For the past three years, Pope Francis has handpicked a Christmas card to celebrate advent and the birth of Jesus Christ, and this year’s choice features two baby Jesuses. The Pope picked Giotto di Bondone’s 14th Century fresco of the Nativity in Assisi accompanied by a verse from the bookContinue Reading
Vatican: Pope Francis on Thursday offered his prayers for the victims and families of the earthquake which hit Indonesia on Wednesday. The 6.5 magnitude quake mostly affected the Aceh Province on the island of Sumatra, and over 100 people were killed in the disaster. “I wish to assure you ofContinue Reading
Jerusalem: Researchers have announced new revelations in their ongoing restoration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, believed to be the tomb where Jesus Christ was buried before His resurrection, and have discovered an engraved cross believed to have been left by 12th century crusaders. The Mirror reports that workersContinue Reading
Bengaluru: The message of female empowerment and equality can come in any form and one such exemplar of woman power undoubtedly is a 105-year-old woman from India who has worked with perseverance and dedication toward her cause. The life of Saalumarada Thimmakka, an environmentalist from Karnataka, who has earned aContinue Reading
Kinshasa: An “odious crime committed against a peaceful and defenceless servant of God,” is how the Christians of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu are mourning the murder of Sr. Marie-Claire Kahambu. Sr. Marie-Claire, a Franciscan religious sister, was killed in Bukavu this week on Tuesday as she worked inContinue Reading
Milan, Italy: On Thursday, November 24, 2016, Cardinal Angelo Scola closed the diocesesan phase in the canonization process for Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia. He was a well-loved teenager who devoted himself to prayer and daily Mass as well as computer programming, filmContinue Reading
By: C.M. Paul. Siliguri: A school in North Bengal put together an ambitious project to perform an Off Broadway Gospel musical with a cast of some 300 students. Ranked 1st Boys’ School in West Bengal and securing 6th All India rank in the Education Today survey Don Bosco School SiliguriContinue Reading
Thirteen kilometers away from the city of Udupi in Karnataka, nestled amid the verdant hills, lies the historically rich village of Brahmavar – an otherwise nondescript settlement that is home to the world’s only Konkani-speaking Orthodox parish. Towards the end of the 19th century, around 4,000 Catholic families comprising predominantlyContinue Reading
By:Raymond Cherubim. Patna: St Xavier’s College and St Xavier’s College of Management and Technology celebrated Patron’s Day here on 3 December in honour of St Francis Xavier, patron saint of the college and one of the founding members of the Society of Jesus. Many people, including Fr Joseph, Fr Nishant,Continue Reading
By: T S Thomas Negombo, Sri Lanka: With a little more than 1,000 baptized Catholics, six parishes and a bishop’s house, the Mongolian Catholic community is trying to make its presence felt in the country. Bishop Wens Padilla of Ulaanbaatar, head of the Catholic Church in Mongolia, explained Catholicism’s originContinue Reading