Category: Christian World
The series consists of 13 videos covering 47 parables and stories of Jesus. New Delhi UCAN: Bishops in northern India have launched a popular Bible cartoon animation in Hindi in their attempt to make region's young people familiarize with Jesus...
Last week, a different bench hearing the plea observed that there "should not be any attack on any kind of religious places" in the country. New Delhi (UCAN): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought a status report from the...
Telangana (Matters India)— Naveen Naik, a 13-year-old tribal boy from Narsapur tanda in Marpalli mandal of Ranga Reddy district, is all to set don the role of a priest forcing his way into domain largely held by the upper castes....
Lahore(Matters India): A Pakistani court Wednesday remanded 47 Christians in police custody for 10 days for allegedly lynching two Muslim youths a month ago. Police produced the accused before Lahore’s Anti-Terrorism Court-III and sought extension to the physical remand of 22...
Kochi: Cardinal George Alencherry Monday led prayers at a reception given to a peace boat from Japan carrying atomic bombing survivors at Kochi, Kerala. “Peace is the greatest blessing of God. Every religion is giving priority to the peace of believers....
Pilgrims kneel during Stations of the Cross at World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 26, 2013. Credit: Michelle Bauman/CNA. By Andrea Gagliarducci. Vatican City, Apr 27, 2015 / 03:38 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a previously unpublished 2012 lecture, Pope...
Tony Joseph (Mattters India). If you have been following Indian mass media or social media in the last few months, you couldn’t have escaped the narrative being spun by the Hindutva right-wing. It goes something like this: “Christianity is posing a...
Kathmandu (Matters India)— Pope Francis led the crowds gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for the weekly Regina Caeli address in praying for the victims of Saturday’s earthquake in Nepal which has claimed thousands of lives. “I wish to express my...
Vatican City: An Indian was among 19 deacons Pope Francis ordained on Sunday in St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican. “A priest is ugly who lives for his own pleasure,” Pope Francis said while warning the new priests against living first for...
Pope 'deeply saddened' by massive loss of life, expresses solidarity with those affected. Nepal: International aid groups and governments escalated efforts to dispatch rescuers and supplies to earthquake-hit Nepal on Sunday, but severed communications and landslides in the Himalayan nation...
Hope for Party, Challenge for Yechury There has always been scope for left of the centre voice in Indian democracy. In the early decades after independence, high-handedness of zamindars and plight of landless farm labourers made communist ideology relevant. The exploitation...
Karachi (Matters India)— Gunmen shot dead a Pakistani human rights activist on Friday after she hosted a talk on the politics of Baluchistan province, where security forces are fighting a separatist insurgency, police and associates said. Sabeen Mahmud was leaving...
The Hindu Mahasabha leader’s statement said Churches are no longer places of worship but factories for conversion. New Delhi: The Catholic bishops’ Conference of India has condemned the “highly provocative” statement of the Hindu Mahasabha general secretary Munna Kumar Shukla...
By Andrea Gagliarducci. Vatican City, Apr 22, 2015 / 12:54 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Amid continued violence by ISIS and other militant Islamist groups, the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue issued a declaration stressing that dialogue with Islam must be sought “now more...
Kuala Lumpur (Matters India)— Malaysia’s government faced calls on Tuesday to take action against Muslim protesters who pressured a church to remove its cross, the latest example of rising Islamic intolerance that is fuelling religious tensions in the multi-faith country....
Bishop George Pallipparambil (center), looks on as a government official is presented with a sapling. Credit: Diocese of Miao. By Antonio Anup Gonsalves. Miao, India, Nov 5, 2013 / 04:27 am (CNA).- The Diocese of Miao, located in far north-east India,...
By Adelaide Mena. Washington D.C., Apr 22, 2015 / 04:25 am (CNA).- What does it mean to be truly pro-life? Amid debates over abortion and the death penalty, Catholic ecologists say that one issue is often overlooked in discussions involving human life...
(This image taken on April 30, 2014 shows a Christian church in the town of Oubei that Chinese authorities had begun demolishing on April 28, according to Internet postings, after a weeks-long stand-off between worshippers and the local government) ...
The Christian Community established a large chain of elementary schools throughout Kerala, under the supervision of the Seminary and its leaders, he said. Kottayam (UCAN): President Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday said the role of the Church in spreading education cannot be...
Rome (Matters India): An Indian Jesuit is among three priests appointed to lead the Pontifical Oriental Institute for an interim period after an unprecedented shakeup. Jesuit superior general Father Adolfo Nicolás Pachón appointed Father Sunny Thomas Kokkaravalayil as one of...