Category: Historical facts
It’s not West vs Islam, Paris attacks require a rational rather than emotional response Editorial in Times of India, Nov.20/15 (Note: We can’t achieve peace through war. The warrior nation of the world has not learned from the deadly fruits of...
Victims of a shooting attack lay on the pavement outside La Belle Equipe restaurant in Paris. (Photo: AP, Mohan Guruswamy, | November 18, 2015 (Note: Comparisons are odious, but here the comparison the writer make between the Paris and Bombay...
A woman sits in front of candles and flowers at a makeshift memorial in Nice, in tribute to November 13 attacks in Paris. (AFP Photo) -Europe must come together to fight IS – Dominique Moisi, Project Syndicate, Paris, Nov 17, 2015...
A person is being rescued after a shooting outside the Bataclan theater in Paris. A series of attacks targeting young concert-goers, soccer fans and Parisians enjoying a Friday night out at popular nightspots killed over 100 people. (AP photo0 By...
Paris is City of LIGHT it will never Go Out!! DARKNESS IN THE CITY OF Light. PARIS MOURNS: 129 Dead… 352 Injured, 99 Critically… ISIS Claims Credit… '3 Coordinated Groups' In Attack…Pray for Paris. Horrifying Eyewitness Accounts: 'It Was A Bloodbath'… Victims Identified…Solidarity And...
By ANDREW HIGGINS and MILAN SCHREUERNOV. 14, 2015 PARIS — François Granier, a wine consultant and rock music fan, thought the concert he was attending Friday night had simply taken a particularly raucous turn.Mai Hua, a fashion blogger and video director who was...
They're harsher when doling out punishment too. (Cursty – FAMILY FINANCE KIDS AND MONEY) A new study published by Current Biology (hat tip: OregonLive) explores the degree to which religion is linked to children’s generosity to strangers. “While it is generally accepted that religion contours...
By Mary RezacDenver, Colo., Oct 31, 2015 / 04:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- For years, Cecilia Cunningham and her husband took their children trick-or-treating in their then-suburban Philadelphia neighborhood. “It was the kind of neighborhood outside of Philadelphia where everybody knew each...
This is a brief study on the history of reformation movements in the Catholic Church followed by the authors' assumptions on the outcome of KCRM efforts in Kerala. CCV is an open forum of all Church citizens and we gladly...
The German Catholic Church – Vergese Pamplanil The Church in Germany, though fed by several different streams and sources, to a large extent is dissipating into its secular environs. The vast majority of the 24 million German Catholics in 2015 are...
Tobias Churton is a British scholar of Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Gnosticism and other esoteric movements. He is lecturer at Exeter University and author of Gnostic Philosophy, The Magus of Freemasonry, and Freemasonry and other works. Churton has made several television programmes including Gnostics, a 4-part drama-documentary series made for Channel 4 (UK) by...
By Adelaide Mena. Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug 20, 2015 / 03:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Nestled in a sleepy neighborhood in the hills rising over Pittsburgh lies a small chapel. Inside St. Anthony’s Chapel lies a piece from the Crown of Thorns, a tooth...
Detroit (Matters India) : A Satanic organization unveiled a controversial bronze Baphomet sculpture in Detroit just before midnight on Saturday, after trying in vain to have it installed near a 10 Commandments monument in Oklahoma. Due to planned demonstrations, the...
Servant of God Mar Ivanios helped bring a section of the Jacobite Church to the Catholic fold. Thiruvananthapuram: (UCAN) An unprecedented 20,000 people concluded a five-day "walking pilgrimage" to remember Servant of God Mar Ivanios who helped bring a section...
London (Matters India): Indians have become UK’s biggest overseas-born population. Data released by the Office of National Statistics on Friday shows that the Indian population has grown by 50 percent since 2004 with 760,000 of them living in the UK...
Washington D.C., Jun 26, 2015 / 08:07 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In a wide-reaching decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has declared that same-sex “marriage” is a constitutional right and that states must recognize same-sex unions. By a vote of 5-4, the...
Jerusalem, Israel, Jun 19, 2015 / 11:45 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholic leaders have been joined by Israeli leaders in their concerned reaction to Thursday's attack on a church located on the Sea of Galilee, which has hospitalized two persons and...
By Matt Hadro. Washington D.C., May 29, 2015 / 03:03 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A Native American tribe leader has been threatened with time in prison for his religious use of eagle feathers, and his case is currently before federal court. “This is...
By Elise Harris and Kate Veik. Rome, Italy, May 24, 2015 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Zhang Xihuan doesn't know what was going through her mind when she swallowed a mouthful of the pesticide stored behind the staircase in her home in...
Umberto Eco famously declared that Macs are Catholic and PCs are Protestant. That analogy can also be applied to the two social media giants shaping the 21st century. Some 20 years ago, in an article in the magazine L’Espresso, the...