The Madras High Court has allowed a Women’s Religious Congregation to claim compensation for a nun, who died in a road accident 16 years ago. The Madurai bench of the court asked Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation to pay the compensation, dismissing their argument...
A new Vatican document cautions against the dangers of highly competitive children’s sports, political and economic pressures on athletes to win “at all costs” and the unsportsman like or violent behaviour of fans. The document on sports also calls on every group or...
The two Catholic priests and 17 parishioners slain by suspected herdsmen on April 24 in Benue State were buried on May 22 amid nationwide peaceful protest by the Catholic faithful. The two priests, Rev Fathers Joseph Gor and Felix Tyolaha, and 17 members of the...
Pope Francis on June 9 approved the martyrdom of Argentina’s version of Oscar Romero, a high-profile cleric who died during his country’s Dirty War. Just like Romero, he was killed by the military, though in his case through an alleged “car accident,” due to his...
India joined more than 50 other countries in praying for priests on June 8. It is the ninth year of the initiative, in which people gather at over 150 Marian shrines around the world to pray the rosary in thanksgiving for the ministry of priests, and to ask Our Lady...
