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Kerala: Church slams PM Modi’s family planning remark

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement during his Independence Day speech that “family planning is a form of patriotism” seems to have irked Kerala’s Catholic Church. Pro-Life Committee under the Kerala Catholic Bishop’s Council has issued a communique expressing their opposition to PM Modi’s statement. “Not only do they (small households) contribute to the welfare of […]

Interfaith dialogue meet in Kolkata voices concern

The residence of Catholic archbishop in Kolkata hosted an Inter-Faith dialogue meeting on August 18 where people cutting across religious voiced concern over changing pattern of leadership in India. Archbishop Thomas D’Souza of Calcutta welcomed members of different religious to the brain storming discussion towards evolving a strategy to build peace and harmony in society. […]

Huge decline in religious studies in British Schools

Religious studies has shown a large decline at GCSE, with less than half of secondary schools now offering the subject. According to a new report conducted by academics at Liver-pool Hope University and backed by Culham St Gabriel’s, a trust that supports excellence in religious education, the numbers of schools participating in GCSE Religious Studies […]

Lay Catholics Must Be More Attentive to Financial Abuse

Sexual abuse isn’t the only scandal confronting the Catholic Church. There is a growing recognition that financial abuse is more prevalent than most Catholics think. Look no further than the case of the disgraced former bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia: Bishop Michael Joseph Bransfield. Once a little-known leader in the Church, Bishop Bransfield burst into […]

Tamil Nadu party seeks enumeration of Dalit Christians, Muslims

With pre-testing for Census 2021 currently underway, a political party in Tamil Nadu has called for the enumeration of Christians and Muslims of Dalit origin in the Scheduled Caste list. D. Ravikumar of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK, Liberation Panthers Party) has reiterated its demand that Dalit persons belonging to Christian or Muslim faiths be extended […]

Catholics in fear as Chinese authorities ban religious education

Communist authorities in mainland China are exerting a clampdown on Christian activities in the country, spreading fear among some church members about their long-term futures. Dioceses in China have been receiving constant warnings about a prohibition on summer camps and many local churches have been pressured into giving up all related activities. Some church members […]

Duterte declares Virgin Mary’s nativity feast a holiday

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law declaring September 8 of every year, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Catholic Church, a “national special working holiday.” The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the oldest Marian solemnities and one of the principal feasts of the […]

India declines to speak at UNSC session on minorities

India declined to speak at an informal session of the UN Security Council on safety of minorities in conflict when it was invited to take its turn on Aug. 29th. India was listed as a speaker at the informal consultation, but when Poland’s Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz, who was chairing the session, asked India to […]