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Mizoram urges Churches, NGOs to help contain Covid-19 cases

Mizoram Health Minister Dr Lalthangliana on April 7 urged churches, NGOs and local volunteers to revive efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19 as the state has registered a spike in coronavirus cases since March last week, an official statement said. The health minister held interaction with representatives of churches, NGOs, Mizoram Village Council Association […]

India’s top court dismisses bid for federal anti-conversion law

Catholic Church leaders have welcomed India’s top court dis-missing a petition that sought a federal law to check religious conversion and black magic. The Supreme Court of India on April 9 said persons above 18 years of age are free to choose their religion and dismissed a plea seeking directions to the federal government to […]

Indian archbishop fasts to spell out Covid-19 danger

A Catholic archbishop joined an Indian state’s chief minister on a special one-day fast to create awareness among people about the need to protect themselves from Covid-19. “It is our duty and respon-sibility to protect ourselves and others from the danger of Covid-19,” said Archbishop Leo Cornelio of Bhopal. Madhya Pradesh’s Chief Minister Shivraj Singh […]

Palm Sunday bombing at cathedral in Indonesia injures Catholics leaving Mass

A suspected suicide bomb attack targeted Catholics leaving a cathedral after Palm Sunday Mass on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The explosion occurred March 28 out-side Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar, capital of South Sulawesi pro-vince, as church-goers were exiting the cathedral at the start of Holy Week. Initial reports said that at […]

Vatican statistics show continued growth in number of Catholics worldwide

The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world has shown steady growth, while the number of religious men and women continued to decrease, according to Vatican statistics. At the end of 2019, the worldwide Catholic population exceeded 1.34 billion, which continued to be about 17.7% of the world’s population, said an article published […]

Vatican bars gay union blessing, says God ‘can’t bless sin’

The Vatican decreed March 15 that the Catholic Church won’t bless same-sex unions since God cannot bless sin. The Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issued a formal response March 15 to a question about whether Catholic clergy have the authority to bless gay unions. The answer, contained in a […]

Vatican Now in Crisis Management Mode with German Bishops

In January, two Vatican cardinals wanted to summon the president of the German bishops’ conference to Rome and correct him about a media interview in which he expressed his dissent from Church teaching in a number of areas. Such a meeting, which some believe should have been used to give the Vatican’s formal opposition to […]

Catholic Church ‘has no future’ without women

Women of faith celebrated International Women’s day with discussions on women’s future in the Catholic Church and by exploring if women have been written out of scripture. “We are talking about the survival of the Church,” said Joanna Moorhead, The Tablet’s Arts editor, who has written widely on the subject of women in the Church […]