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Rani Maria cleared for beatification‍

Sister Rani Maria, Franciscan Clarist nun who was assassinated in central India 22 years ago, has been cleared for beatification by the Vatican on Mar 23. Beatification is the penultimate stage in the four-phased canonization process in the Catholic Church. Rani Maria’s cause of canonization began

The happiest countries in the world: Norway in first place, China ranked 79th despite economic growth

According to a The World Happiness Report 2017, Norway is the happiest country on Earth. Americans are a bit ‘more sad, the Chinese as happy as 25 years ago. The report shows that money is not everything for the people of the 155 countries studied. The rankings are based on gross domestic product per person, […]

Fresh concerns for Rome in new China church rules

China’s two government appointed Catholic bodies have released their revised constitu-tions with “Sinicization” as a central concept, seen as part of a broader strategy by Beijing to make all religion in the country more “Chinese.” Other changes in the appointment of senior officials finds the government -run bodies at even greater odds with standard Vatican […]

Nepal’s Christians have to trek into mountains to bury their dead 

One way in which the freedom of religion or belief in a country can be measured is whether minorities are permitted to carry out their own rituals during key ‘rites of passage’ such as birth, marriage and death. One of the world’s fastest-growing Christian communities is that in Nepal. Between the censuses of 2001 and […]

No women for foot-washing ritual: Syro-Malabar church

The Syro-Malabar Catholic Church will stick to the traditional practice of performing foot-washing on Maundy Thursday on men only with the Vatican exempting it from its decree allowing participation of women in the ritual. Head of the Syro-Malabar Church Cardinal George Alencherry has issued a circular stating that the Church wished to keep the Eastern […]