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Quality, not quantity, important in vocations: Pope Francis

Vatican City: Pope Francis has urged those responsible for training future priests and nuns to develop the ability to say no to those they find lacking in quality to lead a vowed life. “Vocational discernment is important,” the Pope told...

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Indian cardinal does a Pope Francis at church blessing

Kochi (Matters India): The head of the Syro-Malabar Church, one of India’s Oriental rites, did a Pope Francis while consecrating what is claimed to be India’s largest church. Cardinal George Alencherry minced no words in criticizing what he saw were...

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Seeing Stars in the Daylight – Indian Currents Editorial

Leave Judiciary Alone Dr Suresh Mathew It is never too difficult to deliver justice within the boundaries of the law and Constitution….. There is a need to be cautious against perception-driven verdicts that are often driven by five-star activists.” This...

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National peace movement launched

The movement also aims to educate the youth about India's pluralism and the need to be sensitive towards under privileged. Indore (UCAN):  Peace activists from different religions across India together launched a national movement for peace Thursday in Indore aiming...

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Church attacks: priests express concern over security

Mathura (matters India): Christian priests in Mathura on Friday raised security concern after an attack on the 95-year-old St. Mary’s Church in Agra on Thursday. The priests fear that they, too, could be attacked by anti-social elements. “The desperate elements...

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Catholic Church Reform – CCRInt’l on move

April 18, 2015   Dear Supporters of Catholic Church Reform International (CCRI),   In the spirit of the Vatican II Ecumenical Council, CCRI is searching for a genuine sensus fidelium(sense of the faithful) that reflects the real concerns of millions of...

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Catholic priest sees Satan in Islamic State

Rome(Matters India): In a recent Facebook post, well-known Roman exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth said the Islamic State (ISIS) “is Satan,” and he also questioned the lack of response from Western nations. “ISIS is Satan. Things first happen in the spiritual...

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Marian statue tied with dog chain, bishops demand action

Agra (Matters India Reporter): Unidentified miscreants broke statues and tied a dog chain to Mother Mary’s neck as they vandalized a Catholic church in Agra, a top tourist spot in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Father Eugene Moon Lazarus,...

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Dictators’ democracy

By Jug Suraiya,April 15, 2015, in Times of India.            (Dictatorship of the proletariat is the only thing that has not struck root in India. It is now reduced to God’s own land, Kerala, where it...

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Fewer Kerala women join convents

This trend coincides with a slowdown in the growth of Christian population in India and their improving prosperity, say social activists and Church representatives. Kochi:  The number of Kerala women joining convents is fast dwindling because of shrinking family sizes...

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Muslim women set new trends in Kerala

Story By: mattersindia.comKozhikode: K K Fathima Suhra, a middle aged post graduate Muslim woman in Kerala, was busy in shopping for her school going child. Like most of the educated Muslim women in the state, the native of Santhapuram village...