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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...
By Elise Harris. Vatican City, Apr 7, 2016 / 06:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis will travel to the Greek island of Lesbos next Saturday, April 16, where he will meet with ecumenical leaders and refugees, the Vatican announced Thursday. Director of...
By Satish Misra, in New Indian Express, 03rd April 2016 (Note: Desert Rose is replete with healing and hurtful images which have a great deal of relevance for Saudi Arabia the richest nation...
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...
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...
Get reconciled like Francis Pappa Christopher Lamb in Rome in Tablet UK, April5/16 Last Saturday the Pope held a 40 minute meeting in the Vatican with the leader of SSPX, Bishop Bernard Fellay, It might be described as the “open...
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...
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...
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...
Each parish will be asked to submit their detailed work report, photographs and other evidence to support their claims. Posted on April 5, 2016, 2:45 PM Kozhikode (UCAN): A first in the history of the Catholic Church in the country,...
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...
Vatican City, Apr 4, 2016 / 01:31 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis marked the Feast of the Annunciation on Monday by reflecting on the power of Mary’s “yes” to God. “Mary’s ‘yes’ opens the door to Jesus’ ‘yes’: I have...
Mumbai (UCAN): Posted on April 5, 2016, 7:44 AM A parishioner said, “There was illegal construction done and church property was used for commercial purposes.” St Joseph’s parish in Mira Road in Mumbai is going through turbulent times, with at...
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...
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...
Kottayam Diocese and St.Pius X – Francis meets traditionalist Joshua J. McElwee,in NCR, Apr. 4, 2016 In the pic: Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior of the Society of St. Pius X, is pictured near an image of St. Pius X at the...
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...
Curtsy: The Voice Of Bombay's Catholic Laity – Posted on March 21, 2016 (Source: Catholic Herald.co.uk – posted on Thursday, 17 Mar 2016 ). Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (PA) The Vatican liturgy...
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...
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...