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In Iceland, composer and Polish Carmelite sisters turn saints’ poetry into music

A community of 12 Polish Carmelite sisters in Hafnarfjördur, Iceland, opened 2020 with big goals in sight: This year, they will release two CDs created with the help of distinguished Icelandic composer and pianist Jónas Sen. A former keyboardist for Björk, Sen is a prominent music critic and also the author of a notable biography on Icelandic pianist and […]

‘Grave situation’ as Wuhan virus infections soar

As the spread of the Chinese respiratory coronavirus (2019-nCoV) continues to accelerate, a global pandemic and ensuing massive humanitarian tragedy are threatening the country and surrounding territories. The virus has spread to almost every province in mainland China, while Hong Kong, Taiwan and Thailand are the worst affected outside the mainland, whose Spring Festival holiday […]

Goa Church holds public protest against CAA

Hundreds of people from various religions attended a protest meet organized by the Church against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population register (NPR) in Margao, Goa’s commercial capital. “It is our common conviction that these measures are unconstitutional and therefore, unacceptable. The government must listen to the voice […]

Founder of Protestant movement returns to Catholic Church

The founder of a prominent non-denominational movement in India has returned to the Catholic faith of his baptism, after more than a decade as a Pentecostal pastor and traveling preacher. Sajith Joseph, 36, was confirmed Dec. 21, 2019 at St Mary’s Cathedral in Punalur in the southern Indian State of Kerala. His family and nearly […]

Salesians educate 300 poor children in Rajasthan villages

The Don Bosco Development Society is providing education in 10 villages in the State of Rajasthan, for 300 extremely poor and disadvantaged children, including children of farmers and workers in quarries. The educational project is supported by the van Ameringen Foundation, which provides funds for innovative and practical programs for early intervention. Don Bosco Development […]

Kerala Church welcomes state check on religious education

A church official in the southern Indian State of Kerala has welcomed a direction from the state’s High Court for privately run schools not to impart religious education without government permission. The court ruled on whether schools unaided by the state can promote a particular religion to the exclusion of other religions in elementary schools. “It is […]

Card. Tagle bids farewell to hometown

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila bade farewell to his hometown in Cavite province, south of Manila, on Jan. 20, before his expected departure for Rome. The Manila prelate was appointed prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples in last month. The 62-year-old cardinal is only the second Asian to lead the congregation, […]

Church hospitals agree to implement Mizoram government project

The Non-Governmental Hospital Association of Mizoram (NGHAM), an umbrella body of all private and church-run hospitals in the northeastern Indian state, has expressed their willingness to implement a healthcare scheme. Officials of the state health department said the association after its meeting on January 24 informed Health Minister R. Lalthangliana of its willingness to implement […]