India’s first Bosco shrine to host saint’s relics permanently
11-year-old girl miraculously cured in 2011Continue Reading
11-year-old girl miraculously cured in 2011Continue Reading
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
New Delhi: The creation of a proposed Christian wing of the RSS is splitting the Indian church wide open. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has refused to participate in a meeting being organised by the John Dayal-led United Christian Forum (UCF) here on February 13 to discuss the move.Continue Reading
Guwahati- The Annual week-long faith-exposure programme organized by the Archdiocese of Guwahati for young people in religious formation concluded 23 January. It has been growing in strength and diversity during the last decade and this year there were close to 600 participants including aspirants, candidates, postulants, novices, junior sisters, seminarians, and brothers doing theirContinue Reading
Bhubaneswar— The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has accepted a suggestion from an Archbishop from Odisha, Eastern India, to discuss the anti-Christian persecution of 2007 and 2008 in Kandhamal at its plenary meeting scheduled for March 2016. Divine Word Archbishop John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar will speak on Kandhamal forContinue Reading
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