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Editorial in The Asian Age, Feb 21, 2016 (Note: The time may have come to revisit eligibility rules for reservations so that an individual’s economic condition is given significant weight in any calculation. Compare this views Asian Age with that...
Editorial, in the Hindu, February 24, 2016 (Note: Turbulent backdrop of unrest indeed is what one sees every where in India today from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, East cost to West coast. Politics in India has become really a very...
By Elise Harris Vatican City, Feb 23, 2016 / 11:23 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis celebrated the feast of the Chair of St. Peter with a reflection and Mass for members of the Roman Curia, during which he told them to be...
Father Leon Cruz is among some 1000 priests Pope Francis selected as Missionaries of Mercy. Story by UCAN- Posted on February 23, 2016, 5:56 PM Mumbai: Father Leon Cruz,the only Indian Salesian appointed as a Missionary of Mercy on Ash Wednesday, has...
Published on: 3:25 pm, February 23, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com Mumbai: Jesus Christ was a Tamil Brahmin and Christianity was a Hindu cult, claims a 70-year-old book that is being reissued this week by a rightwing Hindu group in Mumbai. The book, “Christ...
Published on: 9:59 pm, February 22, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com New Delhi: Highest incidence of joblessness was witnessed among Christians in cities as well as in rural area while Hindus and Sikhs reported least unemployment in urban and rural areas, says a government...
(In the pic: Indian Aam Admi Party activists hold posters during a rally against the gang rape and murder of a teenager in Kolkata on Jan. 5, 2014. Soni Sori, a party member and tribal activist, had a harmful chemical...
Several families from the community agreed to the relocation but others have refused to budge. UCAN – Posted on February 22, 2016, 11:57 AM United States: More than 100 members of the Indian Knanaya Catholic Community in the United States on...
By: C. M. Paul – Matters India: Published on 10:24 pm, February 21, 2016 Mumbai — The film, ‘Jesus of Nazareth’, by award-winning Italian director, Franco Zeffirelli, is dubbed into Marathi and is now available online for Lent 2016 in four parts depicting the agony, death...
Over 25 Members of 6 AP Churches Meet By Fr Dr Anthoniraj Thumma, Executive Secretary of FTC FTC GENERAL BODY MEETING:Held on Feb. 17, 2016, at St. John’s Regional Seminary, Hyderabad (Note: What is noteworthy in this meet...
The founder of Christianity may not be the person commonly known as Jesus of Nazareth, but Paul of Tarsus, a hellenised Jew and a Roman citizen, whose trade was making tents for Roman army out of cured animal skins, the...
Washington D.C., Feb 20, 2016 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- God commanded it, Jesus practiced it, Church Fathers have preached the importance of it – fasting is a powerful and fundamental part of the Christian life. But for many Catholics...
Dear Dr James, Thank you for publicizing in CCV this historic moment of the Church in India. I have also read Archbishop Bharanikulangara’s response to you. Laity4Unity believes we need to take a step back from this very emotive issue –...
by Elise Harris. (In the pic: Pope Francis greets pilgrims during his general audience Jan. 13, 2016. Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA. Vatican City, Feb 20, 2016 / 04:46 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Saturday Pope Francis held his second Saturday general audience of the...
The church also houses an educational complex, however, the suspects did not go there. UCAN: on February 19, 2016, 8:25 AM Pune: Three men broke into a church in Pune and decamped with two donation boxes containing 25,000 rupees. After an...
Dear Mr. Kottoor, I am surprised by your statement that “the Eparchy leadership was adamant that all should be registered members to get sacramental service.” From where did you invent this? As Bishop of Faridabad I have never held this position....
Joshua J. McElwee, in NCR, Feb. 17, 2016 Pope Francis prays at a cross on the border with El Paso, Texas, before celebrating Mass at the fairgrounds in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Feb. 17. (CNS/Paul Haring) (Note: Conversion or change for...
Indian government overreacting to student protests, critics say. New Delh (UCAN) Posted on February 19, 2016, 9:25 PM: (In the pic: The Indian national flag is waved at a protest against the arrest of an Indian student for sedition in New Delhi...
Delhi Orientals: Rome denies general permission Published on: 3:49 am, February 19, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com reporter New Delhi: The Vatican congregation for the Oriental Churches has resolved a controversy among Oriental Catholics living in the Indian capital region. It has favorably considered...
Mexico City, Mexico, Feb 18, 2016 / 02:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Sabrina Puig is eight years old. Due to a rare condition, she only has half a heart. But when Pope Francis passed by, she ran to him. Sabrina and...