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Brazil to have a statue of Jesus larger than Christ the Redeemer

A statue of Christ is being built in Brazil that will be larger than the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue of Rio de Janeiro. The image, which has been under construction since 2019, will be called Cristo Protector and is being erected on the Cerro de las Antenas, a hill near Encantado in the state […]

WhatsApp group’s Christmas gift helps Tripura tribals fight winter

Gaspar Delerock and his wife Shanti in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu donated blankets for the poor in Tripura, northeast, as part of celebrating their wedding’s silver jubilee. Ammu Urimainathan sent her contribution forgoing her Christmas dress and Joseph Raj from Pondicherry shared his meager money left in his bank account. These people […]

Hindu cremated in parish cemetery, Kerala cm applauds

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has app-lauded a Catholic parish for allowing the cremation of Hindu Covid victim in its cemetery. “The action of Edathua church to allow the pyre of a Covid -19 patient, who was not a member of the parish, is laudable,” Vijayan told a press conference on May 27 while briefing […]

Cardinal Bo under fire for meeting Myanmar coup leader

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo’s meeting with Myanmar coup leader Min Aung Hlaing has sparked outrage among the Catholic community in the predominantly Buddhist nation. Senior General Min Aung Hlaing visited the archbishop’s house in Yangon on Dec. 23 for a Christmas event hosted by Cardinal Bo and two auxiliary bishops. The archbishop of Yangon and […]

South Korea pardons disgraced ex-president Park Geun-hye

South Korea’s ex-president Park Geun-hye received a pardon today, cutting short a jail term of more than 20 years for corruption with her successor saying he granted it in the interest of national unity. Park became South Korea’s first female president in 2013, but less than four years later she was impeached and ousted after […]

Uproar over Pakistani bakeries’ boycott of Christmas cakes

Two popular bakeries in the Pakistani city of Karachi have caused uproar on social media after refusing to decorate cakes with Christmas greetings. The controversy began after Celestia Naseem Khan, a Kara-chi-based student, reported on social media that Delizia Bakery refused to write “Merry Christ-mas” on a cake she bought. “So I recently went to […]

India-Bangladesh ties are no more refugees of the past

The agony and ecstasy associated with the birth of Bangladesh in 1971 still hold the message that religion cannot bind a nation together for long. Sheikh Mujibar Rahman and his Mukti Bahini firmly believed that the Bengalis in the east were different from West Pakistanis and thus Pakistan was splintered and Bangladesh came into being. […]

Celebrating Christmas in Muslim-majority Pakistan

The international community fed by biased news tends to presume that all Muslim-majority nations ban any kind of celebrations, which is false. Only a few among the 50 or so Muslim majority countries in the world, among them the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Tajikistan, Brunei, Morocco and Afghanistan, disallow celebrations like Christmas. Speaking for […]