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Franciscans conduct training on project management, fundraising

More than 90 priests, nuns and lay people from across India are attending a four-day specialized training program on project management and fundraising in Kolkata. The participants for the October 21-24 program at Jesuits’ Dhyana Ashram hail from 30 religious congregations and dioceses. The training aims to train them as development personnel. They came from […]

Asian Church should become ‘more Asian, less Roman’ Fr Vimal Tirimanna

The Churches in Asia need to seize the moment to stress the Asianness of the Church as Pope Francis encourages Church communities to become more grounded through continental contextual theologies, says Redemptorist Father Vimal Tirimanna, one of Asia’s leading theologians. The 67-year-old professor of theology at the Pontifical Accademia Alfonsiana in Rome says the Federation of […]

Kandhamal violence: Collector agrees to compensate priest victim’s kin

Kandhamal Collector Ashis Ishwar Patil has promised to comply with a court order to give compensation to a kin of a Catholic priest, who died dur-ing the 2008 anti-Christian violence. “I have received the High Court Order and asked some clarifications and documents,” the collector told Benadicta Di-gal, brother of Father Bernard Diga, when he […]

Bhopal archdiocese celebrates Bible festival

The Archdiocese of Bhopal has concluded a three-day Bible Mahotsav (grand festival) with the imposition of pallium upon Archbishop Alangaram Arokia Sebastian Durairaj. The festival, a spiritual retreat for the laity, began with a procession of the Bible at 8:30 am on October 21 at Assumption Church. Father Ishwardas Minj, the vicar general of the […]

Fisherpeople storm Vizhinjam port as protests enter 100th day

Thousands of fishermen and wo-men on October 28 stormed the under construction Vizhinjam International Port by the Adani groups, throwing police barricades to the Arabian sea as the protest entered 101 days. The more than 1,500 police force remained calm as the agitated fishing community pulled up the police barricades and threw them into the […]

Delhi archdiocese’s multicultural, pan-Indian parish turns 50

Few parishes in Delhi or in India are visualized to look after the spiritual needs of the faithful, be they Indians and foreigners, who would be coming from institutes such as Indian Institute of Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru University and All India Institute of Medical Sciences besides others from the nearby Embassies.

Goa archdiocese celebrates mass media day

The Archdiocese of Goa and Daman celebrated the Day of Mass Media apostolate by stressing the proper and safe use of social media. “The media is often used to pro-mote personal agenda or create public opinions that are advantageous to those in power or for the benefit of business houses,” said vicar general Father Jose […]

Christians back Anglo-Indian quota in parliament

Indian Christian leaders joined a protest by the microscopic Anglo-Indian community in the national capital New Delhi demanding the reinstatement of the minority’s representation in parliament and legislative assemblies. The protesters wanted the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revoke a 2020 constitutional amendment it carried out, which ended the special provision.

Eviction-facing Indian Catholics to fight Muslim charity’s claims

Goans oppose tourism project near 16th century basilica