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Caritas program helps farmers to better yields

Initiative helps farmers reclaim abandoned crops, pool information and resources. Bhopal: (UCAN) Some 750 small-scale farmers gathered in India's Madhya Pradesh state Feb. 3 to exhibit their produce and share knowledge as part of an initiative that a church agency spearheads...

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Lenten Reflections: New wine in fresh Wineskins!

Fr Cletus Capuchin            (Note: Thank you dear  Cletus for presenting CCV readers with a new approach to Lenten time fasting.  Fasting is comparable to darkness which all want to shun, feasting is like light that banishes darkness. You are...

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Intolerance a huge crisis faced by country: Ashok Vajpeyi

The former civil servant said none of those who returned the awards said the country was intolerant.   Kolkata: (UCAN) Describing intolerance as a huge crisis faced by the country, eminent poet Ashok Vajpeyi on Thursday hit out at the "corporatisation"...

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’70 generations ago, caste stopped people inter-mixing’

Subodh Varma & Sharon Fernandes | TNN | Feb 5, 2016, Study traces Indians' origins to five ancestral groups. India's present diverse population arose from five types of ancient populations that freely mixed and interbred for thousands of years before the...

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Lent:  Season for Introspection – Jose Therampil sdb, (Don Bosco College, Karunapuram- 506 151. TS)                     (Note: Welcome to Jose as the first batsman to kick start the season of lent with...

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US elections long drawn Dateline Iowa

               Editorial in the Statesman, | 05 February, 2016            (Note: Something very special about  US election is that it is  over an year long drawn process. The purpose seems to be the Biblical advise  to  ...

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Understand caste to bridge communal divide: Setalvad

Patna (Story By: Jose Kalapura): Caste-based atrocities and targeted communal violence have become common in Indian society. Both have some commonalities and distinct differences, said Teesta Setalvad, well known social activist and campaigner for communal harmony. “Indian society and polity have...

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The astonishing secret history of the Pope who fought Hitler

By Kevin J. Jones. Washington D.C., Feb 5, 2016 / 03:06 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Pius XII's secret support for the attempted overthrow of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler is the subject of a new book that draws on wartime documents and interviews...

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Modi’s Idea of India!

Conflicting political, constitutional, ideological imperatives will continue to generate paradoxes Ashutosh Varshney (Indian Express – February 5, 2016) (Pic:- Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing a public meeting in Coimbatore on Tuesday – PTI ) (Note: Democracy is a talking shop. To survive...

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‘Jesus is a good cure for fear’: Obama

Washington (Matters India): At his final National Prayer Breakfast as president, Barack Obama said his Christian faith helped him overcome fear as commander in chief and that faith can help the country overcome fear. “Like every president, like every leader,...

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Land lock on church colleges

Jamshedpur (Matters India): Hurdles in land acquisition is proving to be the bane of the Roman Catholic Church keen to set up a state-of-the-art engineering and a law college for Jharkhand. Cardinal Telesphore P. Toppo, who was in Jamshedpur on...

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Village fines people for saying ‘Christian’ prayers

Hindu group accuses them of engaging in conversion activities. Julwania: (UCAN) A village council in central India has fined four people for practicing Christianity and is closely watching them to prevent them continuing to do so. The Dahar village council in...

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Hindus assault Indian villager over conversion charge

 Hindu man beaten, paraded on donkey after seeking help for son at a Christian hospital.  Jalaun (UCAN): Police in northern India have arrested 20 people from a hard-line Hindu group for assaulting and parading a young man on a donkey accusing...

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Latin Archdiocese of Trivandrum Gets New Auxiliary Bishop

Trivandrum (Matters India): His Holiness Pope Francis has appointed Rev. Fr. Christudas Rajappan, of the Clergy of Latin Archdiocese of Trivandrum, as Auxiliary Bishop of Latin Archdiocese of Trivandrum and Titular Bishop of AvittaBibba This ecclesiastical provision was made public...

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Gay Law up for Review

Supreme Court refers gay law plea to five-judge Constitution bench – Statesman, New Delhi | 02 February, 2016               (Note: Criminalization of gay sex was brought in by the British raj in the colonial era. They stopped practicing it themselves long ago. Still...