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Mass wine exempted from prohibition in Bihar

Use of Sacramental wine has been permitted, state official Kunwar Jang Bahadur explained. Posted on April 7, 2016, 3:03 PM. Patna: (UCAN) The blanket ban on alcohol in Bihar will not affect the Church, officials have explained on Wednesday saying Christians...

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Priest dies while trying to save drowning student 

Published on: 6:26 pm, April 6, 2016 Story By: Matter India reporter Kochi: A Catholic priest lost his life on Wednesday while trying to save a drowning boy in Kerala. Fr Augustine Vairamon and the student, Joyal Joy, were part of a picnic team...

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Intrusion during a Christian assembly in Chhattisgarh

The incident took place on April 3 in Kawardha district in Chhattisgarh. New Delhi (UCAN): Posted on April 6, 2016, 6:18 PM A group of about 40 Hindu extremists interrupted the Sunday service of a Pentecostal Christian Assembly in Chhattisgarh, reports...

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Government’s squeeze on Muslim university upsets Christians

Muslims in India are politically, socially and economically worse than dalits, says church official. New Delhi: Posted on April 6, 2016, 6:21 PM (UCAN) Christians in India are concerned that federal government not granting special status to a prominent Muslim university...

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Providing shelter and love for forsaken women 

Published on: 12:32 am, April 5, 2016 Story By: Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Pune: Sr. Lucy Kurien was the only Catholic among 20 women that the Indian government honored with the Nari Shakti Puraskar, a women’s empowerment award, on March 8, International Women’s Day, for...

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Child sex abuse less rampant in Indian Catholic Church 

Published on: 11:49 am, April 5, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com Panaji: A couple of cases pertaining to sexual abuse of children within the Catholic Church have been identified in India after the Vatican approved four month ago the guidelines submitted by the Indian...

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Hans Kung writes to Pope Francis Infallibility Debate! 

Hans Kung writes to Pope Francis Infallibility Debate! Download the original attachment By Hans Kung, in OMG,  Journal of Religions and  Culture, April,2016  (Note: Hans Küng, the Catholic priest and Swiss theologian, has written the following “urgent appeal to Pope Francis to permit an...

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Power By Hook Or Crook: Editorial – Indian Currents

Dr Suresh Mathew  “A vast and diverse country such as ours cannot survive without a vibrant and functional federal structure… It is, however, a matter of great concern that the federal structure of our Republic has come under increasing strain, contrary...

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Morality and moralizing are different 

Published on: 12:30 am, April 4, 2016 Story By: Adolf Washington (Matters India) Bengaluru: Thirty eight years after Professor Bernard Haering came out with a three- volume ‘Free and Faithful in Christ’ a vacuum is being felt as far as a complete, consistent, coherent...

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Kerala bishop advocates early marriage 

Published on: 1:02 pm, April 4, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com Idukki:  Bishop Mar Mathew Anikkuzhikattil of Idukki has urged the faithful to give priority to marriage over education. In a pastoral letter, which will be read during the Sunday Mass in the churches...

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Indians sternly warned to stay away from Yemen 

Published on: 1:09 pm, April 2, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com New Delhi: The Indian government has asked its nationals to avoid traveling to Yemen in “any circumstances, by any means, for any purpose.” The April 1 stern advisory from the External Affairs Ministry...

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Vice-chancellor Washes  feet of  faculty, staff and students

By C.M. Paul, in News » Guwahati Province (ING) (Note: This  is another  example of  priests in the Latin  Rite spread all over India  graciously and joyfully  responding to the  call of Francis  Pappa to put an end    to the archaic   practice of  inequality  imposed on women  in the Syromalabar and Malankara Churches.    May it open...