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Sri Lanka dragged into global conflict with Islamic extremism

The sudden deterioration of the security situation in Sri Lanka has come as a shock to its people. Five days after a series of suicide bombings on Easter Sunday killed more than 250 people, injured over 500, wrecked three Christian churches and caused substantial damage to three five-star hotels, Sri Lanka continues to be in […]

Funding restrictions cripple Church agencies in Pakistan

Christian groups in Pakistan are trying to stop the government closing their bank accounts as part of a process it says is in-tended to throttle foreign funding to terrorist organizations. The government has revoked the licenses of thousands of non-governmental agencies and thus prevented them receiving foreign funding, including from Christian non-governmental agencies. “The future […]

The secret lives of Vietnam’s Catholic mothers

Mary Nguyen closes the door carefully and says evening prayers with her two children in her room whenever her husband comes home late from work. And Nguyen, who lives in the house of her Buddhist parents-in-law, quietly takes them to weekend Masses once or twice a month at a church near her own parents’ home […]

Muslims pray in church during citizenship protest in Kerala

This could be the first such incident when the Maghrib (evening) prayer was recited from a church and hundreds of Muslims offered Namaz in a church compound. It happened in Kothamangalam, in Kerala’s Ernakulam district on December 28. It was a massive rally organized by the All India Professional Congress, against the Citizenship Amendment Act […]

Cardinal Alencherry addresses 12th world confluence of humanity

Spiritual leaders from six religions, including Cardinal George Alencherry, attended the 12th World Confluence of Humanity, Power and Spirituality in Kolkata. Karan Singh, noted scholar, philosopher and politician, delivered the key-note address on the opening day on December 28. “We live in an age of turmoil,” Singh noted in his speech. According to him, despite […]

Jesus had questionable citizenship, says Indian Jesuit chief

Jesus was born with questionable identities of citizen-ship, place of origin and even parenthood, points out Father George Pattery, the head of more than 4,000 Jesuits in In-dia, where a recent amendment to the citizenship law has provoked countrywide uproar. “In fact (Jesus) was born in a makeshift manger while his ‘parents’ were struggling to […]

A colourful Christmas convoy for peace in India

More than 500 Christians from various denominations took part in a vehicle convoy that stretch-ed ten kilometres in the Hindu heartland of Bhopal on Dec. 15 to share the Christmas message of peace and harmony. Abp Leo Cornelio of Bhopal, based in the capital of Madhya Pradesh state in central India, took part in the […]

Calcutta archdiocese honours Loreto Sisters’ green initiative

The Archdiocese of Calcutta has honoured the Loreto congregation for planting nearly 140,000 trees and adopting solar power for all their educational institutions. Sister Sabrina Edwards, provincial of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Loreto Sisters, on December 14 received the award for her congregation’s green efforts at the All Faith Climate Conference […]