“Man of THE MILLENNIUM”
"Man of THE MILLENNIUM"- America Honors an Indian. Our Govt. does not even know about him (I guess) I am ashamed that I was not aware of the existence of this noble...
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America’s gun laws – Editorial in Asian Age, Dec 04, 2015
Was the massacre of 15 people at San Bernardino, California, an act of Islamist terror, a Paris 2 as it were? The killers were a Pakistani-American Muslim couple who, it is being said, had contacts with Islamic extremists and had...
We know how to reform Islam – it’s time to actually do it, Muslims say
Washington D.C., Dec 4, 2015 / 04:14 pm (CNA).- Islam needs a “reformation” that can only be achieved by Muslims speaking out against extremism and promoting human rights, said a panel of Muslim public figures on Thursday. “If Muslim minorities...
Man-made disaster: Look how Chennai built its way to floods
In the pic: Chennai in 2000 to Chennai in 2015. Google Earth shows us what went wrong and resulted in the Chennai floods. Read the full story in India Today : http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/chennai-floods-man-made-disaster-building-construction/1/537094.html If there are trees, plants and open areas around,...
San Bernardino Shooting
Couple Kept Tight Lid on Plans By ADAM NAGOURNEY, IAN LOVETT, JULIE TURKEWITZ and BENJAMIN MUELLERDEC. Dec.3, 2015, in New York Times The Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, where the mass killings took place on Wednesday. Credit Mario Anzuoni/Reuters (Note:...
Fear of Refugees is unworthy of American Ideals
Remember the Poor & the Refugees NCR Editorial Staff | Dec. 4, 2015 Migrants from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan arrive at the transit and registration camp in the town of Presevo, southern Serbia, Nov. 24. (CNS/Djordje Savic, EPA) (Note: Good...
A WORLD OF ILLUSION
Swami Snehananda Jyoti Yesterday, my usual day of silence, solitude, and reflection during the week, my wife asked me why I was sad. Ordinarily I do not speak that day. Ashram residents rarely talk to me on that day. I...
Chennai – After the deluge
Monsoon fury in Chennai lays bare the crisis of governance in the city By: Express News Service, Dec 3, 2015 People travel on a boat as they move to safer places through a flooded road in Chennai. (Source: Reuters) The...
Pope Francis to youth: Have you thought about being a missionary?
by Elise Harris. Vatican City, Dec 2, 2015 / 07:16 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis’ recent trip to Africa was the focal point of his general audience today, during which he emphasized the key role that missionaries play on the continent, and...
Four more priests named in rector murder case
Father Thomas, Rector of St Peter’s Pontifical Seminary, Malleswaram, was murdered on March 31, 2013. Posted on December 2, 2015, 7:05 PM Bengaluru: (UCAN.IN) Bangalore police have filed an additional charge sheet naming seven people, including four more priests of Bangalore...
Caritas rushes emergency aid to flood-ravaged Tamil Nadu
New Delhi (Matters India): Caritas India, the aid agency of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, has dispatched some 2.5 million rupees as emergency fund to Tamil Nadu, a southern Indian state battered by the century’s worst floods. Amrit Sangma,...
US church leadership is in transition
NCR.Editorial on Change – By the NCR Editorial Staff,| Dec. 2, 2015 (Note: I saw this in National Catholic Reporter. Besides a thoughtful person forwarded it to me with the...
Former Troy priest Edward Belczak sentenced to 27 months in prison for fraud
Catholic priest Edward Belczak pleaded guilty Tuesday to mail fraud in connection with stealing $573,000 from St. Thomas More church in Troy, the prosperous parish he led as pastor for nearly 30 years. Belczak agreed to forfeit a plush Florida...
Killer robots? And here’s what the Vatican has to say
Geneva, Switzerland, Dec 2, 2015 / 04:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- No longer relegated to mere science-fiction, robots – built to kill people – play an increasing role in fighting terrorism alongside other new weapons of war. But what's resulting in...
The fearless nun inside ‘hell on earth’
(Story from Matters India) For more than 17 years, a Catholic nun named Neyda Rojas has been serving God in a place that many describe as hell on earth – a Venezuelan prison. For decades, penitentiaries here have been criticised by...
Hindu leader demands probe into Christian “land encroachment”
Adimali (Matters India): A rightwing Hindu leader in Kerala has demanded a probe into what he said was illegal occupation of land by Christians in the southern Indian state. Members of Christian community “have seized the land either by encroachment...
Pope to Die, Some Bishops pray to Mary?
Thoughts on the frenzy over the prelate who Supposedly wants Francis to die John L. Allen Jr.Associate editor, Crux, specializes in coverage of the Vatican. Nov.1/15 Archbishop Luigi Negri allegedly was overheard on a train harshly criticizing Pope Francis and his recent...
No evidence to prove Taj Mahal was a Hindu temple: Mahesh Sharma
New Delhi (Matters India): Amid several theories and claims about the ‘Taj Mahal’, the 17th century Mughal monument, the Centre has now said that there is no solid evidence to prove that the historical ‘monument of love’ was a Hindu...
Catholic nun found dead in a well at convent in Kerala
Police identified the victim as Stella Maria, 35, a member of the Sacred Heart convent at Uluppuni near Vagamon. A Catholic nun was found dead in a well at her convent in Kerala’s Idukki district on Tuesday morning. Police identified...
Stop all Papal Travels?
A Call to Terminate Papal Trips A noisy, expensive counterfeit of Papal Duty By John Vennari a lawyer of International repute, who takes up cases at the Roman Rota (Note: No harm listening, even to the most violent of our...
