The celebration organised by the Catholic Church of Kerala in connection with the beatification of missionary nun Sr Rani Maria was held at St Mary’s Basilica in Kochi on november 11. It began at 2.45 pm with a procession carrying relics of the beatified nun from the...
Ethnic cleansing of Rohingya in Myanmar has strong parallels with the genocide of ethnic Tutsis in Rwanda, one of the worst atrocities of modern times. From April-July 1994, Hutu militias backed by the Hutu-majority government and military, massacred up to one million...
India’s tribal dominated Jharkhand state has banned people who have more than two children from contesting local body elections, which the local cardinal sees as a way to politically side-line indigenous people who traditionally have large families. The pro-Hindu...
Hindu, Sikh, Muslim and Christian leaders joined together to symbolically usher in peace by ringing a church bell in Srinagar, the main city in the violence-torn Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. The bell at the 120-year-old Holy Family Catholic Church, the largest...
The head of the Religious of Jesus and Mary congregation has welcomed a November 8 court decision to sentence a man to life imprisonment for the rape and attempted murder of a 71-year-old member in eastern India. It is a “red letter day” because “justice has been...
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