Category: Christian World
Chennai (Matters India):Don Bosco Egmore in association with CARE Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Chennai launched Don Bosco Remedial Education Services to help the teaching community. The training will equip teachers to identify, handle and address special needs of students within...
Sunni leader Kanthapuram AP Aboobacker Musliar (Photo: video grab) (Note; Don’t say any more Kerala has no outstanding men among the world’s crazy lot. Of course most of the Muslims in Kerala, the most literate state in India, are educated...
Francis eschews his own safety to back ‘three saints of Bangui’ A Christian man chased a suspected Seleka officer in civilian clothes with a knife near the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic. (Jerome Delay/AP) By John L. Allen Jr...
Baghdad, Iraq, Nov 26, 2015 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The construction of a new church building in a Baghdad refugee camp has encouraged the camp's inhabitants, as they now have a place for worship and for activities during the...
Pope Francis, Arriving in Kenya, Gets Joyous Greeting Jeffrey Gettleman, Nov. 25, 2015, in NY Times Credit Goran Tomasevic/Reuters (Note: As usual Francis does unbelievable things like driving away in Honda sedan from Air port while Kenyan bigwigs travelled in...
Carpenter of Nazareth hid anything?(editor) Thomas Reese, Nov. 24, 2015, in National Catholic Reporter (Note: When I hear of Vatican secrets and leaks the troubling question that comes to my mind is: Had the Carpenter of Nazareth anything...
Nov.25 to 30 Pope in Africa – This report is published in Vatican Insider (©AFP) NAIROBI AWAITS THE POPE'S ARRIVALDOMENICO AGASSO JR VATICAN CITY, (Note: Pope Francis makes history to become the first Pope to travel to Africa as...
5 shot in US rally In the Statesman, Kolkotta, 25 November, 2015 Representational image (File/AFP) (Note: Black lives matter, more, all lives matter! All men are created equal, is what US constitution says. “Except those who are black” is...
United Arab Emirates (Matters India) : On Fridays, one can practically walk over car rooftops in the Mushrif neighbourhood as the faithful park wherever they can before rushing to services. Roman Catholics hurry to mass at St. Joseph’s Cathedral. Metres...
Bihar Victory for Whom? By Yogendra Yadav, in The Hindu, November 23, 2015 The euphoric moment of an electoral battle is dangerous for it could take eyes off the retreat on multiple fronts in the ongoing political war for the...
Most religions are not In UCANews, November 22, 2015, by Fr. William Grimm, Maryknoll Father William Grimm is publisher of ucanews.com and based in Tokyo). – (Note: “Kill a Commie for Christ”, “In God we trust..we...
To Make up for Ungodly Terrorists Let there be More Exemplary Muslims By Dr. Tawfik Hamid (Note: The story below is by Dr. Hamid, an Egyptian scholar and rector of the main mosque in Paris and reported first on CNN...
(Mattters India) Roman Catholics are rapidly increasing in larger cities across China, but efforts to train more priests have been held back by the lack of applicants for seminaries, according to the Shanghai-based China Daily newspaper. Zou Yunlong, a 32-year-old...
Swami (Dr) Snehananda Jyothi spent most of his life in USA. Quite attracted in distinct philosophies, he founded the 'East-West Awakening Ministries', which means an effective sharing of the philosophies of East and West. He also established four EWA Centers...
Undertake almsgiving, care for the needy and forgive during Year of Mercy. Kochi: (UCAN) Catholics are encouraged to bring about a "mercy revolution" by undertaking daily almsgiving, caring for the needy and forgiving as a way to meaningfully observe the...
In New Indian Express, Nov.20/15 (Wiping out the IS or containing it is the crying need of the times. If this can be done by military action and bombing is a very debatable issue. More debatable is the moral issue....
By John Menezes Among the holy places which have been held in honor among Christians from the beginning, one of the foremost has always been the Confession of St. Peter in the Vatican, made sacred by the tomb of the...
Vijay Swaroop, Hindustan Times, Nov 18, 2015 Nitish Kumar greets his supporters after winning the Bihar elections India on November 8. (Ajay Aggarwal/ HT photo) (Note: Yes, that is real sportsman spirit. Campaigning for one’s party is one thing, governing...
Father Pedro Yu Heping, wearing a light blue jacket, and fellow priests are seen on a trip to the Holy Land in 2007. (ucanews.com file photo) Father Pedro Yu Heping formerly ran a popular Catholic news site shut down by...
By The New Indian Express, 16th November (There has never been two views about Modi’s ability as a man with the gift of the gab, as an advertiser, as man capable of making his way through to make a show...