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Published on: 4:16 pm, May 2, 2016 Story By: Mattersindia Reporter Kurnool — An alleged involvement of a priest of the diocese who hired goons to assault his Bishop has come to light in the recent kidnap of Bishop Prasad Gallela of Kadapa diocese in...
By Matt HadroWashington D.C., May 2, 2016 / 04:48 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The right to exercise religion came under sustained assault around the world in 2015, according to a new report from a bipartisan United States commission, affecting Christians, Muslims, Jews,...
Published on: 4:50 pm, May 2, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com Bhubaneswar: Samajwadi Party Odisha State Committee on Saturday draw attention of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) into the matter where six yadav families has been socially ostracized by the upper caste people...
Villagers told to covert from Christianity, or else. Posted on May 2, 2016, 6:15 PM (UCAN) Six families of Gond tribal Christians have fled their village in the central Indian Chhattisgarh state after Hindu neighbors allegedly threatened to kill them if...
Elise Harris. Vatican City, Apr 30, 2016 / 04:35 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Reconciliation is an essential aspect of God’s mercy, Pope Francis said Saturday, explaining that when we distance ourselves from the Lord through sin, it takes much more than our...
Anti-Vietnam War was his forte – By DANIEL LEWIS, in NY Times, APRIL 30, 2016 Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan gave an anti-war sermon at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, 1972.CreditWilliam E. Sauro/The New York Times (Note: During Vietnam war this scribe happened to...
The Church's health care centres in the country will strive to create around 300 Palliative Care Centres in the next three years. Posted on May 1, 2016 (UCAN). Aiming to launch some 300 care centres for the terminally ill people...
Published on: 10:11 pm, May 1, 2016 Story By: Mattersindia.com Kochi: It appears that the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church is taking the vegan way. Catholicos Baselios Thomas I, head of the Church, has asked the believers not to use meat for ‘nercha sadya’...
Published on: 10:23 pm, April 29, 2016 Story By: Thomas Sebastian On 23rd April 2016 a crowd of 700 Malayalis, mostly of Catholics persuasion assembled in front of the St.Mary’s church hall in Manchester to welcome 9 boys and three girls. As these...
By Matt Hadro New York City, N.Y., Apr 29, 2016 / 03:48 pm (CNA).- (Editor's note: This article includes explicit descriptions of violence. Reader discretion is advised.) The stories were graphic, brutal and raw. One account told of a couple whose children had...
Dr Suresh Mathew Hard facts first. A whopping 3.5 crore cases are pending in various courts across the country. Of these, 65,000 are in the Supreme Court; 44 lakhs in 24 High Courts; and 2.6 crore in lower courts. Over...
dr. james kottoor Read at the end of this comment also: Clericalism Blasted: Pope says clock has stopped on “Hour of the Laity”, by Ines San Martin, who highlights Francis’s exhortation in the context of the church in the Latin American which is...
Published on: 1:48 am, April 29, 2016 Story By: Matters India reporter Secunderabad: The apex body Telugu Christians has condemned a “vicious assault” on a Catholic bishop in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. According to a press release from the Federation...
Published on: 10:12 pm, April 28, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com Muslims in Switzerland are demanding that the white cross be removed from the Swiss national flag because as a Christian symbol it “no longer corresponds to today’s multicultural Switzerland.” The Muslim group behind...
Elise Harris Vatican City, Apr 27, 2016 / 05:17 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday Pope Francis said that just because someone is an expert in God’s law and a strict adherent to the rules doesn’t necessarily mean they know how...
The facility is located within the Nazareth Hospital, run by the congregation. Posted on April 27, 2016, 10:46 PM Patna (UCAN): The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth have opened an alternative medicine wellness centre, the first of its kind in the...
Cardinal Cleemis warned the faithful not to succumb to inducements and pressures in casting their vote. Posted on April 27, 2016, 10:49 PM Thiruvananthapuram (UCAN): Catholic Bishops Council of India (CBCI) president Cardinal Baselios Mar Cleemis has panned the Oommen Chandy...
Published on: 10:29 pm, April 27, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com Mumbai: In an interim order, Bombay High Court on Wednesday stayed Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s notice for demolishing a heritage cross and a portion of cemetery of Our Lady of Remedy Church, Poisar, Kandivli...
Modi was also requested to personally lead India's official delegation for the canonization of Mother Teresa. New Delhi: Catholic Church officials in India met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday requesting him to invite Pope Francis to India and also to...
Published on: 1:38 am, April 27, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com New Delhi: An Orthodox church in New Delhi has installed a food vending machine for the poor and homeless. Named ‘Share N Care,’ the machine at Mar Gregorious Orthodox Church in Janakpuri, a...