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Paris not a repeat of Mumbai – Deccan Chronicle

Victims of a shooting attack lay on the pavement outside La Belle Equipe restaurant in Paris. (Photo: AP, Mohan Guruswamy, | November 18, 2015 (Note: Comparisons are odious, but here the comparison the writer make between the Paris  and Bombay...

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Buddha’s View of Life and the Beyond

By Mathew Idikkula USA                  (Note: An earnest seeker of  truth, Idikkula’s field of specialization is Indian philosophy and various aspects of the science of spirituality. Originally from Palai, he lives in the suburbs of Chicago for the last 35...

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Leap for the stars, Raghu Rai tells media students

Shillong  (Matters India)— Acclaimed photographer and photo chronicler of five decades of Indian history Mr Raghu Rai told Media Studies students at St Anthony’s College Shillong “Leap for the stars.” Speaking at the 20th year celebrations marking the start of the...

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 In the middle of identity crisis

A woman sits in front of candles and flowers at a makeshift memorial in Nice, in tribute to November 13 attacks in Paris. (AFP Photo) -Europe must come together to fight IS –  Dominique Moisi, Project Syndicate, Paris, Nov 17, 2015...

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Archbishop Kurtz on the best thing to come out of the synod

By Matt Hadro. Washington D.C., Nov 16, 2015 / 01:47 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Families helping families – this may have been one of the greatest “fruits” to come from the Synod on the Family, said the president of the U.S. Bishops Conference...

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Chinese underground priest found dead

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...

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Eucharistic Congress ends with message of tolerance

Mumbai (Matters India): One of the largest gatherings of Christians in Mumbai in recent times showed how tolerance can go hand in hand with commitment to one’s faith. As the National Eucharistic Congress wound up in Goregaon on Sunday, one...

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Modi, India’s Best Salesman

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...

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  Pope in dilemma: How to Clean up Augean Stables?

Dilema Facing Pope Francis    “Harvest indeed is great but laborers are few,” said Jesus long ago. Now it is a question of a mammoth house cleaning work in progress for Pope Francis. Stewards he appointed are turning out to...

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Eucharist Congress recalls first papal visit to India

The relics of Blessed Pope Paul VI were presented for veneration on Saturday. Mumbai: (UCAN)  The National Eucharistic Congress in Mumbai concluded on Sunday recalling the landmark event of 38th International Eucharist Congress held at the same venue where Pope...

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Cardinal Oswald Gracias on Homosexuality

[An interesting article that includes a lot of psychological insights into one of the modern developements in the area of human sexuality. That Cardinal Gracias of Mumbai has expressed his views on the subject is welcome when most other prelates...

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POPE CONDEMNS PARIS ATTACKS

No religious or human Justification for Paris attacks Flags outside French Embassy in Rome after Paris attacks – ANSA (Vatican Radio): Pope Francis has called the attacks in Paris “a piece” of the “piecemeal Third World War.”In a telephone interview...

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Paris attacks: what we know so far

   Paris is City of LIGHT it will never Go Out!! DARKNESS IN THE CITY OF Light.   PARIS MOURNS: 129 Dead… 352 Injured, 99 Critically… ISIS Claims Credit… '3 Coordinated Groups' In Attack…Pray for Paris. Horrifying Eyewitness Accounts: 'It Was A Bloodbath'… Victims Identified…Solidarity And...

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Attackers in Paris ‘Did Not Give Anybody a Chance’

By ANDREW HIGGINS and MILAN SCHREUERNOV. 14, 2015 PARIS — François Granier, a wine consultant and rock music fan, thought the concert he was attending Friday night had simply taken a particularly raucous turn.Mai Hua, a fashion blogger and video director who was...

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Varsity students offer services to village students

Guwahati (Matters India)– A university community in northeast India has become a trend setter in offering development communication services when its students of the Schools of Technology and Social Sciences decided to reach out to its neighbourhod communities. It all...