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Indian awarded for training maximum addiction professionals

Thomas Scaria, a renowned expert in addiction management, training and consultancy, has become the first Indian to receive “International Awa-rd for Excellence in Training Provision.” Scaria, who heads the Mangaluru-based Ecolink Institu-te of Well-being, received the award May 14 at a function in Abu Dhabi. The award is instituted by the International Society for Substance […]

Father Subhash Anand’s sudden death mourned

Father Subhash Anand, a renowned philosophy professor who challenged Catholics in India to become Christ’s authentic disciples, died of a massive heart attack May 23 in Udaipur, Rajasthan. He was 78. Bishop Devprasad Ganawa of Udaipur has informed that the funeral begins at 10 am on May 24. Father Anand, a priest of the diocese […]

Sri Lankan court imposes travel ban on protesting priest

A Sri Lankan court has ordered a travel ban on a Catholic priest for being part of the “GotaGoGama” protests demanding President Gotabaya Rajpaksha’s resignation over the nation’s worsening economic situation. Officials from the Criminal Investigation Department in-formed Father Amila Jeewantha Pieris about the travel ban on May 23. The activist priest has been involved […]

Church grows in North Korea despite persecution: Korean archbishop

One of South Korea’s most senior clergymen says he believes Catholic Church in communist North Korea is growing although Catholics live in hiding and endure persecution. Archbishop Victorinus Yoon Kong-hi, the former head of the Archdiocese of Gwangju in South Korea, has made the remarks in a recently published book on the history of the […]

Indian Catholics welcome Pope’s move on religious brothers

Indian Catholics, both lay people and religious, have welcomed Pope Francis ushering in equality and fraternity in religious congregations that have priests and brothers as members. “It is not a small technical or legal change but a profound shift with enormous theological and spiritual implications,” Delhi-based Jesuit moral theologian Father Stanislaus Alla told on May […]

Karnataka governor ignores Christians’ pleas, signs anti-conversion ordinance

The Karnataka government has passed an ordinance to abolish religious conversions in the southern Indian state ignoring resistance from the Catholic Church and other groups. Karnataka Governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot ordinance on May 17 signed the ordinance a day after a Catholic delegation headed by Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore appealed against the ordinance through […]

Only 10% Indians have 25,000 rupee monthly income

The latest State of Inequality in India Report indicates a vast income distribution disparity in the country. The report prepared by Economic Advisory Council to the prime minister shows the need to address gaps to help the country achieve social progress and shared prosperity. India has proved the overall condition of households, with access to […]

Peace activist launch interreligious prayer in Varanasi

Peace activists from various religions have launched a series of interreligious prayer services at different parts of Varanasi as sectarian tension over the Gyan Vapi mosque controversy gripped Hinduism’s most sacred city. “These prayers are taken from ten different religious sources namely Hindu, Tao, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Jain, Buddhist, Christian and Muslim faith tra-ditions. They were […]