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Nun braves debilitating disease to manage “rosary bank”

Sister Rini Rose was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was 26. As a result, she has become physically weak, which limits and slows down her movements. Rose made her first profession at the age of 20 as a member of the Sisters of the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, a congregation based in the […]

Extinction rebellion: Indian Catholics urged to have bigger families

Catholic bishops want Christian families in Kerala to have more children after the national census recorded a drastic decline in the community’s population in the southern Indian state. The Christian population in the state declined from 24.06% in the 1950s to 18.33% in 2011, according to the census report. “Fifty years ago Christians in the […]

Catholic press body mourns death of last surviving founder

The Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA) on August 26 mourned the death of its last survivor earlier in the day. Monsignor Benedict Aguiar had led the organisation as its president from 1969 to 1978. “In his death the ICPA has lost a father-figure. His long and illustrious life and legacy as priest, communicator, historian, author […]

India’s Eastern Church moves for uniform liturgy ignoring opposition

Synod of the Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church has decided to implement a uniform mode of celebrating mass in all its 35 dioceses from Nov. 28, ignoring the opposition from a section of priests and laity. All dioceses will celebrate the liturgy in a uniform way by next April 17,  Easter Sunday of 2022, said the […]

India seeks to curtail privileges of minority schools

A Catholic official in India has criticized as “politically motivated” a federal commission’s recommendations to curtail the rights of schools run by religious minorities such as Christians. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), in a study released last week, sought to bring minority schools, most of them run by Christian institutions, under […]

Skewed sex ratio leads to dubious marriages in India

They say marriages are made in heaven but in the western Indian state of Gujarat, a dubious syndicate of paid agents is playing matchmaker for the mostly jobless boys from the prosperous Patel community and young girls from the indigenous Adivasi communities. The consequences are evidently disturbing and causing much pain and loss to the […]

Chinese abp: Three stages to ‘drama’ involving church, communists

The ongoing “drama” between Chinese Catholics and the nation’s communist leaders has three stages, said Chinese Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai, the Vatican’s nuncio to Greece. The current stage in the drama, in effect since 2013, is one of “shrinking and getting confused,” Hon said. “As a result of the drama, people feel so disoriented, disconnected,” […]

Roots of Peace founder fears for her nearly 400 employees in Afghanistan

Roots of Peace founder Heidi Kuhn is on a dead-line-driven, life-or-death mission to get her nearly 400 employees out of Afghanistan by Aug. 31. The Taliban took over the organization’s com-pound in Kabul Aug. 15. President Joe Biden vowed Aug. 24 in a statement with G7 leaders to stick to the end-of-the-month deadline he set […]