In the absence of any government in Yemen, India says it is reaching out to other regional countries like Saudi Arabia and local Yemeni authorities to reach Indian Catholic priest Father Tom Uzhunnalil, held captive by Islamists in Yemen since early 2016. After a new video of Father Tom surfaced,Continue Reading
The Catholic Church in north Wales is becoming increasingly more dependant on foreign priests, according to the Bishop of Wrexham. The Right Reverend Peter Brignall said priests from Africa and India were helping keep the churches open. Wednesday morning at the Holy Cross Catholic Church in Llangollen and a congregationContinue Reading
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Footage of a Muslim girls’ choir singing Christmas carols at a church concert has emerged from from the Lebanese capital of Beirut. The ensemble of around 40 girls can be seen in a video singing ‘Silent Night’ in Arabic at St Elie Greek Catholic Church, located in a majority MuslimContinue Reading
London: The Queen, who turned 90 this year, praised Mother Teresa of Calcutta in her traditional Christmas message today. She began by lauding British medal-winners at the Rio Olympics and those who go out of their way to save lives. “But to be inspirational you don’t have to save livesContinue Reading
Birth of Jesus should remind world of the suffering of children today, pontiff says in Christmas Eve address at VaticanContinue Reading
Manila: Thousands of residents were fleeing coastal and other hazardous areas in the eastern Philippines on Sunday as a powerful typhoon barrelled towards the disaster-prone archipelago. Officials warned 2.5-metre (eight feet) high waves and landslides posed the biggest threats as typhoon Nina (also known as Nock-ten) closed in on theContinue Reading
Jatta, an Italian art historian and graphic arts expert, will be the first woman in the post.Continue Reading
Rameswaram: A total of 75 fishermen from this island town today attended the consecration ceremony of a church in Katchatheevu, an islet ceded by India to Sri Lanka in the 1970s, with the occasion marked by a sense of bonhomie amid the persisting dispute over fishing rights in the region.Continue Reading
London: The Church of England has appointed its first black bishop for 20 years in a move that significantly increases its handful of minority ethnic clergy in senior leadership positions. Downing Street announced that Woyin Karowei Dorgu is to be the 13th bishop of Woolwich, and will be consecrated atContinue Reading
