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...
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...
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...
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...
