Nearly 140 years ago, a group of Oxfordshire nuns travelled to a remote and deprived region of India to set up three Christian schools. Today, The Community of St Mary the Virgin in Wantage has dwindled from a community of 300 to just 14 sisters, but they still keep that linkContinue Reading
The nuns serve society through our education, health, social work and pastoral ministriesContinue Reading
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Bishop Ferrando founded the MSMHC in 1942Continue Reading
Bangalore: The Association of Franciscan Families of India (AFFI) has launched a nationwide plan to observe the Year of Mercy. The association with 50,000 members spread over 164 provinces of 54 congregations in India will strive to free at least 1,000 prisoners during the period when the Universal Church isContinue Reading
Mumbai — The film, ‘Jesus of Nazareth’, by award-winning Italian director, Franco Zeffirelli, is dubbed into Marathi and is now available online for Lent 2016 in four parts depicting the agony, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is accessible on the ‘TejPrasarini-Marathi’ YouTube channel in HD Digital Format under the title ‘YesuContinue Reading
Kochi: Putting a temporary halt to the dispute between Jacobite and Orthodox factions over worship at St Peter’s and St Paul’s Church Kolenchery, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Ernakulam District Collector and police superintendent to facilitate worship by both factions. The Bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi has asked theContinue Reading
Two Capuchin Franciscan friars were ordained on February 8 by His Exc. Mgr John Barwa in the district of Kandhamal, which had seen horrific anti-Christian violence in 2008. “A gift and a blessing, in the Year of Mercy”: is how the Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, in Orissa, His Exc. Mgr. JohnContinue Reading
Nagpur: A Catholic prelate in central India has criticized attempts to impose uniform culture in the country. “We are all not the same, and we do not have all to be the same,” asserted Archbishop Abraham Viruthakulangara of Nagpur during an annual pilgrimage to a 19th-century Marian grotto. Thousands ofContinue Reading
