Category: Christian World

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Pope’s Encyclical on Christian Persecution?

June 30, 2015: Pope Francis recently released a new encyclical. Portions of it deal with environmentalism, global warming, and climate change. Naturally, this has prompted controversy. It’s noteworthy that Francis didn’t merely make a passing comment on global warming during...

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Christianity – A perspective!

Verghese Pamplani This article is the result of the analytical  study of more than 100  books  on Jesus, Paul, Bible and Christianity and other topics written by eminent faculty members of universities of Europe and US during my long duration visits to UK from 2005 to 2015. I am greatly indebted to the London Borough of Sutton Library Service. It is an attempt by a student of history – Mob.No. +91 9447152533  Email: pmvparijat@Gmail.com  A significant segment of Kerala Catholics is concerned and agitated over the aberrant direction to which the Church is now heading for....

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Families need prayers, mercy, courage, pope says

More than 1 million gather for papal Mass in Ecuador. Ecuador (UCAN): Even if a pastoral proposal for helping a Catholic family with problems seems scandalous at first, it is possible God could use that proposal to bring healing and...

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Cassocks of Withered Will?

It has come to be that the clergy cannot be questioned, whatever be the volume of misappropriations alleged against them. They have the hidden Canon to fire the public. Just last month, a Church Fund misappropriation case has been filed...

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The Priest Who Moved the Holy See

Trani, Italy,(CNA/EWTN News).- The life of Father Salvatore Mellone, who died on Monday, was moving to thousands of people. He was to have at least two more years of seminary when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, but by special...

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Catholics call for swift arrest of men who raped nun

Demonstrators accuse police of inaction and 'trying to shield the culprits'. New Delhi- UCAN. Christians in the western Indian state of Chhattisgarh and the capital Delhi staged protests Tuesday against what they called the lax attitude of police, who have yet...

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Missionaries of Charity under enforcement scanner?

Kolkata (Matters India): The Missionaries of Charity, a Catholic religious congregation founded by Blessed Mother Teresa, is among 12 organizations reportedly facing government probe into their accounts. The multi-edition Economic Times newspaper Monday reported that the Enforcement Directorate has initiated...

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Synods are no longer just for a privileged few

In the photo: Cardinals line up to kiss the cross during the Celebration of Lord's Passion on Good Friday at St Peter's basilica at the Vatican, on April 3 (AFP Photo/Gabriel Bouys) Church hierarchy must prove it is willing to listen...