By Santosh Digal Colombo: The participants of the plenary assembly of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences took a half day break on November 30 to get to know Sri Lanka, their host country. More than 100 bishops along with FABC officials and guests went around the national capital ofContinue Reading
Vatican: Pope Francis has appealed to all persons to act in a responsible manner to prevent the spread of HIV-Aids. Speaking during the weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, the Pope recalled that on Thursday, 1st December, we mark World Aids Day which is promoted by the UnitedContinue Reading
Grasonvilef: Feed-A-Family was a great success due to the many volunteers who gave of their time, talent and treasure to help their less fortunate neighbors with a Thanksgiving Day feast, according to organizer Bobbie Bell. “We had beautiful weather for a joy-filled week of hard work. Many thanks to ourContinue Reading
Rome: A special Vatican screening of “Silence,” the veteran U.S. director Martin Scorsese’s new film about the persecution of Christians in 17th-century Japan was held on Wednesday. The film portrays two Portuguese Jesuit missionaries, played by Adam Driver and Andrew Garfield, who must contend with various forms of persecution as theyContinue Reading
Kosovo: An Albanian artist on Monday unveiled a portrait of Mother Teresa using staples, in a call for European countries to stop raising fences to shut their borders to refugees. Built in less than a month, Saimir Strati unveiled the 10-square-meter (12-square-yard) mosaic portrait of Teresa, built with 1.5 millionContinue Reading
A plane carrying 81 people, including a top Brazilian football team, has crashed on its approach to the city of Medellin in Colombia. Police say five people survived the crash but the rest of those on board died. The chartered aircraft, flying from Brazil via Bolivia, was carrying members ofContinue Reading
Beirut: Father Peter Hans Kolvenbach, who led the worldwide Jesuit order for a quarter century from 1983 to 2008, and who broke with tradition by voluntarily resigning what had once been a lifetime job, died on Sunday in Beirut four days shy of his 88th birthday. An internal Jesuit emailContinue Reading
By C.M. Paul. Birmingham (UK) – A Mother Teresa scholar in Birmingham, UK, has taken on writer Kitty Wenham – a London-based activist who was raised Catholic – who made claims in a feminist site that ‘Mother Teresa was a hypocrite with no real interest in helping people – andContinue Reading
Three feet high, with blue and yellow flashing antennae and a head shaped like a stylish toaster, A Tie is among the first of an army of “intelligent nursing robots” that will be deployed across China to ease pressure on its heavily-burdened elderly care system. But at a care homeContinue Reading
Havana: Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied US efforts to topple him, died on Friday, state-run Cuban Television said. He was 90. Castro had been in poor health since an intestinal ailment nearlyContinue Reading
