Category: Christian World
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...
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...
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...
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...
Kottayam (Matters India): Police have come to the conclusion that the accused in the murder case of Sister Amala, Satheesh Babu is a psychopathic killer. “He is a very dangerous person who gets pleasure out of killing,” said ADGP K...
It appears that a "committee" was set up (2012-13?) when the SM Eparchy was surreptitiously being established in Delhi. We are informed that this "committee" was formed essentially to deal with practical matters like the sharing of existing Delhi churches facilities...
Philadelphia, Pa., Sep 26, 2015 / 08:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A visibly moved Pope Francis ditched his prepared remarks in speaking to thousands of families gathered in Philadelphia Saturday night – giving an impromptu reflection on the beauty and dire...
United States (matters India): Pope Francis urged a more humane global system that respects the poor and the environment, as he criticized the economic order, in an address to the United Nations on Friday. The pontiff, whose reform-minded approach has...
Francis condemns abortion, death penalty, arms sales in speech to lawmakers. United States (UCAN): The past, the promise and the potential of the United States must not be smothered by bickering and even hatred at a time when the U.S. people...
Attention Bishops participating in the October Family Synod, Below please find a summary of responses to a global survey conducted by Catholic Church Reform International. The vast majority of survey respondents are active Catholics and people who are searching for...
Washington D.C., Sep 24, 2015 / 10:24 am (CNA/EWTN News).- There is no social or moral justification for homelessness, but we can find solace and meaning in the Incarnation, Pope Francis said Thursday during a visit to Catholic Charities in...
This is the last ditch effort the Knanaya community in USA is doing to put an end to the practice of purity-of-blood (Endogamous) marriages enforced in Knanaya Parishes under the Syro Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chicago in USA and in...
The National Catechetical Directory, released on February 3, during CCBI’s 27th Plenary Assembly in Bangalore, is considered an achievement for the Church in India. Chennai (UCAN): Church people involved catechetics began a three-day seminar in Chennai on Tuesday to discuss how...
(Matters India) Pope Francis on Wednesday made an unscheduled visit to the convent of the Little Sisters of the Poor, which is near the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, where he celebrated the Mass of Canonization...
A small book has been in circulation in the Christian world for nearly five hundred years. It has sustained the interior life of a million saintly souls. It is a composition of a humble Augustinian monk from the Netherlands. Next...
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...