Category: World News

Editorial ub  tg ///statesman, 21 January, 2016 (Note: Jakarta strike assumes importance since it is the fist in  Asia, that too in the largest Muslim nation known for its tolerance toward all religions. It only proves that the combined might...

By The New Indian Express,21st January 2016                       (Note:  A slow down in global economy is bad news for the Lazarases of this world, not for the Dives who have stored up wealth for generations. One percent of the world...

In the pic: Dr James Kottor with Mrs. Monica Thomas (Kanjirappally) during the grand KCRM Convention held at Kochi in Feb 2015) CCV Archives  By dr.james kottoor           Ever so many things – far too many things,  good, bad and ugly, more...

Abu Dhabi (Matters India): Last week Catholics in Southern Arabia gathered in Abu Dhabi to celebrate the ordination of two Capuchin Franciscan priests by Bishop Paul Hinder, Vicar Apostolic of Southern Arabia. Fr. Darick Paul D’Souza and Fr. Arun Raj...

Maltreatment of the young by local authorities must be stopped  Fr. Shay Cullen  Manila: (Story – UCAN) It was a very happy Christmas and New Year for the 70 children who found a new life in Preda's home for children...

By Garima Sharma, in the Statesman,  16 January, 2016 (Note: Immigration and open door policy of European Union seems to be  doing more harm than good recently. Germany has been most generous in accepting immigrants. Other countries were less to...

World Hindu council says it converted thousands of Christians and Muslims in the past 10 years. New Delhi: UCAN. Church leaders in India want the government to investigate claims that a Hindu group converted 500,000 Christians and 250,000 Muslims to Hinduism...

Obama’s Syrian refugee guest Refaai Hamo was a “trojan horse”. Mr Trump has said Syrian refugees are "strong, powerful men" who want to "destroy" America. Donald Trump says Dr Refaai Hamo does not represent the reality of Syrian refugees' intentions in the US AP    ...

In the Hindu January 13, 2016    South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has called for fixing America’s broken immigration system.                         (Note: Nkki Halley and Bobby Jindal are living proof that Indian Americans are a hardworking community. It is in...

By Express News Service,Published:  12th January 2016   (Notte: The Express news service says “six more Telugu students” were deported with cancelled visas from JFK airport to Rajiv Gandhi Air port in India. That implies, 1. more Indian students  had to face...

             On 12.28.15, In Uncategorized, by Mary Rezac, in Catholic News agency com                  It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but actually, both men just tied for...

Building set ablaze over use of its loudspeakers during Muslim payer times. In the pic: The Apostolic Church building in the Baath neigborhood of Lahore was set ablaze Jan. 7. (ucanews.com photo) Lahore (UCAN): A church building in eastern Pakistan has...

                                                   by Simon Caldwell,  in Catholic Heralad UK, Friday, 8 Jan 2016 In the pic: The Belgian flag flies outside the Belgian federal parliament in Brussels. Some politicians have been demanding that the Church should be stripped of public funding unless it...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan 6, 2016 / 04:58 pm (CNA).- Brazilian feminist Sara Winter used to work to legalize abortion. She was one of the founders of a radical group that carries out offensive topless protests at churches.  Now,...

                                   Nicholas Kristof, in New York Times, JAN. 7, 2016 Malana Pinckney, daughter of the late Rev. Clementa Pinckney, at President Obama's speech on Tuesday that called for new gun safety measures. Her father was a South Carolina state senator...

100 Pakistanis fled To Syria, Iraq to join IS – In  the Statesman, 05 January, 2016                      (Note:  This report is proof that the Islamic state is not in any dire straits  for recruits to carry on its barbaric agenda of terror...

Sunday 3 January 2016. In the pic: Iranian demonstrators chant slogans during a protest denouncing the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr in front of the Saudi embassy, Tehran, on 3 January 2016. Photograph: Vahid Salemi/PA            (Note:...

Compare churches attacked in US & India                  By IANS, in Free Press Journal,  Dec 31, 2015, www.freepressjournal.in (Note: If US  government and media are often at work highlighting religious intolerance in India (Obama did it before leaving India after his...

 ISIS fighters with captured sex slaves (Photo: YouTube screen grab) Sex slavery under ISIS fighters: Reuters | December 29, 2015, in Deccan Chronicle                                                    (Note: The best way to overcome a...

Joan Chittister,  Dec. 28, 2015,  From Where I Stand  in NCR                         (Note: Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister is a frequent NCR contributor, besides being a well known critique of...