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Beside Caritas, eight other NGOs will intensively be engaged in all the 38 districts to submit the plans by end of November this year. New Delhi (UCAN): Bihar State Disaster Management Authority (BSDMA) has officially invited Caritas India to partner...
Story By: Rita Joseph (Matters India). Former pope Saint John Paul II had used the Vatican Bank to “fund” the Solidarity movement in his native Poland. The Bank, which was a “haven for mobsters, mafia men and money launderers, helped Nazis and Fascists...
Washington (Story by Matters India): An American lawmaker and a panel of four experts on Wednesday decried alleged ‘violence’ against religious minorities in India. They appealed the US administration to include human rights violations as a topic in its talks...
15 Reactions Worth Reflection (Note: All reactions are about Edapally Church built at the cost of around Rs.50 crores. For full article see: Edappally St.George Church in: http://sites.google.com/site/jameskottoorspeaking/ Great indeed is the Light House Marvel, I too must have a share in...
Rome (By Carl Bunderson, Italy, Jun 3, 2015 / 04:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Benedictine Monks of Norcia spend their lives in prayer and labor – “ora et labora” – chanting the psalms and producing crafts to support themselves. This week,...
(In the picture: Rev Libby Lane is formally installed as the Church of England’s first female bishop) London (Story by Matters India) — Support is growing within the Church of England to rewrite its official liturgies to refer to God as...
[Jonathan Luxmoore is a freelance writer covering European church news from Warsaw, Poland, and Oxford, England.] This story appeared in the June 5-18, 2015 print issue under the headline given above) (Note: This article gives a researched data on...
If the people are the Church, then the Church is already reconsidering gay marriage. By Fr. William Grimm Tokyo (FROM UCAN): Voters in Ireland have made that country the first to recognize same-sex marriage by a national referendum. Various other...
Ahmedabad (Story by Matters India) — Delhi’s ‘plastics king’, Bhanwarlal Raghunath Doshi, gave up his over 6 billion rupee business empire to embrace Jain monastic life at an extravagant ceremony in the city on Sunday. Doshi became a monk under...
By Ritu Sharma, Dehi, April 10, 2015, published in UCAnews (Note: Literally it is the IRONY OF INDIAN DEMOCRACY. Blind faith is all pervasive in all religions including Christian. In the Catholic church it is faith in rituals called religious...
He is also expected to visit a seventh century mosque and an ancient temple in Kodungalur. Kochi: (UCAN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit the centuries-old St. Thomas Church in Kodungalur, one of oldest churches in India, when he...
Vatican City, Jun 2, 2015 / 04:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis on several occasions has spoken of his strong devotion to the Little Flower saint as well as his habit of asking her for favors: favors, his former press...
Belfast, UK, Jun 2, 2015 / 12:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After a legal ruling deemed a bakery in Northern Ireland to have discriminated against a gay customer, the bakery’s owners have decided to appeal the decision, hoping to promote the...
By Elise Harris : Rome, Jun 1, 2015 / 10:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As the relics of Blessed Oscar Romero were brought out for veneration during his beatification Mass in San Salvador, the cloudy skies parted and a ring of light –...
Communist Party of India General Secretary Com. Survaram Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy's open letter to Mr Narendra Modi, Prime Minister New Delhi 29th May 2015 To,… Shri Narendra Modi Hon’ble Prime Minister Government of India New Delhi. Dear Shri...
The statistics is alarming. As many as eight lakh people die of tobacco consumption per year in India. This is about 15 per cent of the global deaths due to the killer stuff. Juxtapose this figure with the fact that...
Vatican City By Ann Schneible, May 30, 2015 / 12:16 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- “Why do children suffer?” Pope Francis asked this of a group of children with serious illnesses or disabilities and their parents, some of whom had been told to...
Villupuram (Story: Matters India): A new book published by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) highlights the Dalit Christians march toward equality and justice. Bishop A. Neethinathan of Chingelpet, chairperson of CBCI Office for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe, released...
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Sep 5, 2014 / 09:04 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A religious sister from Texas who has been serving the people of Papua New Guinea since 1986 will soon complete a website to raise awareness about the...
Jose Kavi | May. 29, 2015 [Jose Kavi is the editor-in-chief of Matters India, an important news portal in Delhi like Almayasabdam, in Kerala, focusing on religious and social issues in India. This article is part of a collaboration between National...