Category: Christian World

james kottoor                     The following is a report sent by our friend Gitanjali Sudir from NY.   “One year into his pontificate, Pope Francis remains immensely popular among American Catholics and is widely seen...

Five things to look for during the Papal Visit By Fr. Thomas Reese | Sep. 3, 2015 in NCR [Jesuit Fr. Reese is a senior analyst for NCR and author of Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the...

Over the past century, the number of Catholics around the globe has more than tripled, from an estimated 291 million in 1910 to nearly 1.1 billion as of 2010, according to acomprehensive demographic study by the Pew Research Center. But over...

Feasts of St Phoebe and St Gregory the Great, 3 September 2015 Wijngaards Institute, 111a High Street, Rickmansworth, Herts – WD3 1AN, UK. (Note: Fr. John Wijngaards, originally from Holland has been a great missionary in the 1960ies in Andhra...

Feasts of St Phoebe and St Gregory the Great, 3 September 2015 Wijngaards Institute,111a High Street, Rickmansworth , Herts – WD3 1AN,UK. (Note: Fr.John Wijngaards, originally from Holland has been a great missionary in the 1960ies in Andhra Pradesh. He...

Story UCAN– A team of some 1,000 nun-doctors; 25,000 nun-nurses and over 10,000 nun-paramedical professionals and with some 5,000 social worker nuns are dedicated for the medical service mission of India. The Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI) seeks ways...

Priest faces 10-year sentence if convicted of false seduction. Dhaka(UCAN):  A Dhaka court issued an arrest warrant against a Catholic priest on Aug. 30, about a month after a woman accused the priest of abuse and refusing to marry her...

(Curtsy – The Latytude (Mumbai) Posted on August 18, 2015)by The Voice Of Bombay's Catholic Laity Fr. Aniceto Pereira presently stationed at Mount Mary’s Basilica has floated tenders for erection of stalls on the steps owned by the Basilica. Some of the tenders conditions...

In the pic: Pope Francis listens as Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, preaches for the liturgy celebrating the Day of Prayer for Care of Creation in St. Peter's Basilica, Sept. 1, 2015. Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA. By Elise Harris. Vatican City, Sep 1, 2015 /...

By Robert Mickens, Aug. 31, 2015 in NCR Robert Mickens is editor-in-chief of Global Pulse. Since 1986, he has lived in Rome, where he studied theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University before working 11 years at Vatican Radio and then another...

“Our cares regard social issues such as food security, the rights of indigenous peoples, violence against women, children's rights," Fr. Mathew recalled. India (UCAN):  Franciscans across India will stop for an hour on Sept. 1 for Eucharistic Adoration marking the...

Sister Theresa Kane – Nun who confronted the Pope In 1979, Sister Theresa Kane was serving as President of the US Leadership of the Women Religious when she was invited to publicly address Pope John Paul II during his visit...

Hong Kong (UCAN): Largest Chinese diocese may not be represented at Vatican gathering.  The head of the largest Chinese Catholic diocese in the world will be absent from the World Synod of Bishops in October because he has been deemed...

Bengaluru (Matters India): Thousands of saffron-robed devotees Saturday flocked to St. Mary’s Basilica in Bengaluru for the launch of a nine-day prayer in preparationfor the feast of the Blessed Virgin’s birthday. Archbishop Bernard Moras of Bangalore led the morning Mass...

by Elise Harris. Vatican City , Aug 30, 2015 / 04:51 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his Sunday Angelus address Pope Francis lamented the death of 71 migrants – mostly from war-torn Syria – whose bodies were found in an abandoned truck on...

Thomas P. Ivory in NCR, Aug. 29, 2015 (Fr. Thomas Ivory is pastor emeritus of Presentation Parish in Upper Saddle River, N.J. He has previously served as spiritual director and rector/president of the American College Theological Seminary at the Catholic...

Vatican City, Aug 28, 2015 / 09:10 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Jozef Wesolowski, the laicized, former apostolic nuncio to the Dominican Republic who faced criminal charges in Vatican City of possession of child pornography and pedophilic acts, has died at the...

Washington, DC (Story By: Raif Karerat– Matters India): The Durga Temple of Fairfax Station, Virginia, is slated to host a Hindu-Catholic interfaith conference in conjunction with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on May 23. The dialogue is designed to promote...

  The congregation began work in Sri Lanka some 60 years ago. (UCAN) Salesians in Sri Lanka sought their Indian confreres help to strengthen the congregation's work in the island nation at a meeting of the leaders of Salesian Provincial...