Category: Christian World

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Day of the martyrs of Orissa to be celebrated every year

The Kandhamal anti-Christian violence claimed more than 90 lives and wounded hundreds of people. Posted on March 17(UCAN), 2016, 12:42 PM Bhubaneswar: The Church in Odishahas decided to celebrate August 30 every year as "Martyrs' Day" to commemorate the victims of...

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Police investigate blackmail of Vijayawada priest

Equivalent of US$154,000 given to extortionists, say media reports. Posted on March 15, 2016, 4:48 PM (UCAN) India: Police are questioning eight people in connection with the blackmailing and extorting of money from a Catholic priest in the southern Indian city...

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Goa Catholics upset about entry ban to naval base church

India defense minister says ban is due to secutity reasons. Posted on March 11, 2016, 6:39 PM (Matters India) Panaji: Catholics in Goa have expressed outrage after India's defense minister announced a ban on pilgrims going to Asia's oldest Catholic church...

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200 Kerala religious serving in West Asia hotspots

These missionaries are appreciated worldwide for their service to people. Posted on March 11, 2016, 6:35 PM Kochi (UCAN): There are at least 200 priests and nuns from Kerala working in strife-torn areas of Iraq, Yemen and Syria, like 55-year-old Father...

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Needed: A Church Shorn of Grandeur!

Episcopal affluence, extravaganza revisited        BY Bishop Alex Dias (of Port Blair)                  (Note: The moment I read this article I fell in love with the writer, whom I have never met to this day. My frantic search...

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Document awaited from predictably unpredictable pope

All is about two family Synods   By Joshua J. McElwee in NCRm Mar.10, 2016  Pope Francis accepts offertory gifts from a family during Ash Wednesday Mass in St. Peter's Basilica                         (Note: A tree will fall only in the direction to which  it...

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Infallibility: Hans Küng appeals to Pope Francis

Rome has said & discussion starts?  Infallibility: Hans Küng appeals to Pope Francis By Hans Kung in  NCR, Mar. 9, 2016 Theologian Fr. Hans Küng is pictured in his office in Tubingen, Germany, in this February 2008 file photo. (CNS/KNA/Harald...

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Here are the faces of the nuns who were martyred in Yemen

In the pic: From L-R: Sr. Anselm, Sr. Reginette, Sr. Judith, Sr. Marguerite. Credit: The Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia. By Maggie Maslak and Alan Holdren.  Rome, Italy, Mar 8, 2016 / 01:27 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Sister Anslem, Sister Reginette, Sister...

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Nuncio urges to promote laity, ecumenism

The one-day meeting discussed matters affecting the Latin Catholic Church in India. Posted on UCAN – March 7, 2016, 7:15 PM  Bangalore: Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio, the Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal, exhorted the Church in India to promote the lay...

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Stop Saint-making Please! Please!!

Proof of God’s Unlimited Mercy? dr. james kottoor                    Wrote a certain Tyler in the internet a few days ago: “But I doubt neither John Paul II’s celibacy nor his sanctity. I really don't care about his celibacy because it's always...

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Endogamy in Kottayam open Debate

Two Eminent Knanites thrash it out openly, frankly Dr James Kottoor
    Dialogue, dialogue, dialogue!  That alone is the way forward anywhere, especially in the Church. The aggrieved parties in Kottayam diocese and Church in India tried it for the last three...