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Inner joy God’s gift, Justice Joseph tells Naga Catholics

Catholics are called to spread inner joy like light in the world and it can come only from God, says Justice Kurian Joseph, former Supreme Court judge. “Wealth, power, or positi-ons cannot remove darkness; only God’s light can remove darkness,” Justice Kurian told opening session of the 36th annual convention of the Catholic Association of […]

Christians, Muslims thank Odisha CM for special funds

A delegation of Christian and Muslim leaders in Odisha on February 13 met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to thank him for sanctioning funds to improve pilgrimage centres in the eastern Indian State. A day earlier, Patnaik sanctioned 160 million rupees to minority religious institutions which will be disbursed by the state’s Special Problem Fund during […]

Loreto nuns raise ‘One Billion’ voices against citizenship law

It’s not enough to talk about violence against women only. Voices have to be raised against atrocities on minorities and the marginalized as well, and anyone who is feeling insecure in the current circumstances, when even something as basic as citizenship is coming up for questioning. This was the rhetoric at the three-hour One Billion […]

Odisha woman with 31 fingers, toes branded witch

An Indian woman with 31 fingers and toes combined is suffering stigmatization at the hands of her neighbours and had to resort to staying indoors to avoid being called a witch. According to the BBC, Kumari Nayak, 63, is set to enter the Guinness World Records for having the most digits in the world – […]

Let religious people vote too, says Myanmar cardinal

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon has appealed to Myanmar’s government to scrap the constitutional provision which prohibits members of religious orders from voting in elections. He is concerned that Article 392 (a) of the constitution bars Buddhist monks and nuns, Catholic priests, nuns and religious, other Christian clergy, Muslim clerics and others from the […]

Christians in Pakistan Celebrate Court Ruling

Christians across Pakistan are rejoicing after a court on 29th January acquitted 40 men jailed for alleged involvement in the lynching of two people in a district outside Lahore. The 40 individuals, almost all of them Christians, shouted “Alleluia, Praise God” as the anti-terrorism court in Lahore ordered their release after nearly five years in […]

Asia Bibi breaks silence in new book

Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who spent years on death row after being convicted of blasphemy, has published a book about her experiences and her new life. Ms Bibi released a memoir, Enfin Libre or Finally Free, written with French journalist Anne – Isabelle Tollet. She was sentenced to death on blasphemy charges by […]

China tells some priests they can’t celebrate funerals in people’s homes

In the eastern province of Zhejiang, the government has put in force a set of regulations on centralized funeral arrangements, which bans priests from attending funeral prayers out-side a religious place, reported ucanews.com. The government claims the new rules aim to “get rid of bad funeral customs and establish a scientific, civilized and economical way […]