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Popular as ever but Criticism doesn't abate By Nicole Winfield, in Crux all things Catholic Associated Press December 17, 2015 Pope Francis blew out a candle on a birthday cake he received from group of Catholic Action youths he met...
By Elise Harris. Rome, Italy, Dec 17, 2015 / 03:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Though it has been almost a decade since a spat of violence left nearly 100 Christians dead in the Indian state of Odisha, it’s still foggy as to whether...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon delivers a speech during the UN Conference on Sustainable Development. Members should take the suggestion of electing the first female secretary general of the United Nations seriously. (AFP Photo) We need a woman Secretary General Hindustan...
Australian Graham Staines and his two young sons died in 1999 when their car was set on fire by a mob. Mumbai: (UCAN) – A missionary whose husband and children were burned alive by Hindu nationalists has been given a prestigious...
Pune (Story – Matters India): A green group in a Jesuit philosophy college in Pune, western India, has set up a herbal garden and named it after Pope Francis. The Pope Francis Herbal Garden, started by the De Nobili College...
(Note: Science and technology are dragging people to stay together and work together. Instant communication has made this wide world into a global village where people are forced to rub shoulders with each other and support each other, not fight...
(Note: This story is forwarded to us by our friend Allen Johannes. Stories are not facts. Both have their own power to teach us precious lessons. Today happens to be Dec.17 and this story also took place on a...
(Matters India): Pope Francis today warned Catholics against fraudsters who would have them pay to pass through “Holy Doors” at cathedrals around the world, a ritual in the Church’s current Jubilee year. “Be careful. Beware anyone who might be a...
By Matt Hadro. Washington D.C., Dec 16, 2015 / 05:15 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Religious leaders responded to global violence and terrorism with solidarity and prayer on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. “We will stand together, strengthened by the faith of each one in...
(Note: Swami Snehananda Jyoti, spent most of his life as a clinical psychologist in USA. He began his public life as a Jesuit priest. Quite attracted in distinct philosophies, he left the society and founded 'East West Awakening'. He has...
Posted in UCAN India, on December 17, 2015, (Note: A severe head ache can happen to any healthy person. The remedy is not decapitation. So it look a bit outlandish to ask for the removal of a reputed college....
With the draft of the resolution having a reference to "political intolerance", some Left leaders used it to attack the Trinamool govt. Kolkotta – UCAN: Lawmakers of the ruling Trinamool Congress, and opposition Left Front and the Congress found...
New Delhi (Story – Times of India): The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought to dispel the notion about rigidity of Hinduism harboured in certain quarters and said it was the "collective wisdom and inspiration of the centuries" even as it...
St Teresa in Ecstasy by Bernini in the Cornaro Chapel in Rome's Santa Maria della Vittoria (Wikipedia) by Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith taken from Catholic Herald (This thought provoking piece is published in the Voice of Bombay’s Catholic Laity. We are...
The church will also have new halls for pilgrims to rest, an auditorium, a food court and souvenir shops. India (UCAN):Visitors to the 416-year-old Bandel Church in Hooghly district of West Bengal will be in for a very pleasant surprise...
Forensic facial expert reconstructs Jesus Christ's face using ancient skulls Rose Troup Buchanan,The Independent | Dec 15, 2015, 11.35 AM IST READ MORE Jesus Christ's Face| Jesus Christ Do you recognize this man? He appears a world-away from western representations of Jesus Christ...
The New Indian Express, Editorial, 15th December 2015 (Note: Comparisons are odious. Still we have to make them, to get connected with outside world and to judge where we stand and what we have to learn from other countries...
Forwarded by newsletter from Together for the Common Good Emmanuel – God with us – calls us to a story of relationship, of love: a story of a common life together. The kind of justice that flows from this stems from...
by Elise Harris. Vatican City, Dec 13, 2015 / 03:40 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Gaudete Sunday Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of Rome’s basilica of St. John Lateran, telling attendees that the joy of Jesus’ birth overcomes the sadness caused by...
By ucanindia reporter – Ranchi: Cardinal Telesphore P Toppo has urged Christians to become more humane and follow a set of virtues that will help them become closer to Jesus. Cardinal Toppo in his homely during the opening of the Jubilee...