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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By Elise HarrisVatican City, Sep 30, 2015 / 03:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As the first album ever to be recorded inside the Sistine Chapel is released, Archbishop Georg Ganswein said the sacred music featured is not something of the past, but...
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,...
Kolkata (CM Paul – Matters India)– Having spent three days with some 1,900 members of South Asia Salesian Family gathered for Congress to mark the bicentenary of Don Bosco’s birth, the 10th successor of Don Bosco reflected on the significance...
In the pic: Marie Miller, who performed before the Pope at the World Meeting of Families, Sept. 26, 2015. Photo courtesy of Missing Piece Media. By Matt HadroWashington D.C., Sep 29, 2015 / 04:17 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Performing for Pope Francis...
Philadelphia, Pa., Sep 29, 2015 / 04:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia hosted Pope Francis in his highly-anticipated first visit to the United States. As the dust settled after the departure of nearly 1 million participants in...
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...
C M Paul (Matters India) Belur — History was made September 28 when the head of the second largest male religious congregation in the Catholic Church used his maiden visit to India to meet with the monks of a top...
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...
(Matters India) Pope Francis is back in the Vatican after his 10th apostolic journey abroad which took him to Cuba, to the United States and to the United Nations in New York. During the flight that brought him back to...
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...
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...
Philadelphia, Pa., Sep 27, 2015 / 09:12 am (CNA/EWTN News).- During his visit to a Philadelphia correctional facility this morning, Pope Francis said every person is marked and bruised by life, but Jesus washes away our sins and invites us...
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...
Young Catholics say Badana teaches them how to face problems in life. A northern India diocese has dedicated a church to a young Italian woman who liked to sing, dance and play tennis but who died of cancer, a gesture...