OSLO, Norway — Breaking with tradition, nearly all ambassadors of the world’s nuclear powers will not attend this year’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony which honors efforts to ban atomic weapons, the Nobel Institute said Thursday. “We are disappointed that the ambassadors from the United Kingdom, the United States and FranceContinue Reading
Colombo: A consultation on action against violence in post war Sri Lanka heard Church women asserting zero tolerance. “The Church in Sri Lanka should ensure zero tolerance to violence against women at all levels, when the women in the war-torn Sri Lanka still face a rising rate of violence afterContinue Reading
A Catholic priest has disappeared in Bangladesh, police said on Wednesday, as the country stepped up security ahead of a landmark visit by Pope Francis that follows a rise in Islamist attacks on religious minorities. Walter William Rosario, a 40-year-old priest and headmaster of a Catholic school, went missing onContinue Reading
In an historic mass to some 150,000 worshipers in Yangon, Myanmar, Pope Francis on Nov 29 urged the country’s Catholics to respond to hatred and rejection with “forgiveness and compassion.” The pontiff’s first visit to the staunchly Buddhist southeast Asian country, and the first ever by a sitting Pope, comesContinue Reading
Dubai: As the nation turns 46, a church in Dubai is celebrating the 50th year of beginning its congregation here, symbolising the peace, harmony and tolerance existing in the UAE even before the Union. The St Thomas Orthodox Cathedral in Oud Mehta is kick-starting a year-long celebration of the goldenContinue Reading
The life of Mother Teresa (1910-97), the Macedonian nun who devoted herself to serving the destitute mainly in India, continues inspiring people across the globe to play a healing role regardless of religion or ethnicity. That is the message conveyed in the photo exhibition on her life that kicked offContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Vientiane (Lao): Christian women of Laos People’s Democratic Republic have pledged to empower communities for overcoming increasing violence against women Lao society. Impact of immediate and long-term consequences of increasing violence against women and gender inequality was the thematic focus of a two-day training workshop heldContinue Reading
Myanmar`s military stands accused of waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims.Continue Reading
Vatican City: The top Catholic official in Bangladesh hopes Pope Francis’s visit there and to Myanmar will bolster moves to alleviate the Rohingya refugee crisis that has put the neighbouring nations in the global spotlight. Despite last week’s deal to return to Myanmar some of the hundreds of thousands ofContinue Reading
A British charity worker kidnapped and held to ransom in Nigeria was shot dead moments after singing Amazing Grace to a group of missionary medics, it has emerged. The final moments of the life of Ian Squire were described by his fellow Christian missionaries David and Shirley Donovan, who wereContinue Reading
