Category: Historical facts
By William Kilpatrick, in LifeSite,Tue Nov 17, 2020 – In the pic. The Grand Mosque in Paris. Kiran Ridley / Getty Images Conflict between Islam and Christianity is as old as CRUSADES! To impose one’s religion over another is PROSOLE-TIZATION which is...
This short post came to us in the cover of a letter to the editor. Anybody who goes through this gospel of truth will admit that this is more than a letter to somebody. These all are facts quite summerized,...
You have to see to believe, I saw it! by Catholic News Service, in NCR, Nov 7, 2019 People stand atop the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in this Nov. 10, 1989, file photo. Catholic bishops from the European...
Conflict or conversation of civilizations? This is the question posed to nations of the world in the 21st century! US and China are two powerful nations to answer this first and lead by example. China seems to be doing it....
Hasan Suroor, in the Tribune, April 4, 2018 Disillusioned young Muslims are opting for atheism. Doubt lingers: ‘Ex-Muslims’ can’t reconcile to values of ‘coercion’ and ‘repression’. (Note: Change alone is the only constant in life. We have heard it and also...
Luther-led Rift healing at last? (David J. Michael, Oct 31 2016 in America the National Catholic Review) Martin Luther’s burning of the Papal Bull excommunicating him in 1520 led to five centuries of religious division in Europe. The meeting of...
(Note: ‘Saint’, ‘Mother’, ‘Of Gutters’. Which of these is most appropriate for Teresa? ‘Mother’ ties her up with all. ‘Of Gutters’ highlights her first love and closeness to the poor. So “Mother of Gutters” may be most appropriate for...
A nun who wanted to quit a Kerala church, now faces criminal cases, branded mentally unstable. "I forgave them and tolerated everything till now. I cannot take it any further,” Sr Mary Sebastian says – Megha Varier| – Monday, August 8, 2016...
Published on: 7:25 pm, August 24, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com (Note: In the wake of yesterday's repeat earthquake in Myanmar, Kolkata, Bihar, Orissa and Assam felt the tremors for about 10 seconds. In terms of the intensity at Myanmar it...
(Note: Jesus may have been ethnically and religiously a Jewish, but his universal message and vision are reflected in the very definition of the word ‘catholic.’ – Isaac Gomes) Source: U.S. Catholic Historical Jesus scholars all agree that...
First there were very powerful charismatic leaders with a mission. I am going to consider four leaders who gave rise to four world religions. 1. Christ is believed to incarnate into history, preached the Kingdom of God, and revealed God...
Gospel of Jesus’ wife? – Dr. ALBERT MOHLER (Note: Don’t be shocked by the title. We journalists have to have a Rhinoceros skin (or bullet proof gentleman’s overcoat) as we are always in the thick of firing line which is...
Jesus of Nazareth, Whose Messianic Message Captivated Thousands, Dies at About 33 Gitanjali (New York) (Note: One never gets tired of listening to Jesus’ story retold becauses it isall about the only historic person who died young and yet...
By Natalie Jamieson – Newsbeat entertainment reporter in BBC It's recent history that's hard to stomach. In 2002 a team of local reporters in Boston USA, proved that dozens of Catholic priests had been abusing children for years and that the...
(Note: Science and technology are dragging people to stay together and work together. Instant communication has made this wide world into a global village where people are forced to rub shoulders with each other and support each other, not fight...
Varghese Pamplanil (Had Apostle Thomas been to India? Irrespective of the Syro-Malabar claims that he landed in India in AD 52, scholars are still in search of proofs. According to Vatican records, Didymus Thomas would not have gone past Afghanistan....
The ‘New Terrorism’ – Gurmeet Kanwal, in The Statesman, Kolkotta, 25 November, 2015 (Note:Internet and instant communication has shrunk the wide world into a global village, with...
Damaging effects of fundamentalism seen across the region. Bangkok: (UCAN) Buddhist fundamentalism, sometimes with deadly results, is on the rise in three Asian countries — Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand — where Theravada Buddhism is the main branch of the religion...
New Indian Express on IS By The New Indian Express, 20th November 2015 (Note: There are no enemies in Politics. It should be so between world powers in international relations. How a grand alliance worked for the good of...
Time to call a spade a spade – A MUSLIM SCHOLAFR SPEAKS UP By Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi, alim (a classical Islamic Scholar) and a Delhi based writer (grdehlavi@gmail.com) in The Asian Age, Nov.19/15 (The writer says:”The Paris attack was an...