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Norbertines elect communication expert as Mananthavady province leader‍

The province cha pter of Manantha-vady Norbertines has elected Father Jose Murickan as its ninth provincial. The election on October 19 was presided over by Abbot General Jos Wouters. Abbot Marcus Champia from the Norbertine Abbey of Jamtara was the second official of the election. Father Murickan, former director of the National Institute of Social […]

Bible youth edition released at Asian bishops’ meet

A unique edition of the Bible for the youth was released at the backdrop of the general assembly of the Fede-ration of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC), currently underway at Bang-kok, Thailand. The special edition, named ‘Iden-tity: Identified, Navigating the Cha-llenges of Life,’ was presented to the assembly by Salesian Bishop George Pallipparambil of Miao, the […]

Franciscans conduct training on project management, fundraising

More than 90 priests, nuns and lay people from across India are attending a four-day specialized training program on project management and fundraising in Kolkata. The participants for the October 21-24 program at Jesuits’ Dhyana Ashram hail from 30 religious congregations and dioceses. The training aims to train them as development personnel. They came from […]

Asian Church should become ‘more Asian, less Roman’ Fr Vimal Tirimanna

The Churches in Asia need to seize the moment to stress the Asianness of the Church as Pope Francis encourages Church communities to become more grounded through continental contextual theologies, says Redemptorist Father Vimal Tirimanna, one of Asia’s leading theologians. The 67-year-old professor of theology at the Pontifical Accademia Alfonsiana in Rome says the Federation of […]

Kandhamal violence: Collector agrees to compensate priest victim’s kin

Kandhamal Collector Ashis Ishwar Patil has promised to comply with a court order to give compensation to a kin of a Catholic priest, who died dur-ing the 2008 anti-Christian violence. “I have received the High Court Order and asked some clarifications and documents,” the collector told Benadicta Di-gal, brother of Father Bernard Diga, when he […]

Bhopal archdiocese celebrates Bible festival

The Archdiocese of Bhopal has concluded a three-day Bible Mahotsav (grand festival) with the imposition of pallium upon Archbishop Alangaram Arokia Sebastian Durairaj. The festival, a spiritual retreat for the laity, began with a procession of the Bible at 8:30 am on October 21 at Assumption Church. Father Ishwardas Minj, the vicar general of the […]