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Vatican clarifies background on Pope’s meeting with Kim Davis

by Elise Harris. Vatican City, Oct 2, 2015 / 04:54 am (CNA/EWTN News).- (In the pic: Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J. addresses journalists during a May 15, 2014 press conference. Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA). After meeting with Pope Francis earlier this morning, Vatican...

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Indian Christian Women’s Movement forges ahead

Bengaluru (Story By: Virginia Saldanha): Women from Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox Churches met recently in Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) to review the working of a movement formed 20 months ago. The September 26-27 meeting also charted a path to make the Indian...

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Priest stabbed to death in central Philippines

Philippines (UCAN):  Catholic priest Antonio Magalso, 44, was stabbed to death on September 29 in the city of Tanjay, Negros Island in central Philippines. Fr. Nathaniel B. Gomez, dean of St. Catherine College and priest of the diocesan clergy of Dumaguete...

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BJP members plan for anti-conversion bill in Parliamen

BJP's Lok Sabha member Yogi Adityanath and Rajya Sabha member Tarun Vijay will introduce the bill in respective houses. New Delhi (UCAN): Two BJP members plan to introduce private member bills in both houses of parliament to stop religious conversions and...

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Bishop Ferdinand Fonseca dies

Mumbai: Bombay archdiocese’s retired Auxiliary Bishop Ferdinand Joseph Fonseca died on October 2. He would have completed 90 on December 2. Bishop Ferdinand was fondly known as Bishop Ferdie. He was born to Jose and Julia Fonseca, Goan settlers in...

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Syro-Malabar Church can teach about family-based parish: Cardinal

Mississauga (Matters India): The major archbishop of the Indian-based Syro-Malabar Catholic Church said he believes his church can teach the Synod of Bishops about parishes centered on families. Cardinal George Alencherry said Syro-Malabar parishes are divided into family groupings or...

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Cardinal Cleemis demands ban on ‘Agnes of God’

The play, Agnes of God – an anti-Catholic Play directed by Mumbai born Kaizaad Kotwal, is an adaptation of a 1982 Broadway production.                    The following letter from Cardinal Cleemis to Home Minister,...

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Sri Lankan Catholic newspaper celebrates 150 years

Colombo: (UCAN) In the pic: Sunny Francis Fernando reads a copy of the Gnanartha Pradeepaya Sinhala-language Catholic weekly he believes is pivotal in nurturing the Catholic community. Fernando has been delivering the newspaper for the past 45 years. (Photo by Quintus...

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VHP wants pope apologize to Indians

 Many cases occurred in India and deserve recompense, official says. New Delhi (UCAN):  A prominent Hindu group in India has asked Pope Francis to apologize to Indians who have suffered sexual abuse at the hands of Christian missionaries in the...

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Nun’s murderer admits killing another elderly nun

Kottayam (Matters India): The man held in connection with the murder of a 69-year-old nun in Pala allegedly had killed another elderly nun at a convent near Erattupetta in April this year, police said on Tuesday. Satheesh Babu, who has...

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Is Our Civilization in Peril? Mathew Idikkula (USA)

The evolutionary march of our civilization from the Stone Age to the Space Age has been an enduring struggle. Empires have risen and fallen; indigenous civilizations have come, made their contributions, and gone; groundbreaking innovations such as the dawn of...

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Pope articulates world’s conscience

Deccan Chronicle | September 27, 2015 Pope Francis’ conquest of the United States, from Congress in Washington through to the 9/11 memorial and right down to the pop concert and sports arena at Madison Square Garden in New York was...