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Indian Catholics strive to restore Portuguese heritage church

An Indian court has allow-ed a Catholic activist to inter-vene in an ongoing legal battle to reclaim, restore and declare a 16th century Portuguese-era church as a historical monu-ment. Melwyn Fernandes was appointed an intervener to ex-pedite the case filed by Mumbai archdiocesan clergy to reclaim Our Lady of Mercy Church (Nossa Senhora Des Merces) […]

Gaza: Lebanon hostage to Hezbollah. Southern Christians fear ‘large-scale war’

Cut off from the world, surrounded by the outbreak of war in Gaza by the firepower of the Israeli army intent on repelling the infiltrations of Hezbollah and the Palestinian commandos of the al-Qassam brigades, part of Hamas: these are the conditions of the inhabitants remaining in the town of Rmeich (around 10 thousand people) […]

Latin America sees significant drop in Catholic baptisms

Is secularization gradually overtaking Latin America? Either way, the Catholic Church, which remains very strong in this part of the world, is showing signs of decline. This is borne out by figures from a recently published study conducted by the Episcopal Conference of Latin America (CELAM). Latin America still has the world’s largest Catholic population. […]

Number of bishops, priests decline, according to Vatican statistics

The number of Catholic priests and bishops worldwide have decreased while the overall number of Catholics have increased, according to the latest Church’s Book of Statistics. Every year Fides News Agency puts together a Church statistics ahead of World Mission Sunday, which this year is celebrated on October 22, The numbers were collated from the latest Church’s […]

Pope Francis intervenes at the synod, calling clericalism a ‘scourge’ that ‘enslaves’ God’s people

Pope Francis told members of the synod on synodality that they should respect and honor the faith of all baptized Catholics, including the women, trusting “the holy, faithful people of God” who continue to believe even when their pastors act like dictators. “I like to think of the church as the simple and humble people […]

Nigerian Church reeling from relentless kidnappings

Brother Godwin Eze, one of three Benedictine monks kidnapped by an armed gang on the night of 17 October from the Eruku Monastery in Kwara State, North Central Nigeria, has been killed by his captors. The other two abducted postulants, Anthony Eze and Peter Olarewaj, were freed on 21 October. Brother Godwin Eze was killed […]

Synod, October 25: Assembly approves message: listen to everyone

The Synod of Bishops has issued a “Letter to the People of God,” describing the work of the October meeting and asking all the faithful to “concretely participate” in the synod process that will continue through the next year and conclude with another plenary assembly in October 2024. As this year’s assembly nears its conclusion, […]

Tea Garden parish celebrates mission centenary

A tea garden parish in the Dooars area of Jalpaiguri district of North Bengal has celebrated 100 years of founding of Catholic community. Bishop Clement Tirkey of Jalpaiguri welcomed Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal, Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli and seven other bishops of Bengal to the centenary Eucharist with some 100 plus priests, scores of […]