francis, the supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, Oct. 13 ‘canonized’ five new saints including Sister Mariam Thresia from Kerala. Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs V Muraleedharan, who is from the southern state of Kerala himself, represented India during the ceremony.Continue Reading
Palmerston North, October 9, 2019: Catholics of Palmerston North diocese in New Zealand have questioned the circumstances leading to the acceptance of the resignation of their Bishop Charles Drennan by Pope Francis. Pope Francis on October 5 accepted Bishop Drennan’s resignation after a young woman complained about his unacceptable behaviorContinue Reading
Eight years before Charles Lindbergh’s epic non-stop, solo flight from New York to Paris, the British aviators, John Alcock and Arthur Brown, made the first transatlantic flight in June 1919, from St John’s in Newfoundland to Ireland. It was a milestone in the history of aviation. Alcock and Brown wereContinue Reading
Matters India reporter London, Oct. 7, 2019: A Mother Teresa of Calcutta research scholar in the United Kingdom was honoured with a prestigious award from Albanian government in London on 2nd October 2019. The Ambassador of Albania to the UK, His Excellency Qirjako Qirko, handed over the Albanian Nation’s AmbassadorContinue Reading
Christians across India are “living in fear” because of acts of state-led violence and oppression, says the bishop of a region still recovering from one of the country’s worst outbreaks of persecution. Speaking to leading Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, Bishop Kishore Kumar Kujur of Rourkela describedContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Rome, October 4, 2019: Women religious in India need to be empowered to help the less privileged, voiceless and powerless in the Indian society, says Sister Shalini Mulackal, a leading theologian. “Women religious are not in a position to resist because their life is very much dependedContinue Reading
NAZARETH, Colombia : On a Sunday morning, Deacon Ferney Pereira was leading a prayer service in this small village’s Catholic Church. After reading a passage from the Gospel of Luke, the 30-year-old deacon stepped down from the altar, walked among his congregation and delivered an animated sermon in Tikuna, theContinue Reading
Islamabad, Oct 4, 2019: For all its criticism of India for denying rights to minorities, Pakistan”s parliament has shot down a minority Christian member”s constitutional amendment bill seeking to allow non-Muslims to become Prime Minister and President of Pakistan. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been strident in his attackContinue Reading
