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China’s Catholic Priests put faith in recruitment drive

(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...

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Christians fight local government rules on priests

Bhopal (UCAN) :Some villages in Chhattisgarh state have barred Christian priests from entering. Church leaders in Chhattisgarh are struggling against a local law that helps Hindu hard-liners stop Christian priests from setting foot in certain villages. "The atmosphere in the...

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Papal Dynamics – Swami (Dr) Snehanand Jyoti

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...

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Catholics told to gear up for ‘mercy revolution’

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...

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It is about ISIS or Islamic State

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...

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Christians fight local government rules on priests

Some villages in Chhattisgarh state have barred Christian priests from entering. Bhopal: (UCAN) Church leaders in Chhattisgarh are struggling against a local law that helps Hindu hard-liners stop Christian priests from setting foot in certain villages. "The atmosphere in the...

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BJP may tie up with Church in Kerala: report

The party had made a similar move prior to the Lok Sabha elections and this had to a certain extent reflected in the performance of some of its candidates too. Thiruvananthapuram: (UCAN) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may be looking...

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A Grand Alliance to Neutralise IS

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....

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Why BJP must dump RSS

 Amulya Ganguli,  in The Statesman, Kolkatta, 18 November, 2015.  (Note: In this article, writer Gamguli high lights several points as self-evident, though they may not be that evident to others. Some of them are:1. It was mainly thanks to Manmohan...

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Aggression against Christians to convert to Hinduism

The attack on a Pentecostal Church followers was in Chhattisgarh state. India (UCAN): Alleged Hindu extremists attacked members of a Pentecostal Church in Kohkameta in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh, causing several injuries. Some Christians were dragged out of the...

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Church doors must stay open despite terror fears, Pope Francis

Vatican City (Matters India): Pope Francis said today that the doors of Catholic churches around the world must remain open, despite increased security fears in the aftermath of the Paris attacks. “Please, no armoured doors in the Church, everything open,”...

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CHRIST AND ADVAIDA – Swami Snehananda Jyoti

Advaita in Sanskrit means non-duality. It means the identity of the individual self (Atman) with the Absolute or the Supreme Reality (Brahman). As someone who ardently studies Christ in the Gospels and Advaita from the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita,...

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‘Operation Big Daddy’ – Kiss of Love Organiser Arrested

'Operation Big Daddy' Kiss of Love Organiser Arrested in Online Sex Racket Case By Krishna Chand K, in New Indian Express, 18th Nov. 2015 (Note: No one can and should question the blessings of internet as a unifier of peoples and...