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Society of St Paul gets new Indian provincial

The Society of St Paul, an international Catholic religious congregation for men, has a new leader for its India pro-vince that comprises Great Britain and Ireland, besides India. The congregation’s superior general Father Dominic Soliman on Oct. 24 appointed Father Joby Mathew as the Indian provincial during the council meeting.

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 […]

Fisherpeople storm Vizhinjam port as protests enter 100th day

Thousands of fishermen and wo-men on October 28 stormed the under construction Vizhinjam International Port by the Adani groups, throwing police barricades to the Arabian sea as the protest entered 101 days. The more than 1,500 police force remained calm as the agitated fishing community pulled up the police barricades and threw them into the […]

Islamist rebels kill nun, six others at Catholic hospital in DR Congo

A Catholic nun serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was among the seven people killed October 19 evening when gunmen aligned with the Islamic State attacked a Catholic mission hospital in a raid. Sister Marie-Sylvie Kavuke Vakatsuraki and six patients at the hospital were killed Oct. 19 when gunmen with the Allied Democratic […]