The beatifica-tion of Sr Rani Maria has seen the elevation of her home parish in Kerala as a pilgri-mage centre of the Syro-Malabar Church. The St Thomas Church at Pulluvazhi near Perumbavoor has been declared a pilgrimage centre by Syro-Malabar Major Archbishop...
In 2006, while he was visiting Regensburg, Germany, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI delivered an address in which he cited a 14th century dialogue between a Byzantine emperor and a Persian, unleashing a firestorm of protest across the Islamic world. Benedict’s quote cited...
How are so many conversions taking place in oppressive countries where proselytizing can bring a death sentence? “We are in a time of the first ever mass conversions of Muslims,” Father Mitch Pacwa SJ told me in a phone interview. “God is doing a mighty work among...
Pope Francis has avoided any specific mention of Myanmar’s multiple conflicts, including the Rohingya refugee crisis, during his Nov. 28 public address set piece at the national capital Nay Pyi Taw. Instead, the first trip ever to a country by any Pope, he chose to...
A prominent Bangladeshi Catholic musician has written a book containing Bible stories that rhyme to help Christian children read and understand the Bible better. Card Patrick D’Rozario of Dhaka launched the book called Chhonde Pobitro Bibeler Golpo (Selected Stories...
