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The ‘battle for the bottle’ in India’s Gujarat state

India’s apostle of peace, Mahatma Gandhi, would turn in his grave if he were to witness the “battle for the bottle” in his home province Gujarat ahead of crucial state polls later this year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bête noire and old war horse, Shankarsinh Vaghela, has once again thrown his hat in the electoral […]

Statue vandalized, parish priest’s vehicle burnt in Punjab

Some unidentified miscreants on August 31 vandalized a Marian statue kept in front of a church in Patti, an old town in the northern Indian state of Punjab. They also set ablaze the car of the parish priest. According to a message from Father Thomas Poochalil, the parish priest of Infant Jesus Catholic Church in […]

Pope Francis asks businesses to support working women: They’re ‘afraid to get pregnant’

Pope Francis is stressing the importance of accommodating pregnant women as employees — and calling on the business world to find a solution. “Please, this is a problem for working women: Study it, see how to make sure that a pregnant woman can go on, both with the child she is expecting and with her […]

Pope Francis on papal plane: ‘I’m always ready to go to China’

Pope Francis told journalists on the papal plane on September 13 that he is ready for the first papal trip to China. In a conversation with reporters on the flight from Rome to Kazakhstan on Sept. 13, the pope said: “I’m al-ways ready to go to China.” Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit […]

How this religious order’s foundress found peace in the Catholic Church

Mother Olga grew up in war-torn Iraq but found peace within the Catholic Church, establishing a new religious order to share Christ’s light with others. Montse Alvarado, host of EWTN News In-Depth, recently spoke to the foundress of the Daughters of Mary of Nazareth about her childhood in war-torn Iraq, her steadfast devotion to Our […]

Study: Christianity may lose majority, plurality status in U.S. by 2070

If trends of the past 30 years continue for the next 50, Christianity will lose its majority status in the United States by 2070, according to a new demographic study by the Pew Research Centre. If those trends, first identified in 1990, accelerate over the next half-century, Christianity will have fewer adherents than Americans who […]

Italian missionary nun killed in Mozambique

Sister Maria De Coppi, a Comboni missionary sister, was murdered by Islamist terrorists on Tuesday in Mozambique, where she had served as a missionary for nearly 60 years. The attack in which Sister Maria de Coppi, 83, was shot and killed was carried out the night of Sept. 6 in Chipene. In the attack on […]

Exiled priest explains why pope did not use strong words about persecution in Nicaragua

A Nicaraguan priest living in exile in the United States pointed out that although Pope Francis in his Aug. 21 Sunday Angelus did not speak about Nicaragua in the way that some expected him to, if he had used stronger words, the mobs of the dictatorship “would have stormed the churches that same Sunday.” Father […]