Goa mulls ban on ‘Sunburn’ festivals during peak season
2016-09-01
Sunburn helps grow the craze of Electronic Dance Music in teenagers Continue Reading
Patnaik to name road after Mother Teresa in Odisha
2016-09-01
In Odisha Missionaries of Charity has nine homesContinue Reading
Maharashtra church to be renamed after ‘Saint Mother Teresa’
2016-09-01
Palghar: When the world celebrates the proclamation of Mother Teresa as a ‘Saint’ on Sunday, September 4, by Pope Francis in the Vatican, a church in Maharashtra will also have its own memorable celebrations. On that day, ‘The Blessed Mother Teresa Church’ in Virar town here, around 60 km northContinue Reading
Worship places must become social welfare centers: Ansari
2016-09-01
Thiruvanathapuram: Places of spirituality, must also be centres of welfare to humanity, according to Vice President Hamid Ansari. Ansari was inaugurating the 90 birth anniversary celebrations of Santhigiri Ashram founder Karunakara Guru on the premises of the ashram at Pothencode, near here, on Tuesday. Hamid Ansari also stressed the role ofContinue Reading
Court wants third gender included for job exam
2016-08-31
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has directed the Centre to take necessary steps to “expeditiously” modify the rules regarding the prestigious civil services examinations to incorporate transgender or third gender in the exam application forms. Referring to the landmark judgement passed by the Supreme Court on April 15, 2014 grantingContinue Reading
First Odisha Martyrs Day observed
2016-08-31
K. Nuakgam: The Catholic bishops of Odisha on August 30 observed the first “Martyrs Day” to commemorate those who laid down lives for their faith during the anti-Christian violence in the eastern Indian state’s Kandhamal district. The Odisha Catholic Bishops’ Council (OCBC) had on March 10 decided to observe OdishaContinue Reading
Teresa canonization: Hindu group sees red over govt team
2016-08-31
RSS described the move as a “political decision by an elected government”Continue Reading
Woman teacher hacked to death inside church
2016-08-31
She had apparently rejected her attacker’s proposalContinue Reading
Kolkata’s lone Anglo Indian parish priest recalls Mother Teresa
2016-08-31
Fr Wells recalls how Catholic parents warned children to have nothing to do with that strange nunContinue Reading
Catholic pat for Modi’s message
2016-08-31
New Delhi: The Catholic community is seeking comfort in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reference to Mother Teresa in his monthly radio programme on Sunday. At a news conference Tuesday, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) secretary general Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas said: “The Prime Minister articulated what many Indians feel; thatContinue Reading