Category: Christian World

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Pakistan executes Christian death row inmate

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...

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Cardinal Toppo gets death threat

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...

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THE KICK THAT TICKLES THE BULLIES – George J. Poozhikala

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...

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Family: Synod topic is Domestic Church

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...

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Welcome, Church of Humans – Prof. C. John Rose

                   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...

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“The Common Priesthood of Women” – Virginia Saldanha

  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...

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Pope says world haunted by ‘atmosphere of war’

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...

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Lightning strikes Goa’s Bom Jesu Basilica

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...

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RITE CULTURE AND DIOCESAN HOLINESS – Prof. C. John Rose

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...