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POLICE PURSUE CHRISTIAN DONATIONS

Officials probing more than 80 Indian Christian institutions in eastern Indian Jharkhand State have recommended a federal investigation on fund diversions, which church leaders say is an attempt to project Christians as law breakers. The state’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has recommended a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the premier agency under the federal […]

BISHOPS, SISTERS DISCUSS DECLINING NUMBERS OF U.S. WOMEN RELIGIOUS

The precipitous decline in the number of women in religious life and what it means to the Church has people thinking about how to prepare for the future. Their actions stem from data gathered by the National Religious Retirement Office at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that projects an estimated 300 women’s religious institutes […]

WORLD POPULATION OF CATHOLICS INCREASE BY 14 MILLION

Every year, just in time for World Mission Day, Agenzia Fides releases a report which takes stock of the world’s population of Catholics. This year, in celebration of their 92nd WMD, they announced that the Church had grown by 14 million faithful since 2015. The numbers are taken from the “Church’s Book of Statistics,” which examines members of the church, church structures, […]

WOMEN’S VOICE NEEDED TO FIGHT CLERICALISM, ‘MACHO’ CULTURE, CARDINAL OUELLET SAYS

The church needs to further integrate women into ecclesial life to confront the problems of clericalism and an exaggerated sense of masculinity, a Vatican official told the Synod of Bishops. In his address to the Synod members on Oct. 18, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, said he agreed with the working […]

CONSTANTINOPLE REFUSES TO SEVER COMMUNION WITH RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

Constantinople remains in communion with the Russian Orthodox Church despite the severance of Eucharistic communion between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Constantinople Patriarchate, the exarchate of Russian parishes in Western Europe said. “Dear brothers and sisters, we inform you that our bishops and exarchs who are in the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate remain […]

NETHERLANDS: RELIGIOUS BELONGING AND ATTENDANCE STILL DECREASING. ONLY 6% OF THOSE WHO SAY THEY ARE CATHOLIC ATTEND SUNDAY MASS

51% of Dutch people over 15 years of age do not belong to any Church or to any religion whatsoever. Just released by the National Statistics Bureau (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek) as part of a survey of “social cohesion and welfare,” this figure shows a further decrease in the religious belonging of the Dutch: […]

ENDING INDIA’S GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR CATHOLICS

Benny D’Souza remembers good past times at Christmas when he enjoyed a week of sumptuous meals and quality time in India’s western Pune city with a local Christian Mascarenhas family that traces its roots to Portuguese missionaries. “We were poor and the parish organized that I have lunch and spend the evening with the Mascarenhas […]

A CHRISTIAN DOCTOR ARRESTED FOR ‘FORCED CONVERSION’ OF A CHILD

A Christian veterinary surgeon was arrested by the Jharkhand police on charges of forcibly converting a 13-year-old girl by offering her money. The arrest took place in Pakur on October 16, following the complaint filed by the child’s father the day before. Speaking to AsiaNews Sajan K George, president of the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC), condemns […]