Category: Christian World
It will protect them from "filth" and help save their soul VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has advised parents not to allow computers in their children’s rooms, to protect them from the “filth” of pornography, and to help them not...
Aftab Bahadur Masih 'tortured' into confessing murder at age 15, say legal experts. Karachi (UCAN): Pakistan on Wednesday executed a Christian death row convict despite repeated calls for clemency from rights groups and Church leaders. A spokesman for Justice Project...
By Matt Hadro. Washington D.C., Jun 11, 2015 / 03:56 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Abortion rates have declined by 12 percent nationwide since 2010, and pro-life groups say changing attitudes among the younger generation could be the cause. “We’re seeing the attitudes shift,”...
Ranchi (UCAN): The district police on Tuesday beefed up the security of Cardinal Telesphore Placidus Toppo of Ranchi following a threat letter he got from People`s Liberation Front of India (PLFI), a breakaway faction of the Communist Party of India...
The Knanaya Fundamentalist group are upset over the principled stand taken by Archbishop Bharanikulangara disallowing racist practices in Faridabad Diocese. We had a meeting with him last July when he visited Chicago. He was very clear in his stand and offered his...
By Ann Schneible. Vatican City, Jun 10, 2015 / 10:13 am (CNA/EWTN News).- During his weekly general audience, Pope Francis lauded families for the “hidden heroism” of caring for a sick loved one. “These are the heroes. This is heroism of the...
Washington D.C. (Story by Matters India) — One year after ISIS invaded Mosul, the Iraqi city’s diverse religious heritage is on the verge of extinction, warned a U.S. government commission on Tuesday. If appropriate actions are not taken, the U.S. Commission...
Background A group of ten representatives of the Delhi-based laity of Syro Malabar (SM) ancestry had petitioned the Holy Father on 24 May 2014 against a Joint Pastoral Letter (JPL) of November 2013, which sought to transfer them (on the...
Welcome Virginia Saldana to Church Citizens’ Voice(CCV) From now on let us have CCV as the short form for this Site: Church Citizens’ Voice. In welcoming our sister Virginia, I am welcoming, first, the Women Theologians of India. The first...
By Oliver Maksan (CNA). Alqosh, Iraq, Apr 15, 2015 / 04:31 am (Aid to the Church in Need).- “At night we often hear gunfire,” says Father Steven, a priest in Alqosh, Iraq. “But luckily we are quite a bit away from...
By Ann Schneible. Erbil, Iraq, Jun 9, 2015 / 12:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Despite the potential threat from the nearby Islamic State, several monks and students in northern Iraq have found refuge in an ancient monastery, certain they are in God's hands...
Stuttgard, Germany, Jun 9, 2015 / 03:55 am (CNA/EWTN News).- For fans of Church history and architecture, 3D imaging may be the second-best thing to time travel, allowing them to experience a medieval church as it existed hundreds of years...
Dr. James Kottoor’s motivational question “How to end Persecution of Christians?” is timely. Persecution,whether imposed or self-inflicted, should end. Peace and humanity should prevail. Dr. Kottoor rightly lists 17 reasons as...
Vatican City (By Edward Pentin), Jun 9, 2015 / 01:08 am (National Catholic Register).- Cardinal Gerhard Müller has spoken out firmly against trying to adapt the Church’s teaching to today’s often pagan lifestyles, saying such an approach introduces subjectivism and...
Statement of the Indian Women Theologians Forum Meeting, Papal Seminary, Pune, 17th – 19th April 2015 On “The Common Priesthood of Women” “New Wine requires new wineskins,” new visions and liberative insights cannot be contained in old structures. This was the...
Vatican City (UCAN): Pope Francis on Saturday bemoaned the "atmosphere of war" haunting the world as he urged the people of war-scarred Sarajevo to provide an example of how different cultures and religions can co-exist peacefully. The 78-year-old was given...
Old Goa (Matters India): Lightning struck the Basilica of Bom Jesus in Old Goa during a storm and damaged a pillar and tiles on the roof. However, no one was hurt in the incident on Thursday evening. The basilica holds...
I was re-reading the article titled “The Great Culture of our Syro-Malabar Church”, Almayasabdam (posted 30-10-2014). As the Editor rightly mentioned, this article asks the pro-tradition Masters to explain the difference between rites, the meaning of culture and the substance...
Researchers from Australia have re-formed a well-known experiment, which verified quantum physics's strange forecasts about the nature of actuality, by confirming that reality doesn't really exist until we measure it – at least, not on the very small level. Our...
Vatican City, Jun 7, 2015 / 08:29 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his Angelus address on Sunday, Pope Francis focused on the recent feast of Corpus Christi, saying the Eucharist is a “school of solidarity and charity,” which inspires us to...