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Christian assaulted accused of conversion activities

Suspected Bajrang Dal members assaulted Awadhesh Kumar, tonsured him and made him sit on donkey. Lucknow: (UCAN) Suspected Bajrang Dal activists tonsured the head of a youth in Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh and paraded him on a donkey for four...

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Goa priest opposes helicopter tourism

Parish priest Rodany Rebello wants his people oppose the project as no locals benefit from it. Panaji: (UCAN) The local Church has joined the chorus of those opposing helicopter-tourism in Goa, which is scheduled to begin tomorrow, citing that it will...

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Pope Francis: It’s not us, but God who takes the first step

by Elise Harris –  Vatican City, Jan 31, 2016 / 05:50 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Sunday Pope Francis said that it’s the weak and vulnerable who are most valuable in God’s eyes, and stressed that it’s always him who takes the initiative in...

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Mob attacks priest, Catholics in Coimbatore

Coimbatore (Matters India): A Catholic priest and three lay persons were hospitalized after a mob attacked them in Coimbatore, an industrial city in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. On February 1, officials of Ramanathapuram Syro Malabar diocese met...

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Violence in Andhra as Kapus launch stir for quota

The Kapu leaders were angry with the ruling TDP for not implementing its poll promise to include Kapus in BC list. Visakhapatnam: (UCAN) Violence broke out in Andhra Pradesh's East Godavari district on Sunday as thousands of protestors from Kapu caste...

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Pope’s envoy at IEC: ‘Church should return to youth’

Cebu City (Matters India): “Instead of expecting the youth to return to the Church, the Church should return to the youth.” The representative of Pope Francis at the 51st International Eucharistic Congress (IEC), Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Myanmar, posed this...

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Church divided over RSS’s move to launch christian body

New Delhi (Matters India): The creation of a proposed Christian wing of the RSS is splitting the Indian church wide open. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has refused to participate in a meeting being organised by the John Dayal-led...

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Nuns want Ranaghat trial in another court

Kolkata (Matters India): Three nuns who are witnesses in the Ranaghat nun rape case of March 2015 have moved Calcutta high court seeking that the trial be moved out of the local court. Sources say that the nuns are scared...

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Mercy and mission go hand-in-hand, Pope says

By Ann Schneible. Vatican City, Jan 30, 2016 / 06:18 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Mercy and the Christian responsibility to be missionaries are closely connected, Pope Francis said Saturday, kicking off the first in a series of special audiences for the Jubilee Year...

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Cycle-rickshaws to lead ‘care for air’ plan

Patna (Story – Matters India): Your cycle-rickshaw-puller will soon take up the fight against air pollution. After all, not only do rickshaw-pullers work all day on the streets, they mostly sleep on pavements at night. When you take out your...

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Doyen of Inculturation dies

Varanasi (Story By: Ajesh Biju – Matters India): Father Iswar Prasad, a doyen of inculturation in India, died of old age illness on Friday. He was 88. Fr Prasad’s “life, thoughts and actions and pioneering works in inculturation have made lasting impression...

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Gujarat pastor arrested on charges of taking bribe

Pastor Simon Brainerd is accused of taking money for appointing a teacher in a church-run school. Vadodara: (UCAN) The Anti-Corruption Bureau officials in Gujarat Tuesday arrested a Methodist pastor for allegedly accepting bribe of 700,000 rupees (Some US$1,000) for facilitating appointment...