Multifaith vigil for Lahore Easter bomb victims
2016-04-05
About 200 Christians, Muslims and Hindus gathered April 4 at the site of last weekend’s horrific Easter Day bomb attack Continue Reading
Pope Francis’ post-synod doc to be released April 8
2016-03-31
Vatican City: The Vatican announced Thursday that Pope Francis’ highly anticipated post-synodal apostolic exhortation on the gifts and challenges of family life will be published April 8. Titled “Amoris Laetitia,” on love in the family, the document will officially be presented to journalists next Friday, April 8, in Italian, French,Continue Reading
More women involvement needed in conflict prevention: India
2016-03-29
UN reports point out that women globally constituted less than 4% of signatories to peace agreements and less than 10% of negotiators at peace tablesContinue Reading
EgyptAir plane hijacked to Cyprus, passengers freed
2016-03-29
Negotiations with the hijacker led to the release of most passengersContinue Reading
Lahore bombing: children, mothers among victims
2016-03-28
Islamabad: Dozens of children and mothers wereamong the victims of the Easter suicide bombing in a Lahore public park in which at least 72 people have been killed. A breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack in Gulshan Iqbal Park. Even though the group said itContinue Reading
Pope Francis condemns attack on Pakistani Christians
2016-03-28
Pope Francis termed the attack reprehensibleContinue Reading
Mother Angelica, foundress of EWTN, dies on Easter
2016-03-28
The Poor Clare nun changed the face of Catholicism in the United States and around the worldContinue Reading
Benedict XVI is frail but ‘perfectly lucid’, says Vatican spokesman
2016-03-27
Although retired pope Benedict XVI is growing more frail, there are no particular concerns or worries regarding his health, a Vatican spokesman has said. Fr Federico Lombardi issued a statement following an interview with Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the retired pope’s personal secretary, in which the archbishop said Benedict XVI wasContinue Reading
African priest who exposed rights abuses murdered
2016-03-25
He was trying to show the world who was killed and who was responsibleContinue Reading
Unique chant takes Vietnamese deeper into Christ’s Passion
2016-03-25
Hanoi:.- While the Stations of the Cross are a worldwide Lenten devotion for Catholics, the faithful in Vietnam have an additional practice that blends ancient traditional chants with Catholic prayer and meditation on the Crucifixion. “The ‘Ngam Nguyen’ are…a unique Vietnamese Catholic practice of intoning a series of meditations recountingContinue Reading