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How many Catholics in other countries will open their doors to refugees? Tokyo: UCAN A favorite pastime among Catholics is to declare what the pope should do. Lately, I've heard from a couple of people who thought Pope Francis should...
Pathanamthitta (Matters India): The 85th Reunion Meet of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church came to a close with a massive rally from Thirumoolapuram to the St John’s Metropolitan Cathedral in Thiruvalla town on Monday afternoon. Inaugurating the public meeting held in...
Kochi (Matters India): Hundreds of Syro-Malabar Catholic couples will assemble in Kochi to address true and immature love. “Believers should be able to differentiate true love from immature love,” says Fr Augustine Kallely, director of family apostolate of Ernakuluam-Angamaly archdiocese....
By GITANJALI A BERNARD, New York Pope Francis has approved extending the boundaries of the Mandya diocese [Karnataka, India]. Six civil districts of the Mysore region have been added. Bengaluru Urban, Bengaluru rural, Chickballapur, Kolar, Ramnagara andTumkur are the new add-ons. Diocese is known as “Eparchy” in Syro-Malabar Church’s idiom. Father Antony Kariyil, C.M.I....
Thiruvananthapuram (Matters India): Even though the state government on Friday declared a rehabilitation/compensation package for persons who will be displaced or affected by the Vizhinjam port project, the Latin Archdiocese of Trivandrum has taken exception to it and has announced...
dr. james kottoor Pope Francis, the super star in the eyes of the global media will be touching down on the US soil for the first time on Sept.22nd at Joint Base Andrews Airport. On 23rd he will be in...
By Ann Schneible. Havana, Cuba, Sep 20, 2015 / 08:29 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his first Mass during apostolic trip to Cuba, Pope Francis centered his homily on the Christian call to service, which he said is never ideological, but involves putting...
Havana, Cuba, Sep 20, 2015 / 07:47 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis set aside his prepared remarks to respond to the dreams and hopes of young people who spoke to him in Cuba on Sunday evening. “I took notes,” he...
By Elise Harris. Vatican City, Sep 19, 2015 / 05:30 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Brother Guy Consolmagno, S.J. has spent more than 20 years – the majority of his life as a Jesuit – as an astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican...
(Matters India): On September 11, soon after the principal of an institution named St Xavier’s High School was arrested in Mumbai on charges of molesting two boys, some Indians on Twitter began simmering with rage. The arrested principal is a...
Hindu hardliners forcefully rebuild after alleging Salesians demolished 200-year-old temple. Panaji: (UCAN) Church leaders and Catholic rights activists in the western Indian state of Goa said a temple forcefully built inside church property threatens peaceful relations between Catholics and Hindus....
By Meghan J. Clark, in New York Times, 17/9/15 The writer is a Fulbright scholar at Hekima Institute for Peace Studies and International Relations in Nairobi, Kenya, is an assistant professor of moral theology at St. John’s University in Queens,...
In this interview the Archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles Chaput, analyses Pope Francis’ visit to America. By Andres Bel Tramo Alvaraes in Vatican Insider (Note: Pope Francis will be in Philadelphia on Sept.27 for the world conference of Catholic families just before...
Kottayam (Matters India) : The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church will adopt a village in Nepal. According to a spokesman of the Church, this will be a comprehensive reconstruction project in the earthquake-hit country. Under the project, 50 houses in the...
In this interview the Archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles Chaput, analyses Pope Francis’ visit to America. By Andres Beltramo Alvarez, a Vatican Insider (Note: Pope Francis will be in Philadelphia on Sept.27 for the world conference of Catholic...
To all who Support Pope Francis's Vision of a more compassionate Church: As the 2015 Synod draws near, "We have to join our forces in order to reach a real breakthrough in this window of opportunity." [Hans Kung, CCRI Consultor.]...
By Angela Ambrogetti. Vatican City, Sep 17, 2015 / 05:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Collected by a Salesian missionary to Japan in the early 20th century, letters and documents showing the history of Christians in the land of the rising sun have...
(Matters India)The Archdiocese of Bombay is set to hold the National Eucharistic Congress from November 12 to 15, this year, at Archdiocesan Seminary Complex, Goregaon. Over 5,000 people have been invited from across India, including representatives from 167 diocese and...
Palai (Matters India): A 69-year-old nun was found dead in mysterious circumstances inside a convent in Palai, a major Catholic center in Kerala, southern India. Sisters in Lisieux Carmel Convent found Sister Amala Valummel dead in her room when they...
Syro Malabar faithful of Delhi Catholic Archdiocese Coordinating Group: C/o AFPRO 25/1A Institutional Area, Pankha Road, D-Block Janakpuri, New Delhi 110058 Email: riteissuencr@gmail.com Fax: +91-11-28520343 To The Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio Apostolic Nuncio, New Delhi Your Excellency, It is a matter of...