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Cardinal Bo laments ‘wounded world’ and a Holy Week scarred by ‘devastating toll of conflict’
March 25, 2024
Cardinal Charles Bo has said that this year Christians mark Holy Week reflecting on the “devastating toll of conflict even in the birthplace of Jesus, Ukraine, and our own soil”. The Myanmar cardinal, and president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Myanmar and of the Federations of Asia Bishops Conferences, said in a statement: “As
Hindu nationalists threaten Catholic school over Ash Wednesday observance
February 13, 2024
MUMBAI – A Catholic school in western India has requested police protection after members of a Hindu nationalist group known for staging aggressive “reconversion” ceremonies announced the intention to “by hook or crook” conduct a Hindu ritual known as Saraswati Puja at the school on Ash Wednesday. Saraswati Puja is a ritual performed in honour
Indonesia’s Ash Wednesday services have to shift for tense elections in world’s third largest democracy 
January 20, 2024
MUMBAI – As the world’s largest Muslim nation heads to the polls on 14 February, which also happens to be Ash Wednesday this year, the country’s bishops are making special provisions to ensure the country’s minority Catholic population can participate in what is shaping up to be a tense election. The bishops are also calling
Pope demands loyalty from Syro-Malabar Church after resignation of controversial cardinal
December 08, 2023
MUMBAI – A leading dissident in India’s Syro-Malabar Church has expressed satisfaction for the resignations of two senior officials, including the controversial cardinal who headed the Church, but also perplexity regarding an unusual video appeal by Pope Francis for obedience. “We cannot make an immediate response to the video message of the Pope, but we’re
Mother Teresa’s nuns struggle to care for sick in small convent near embattled Gaza hospital
November 22, 2023
MUMBAI – Near Gaza’s embattled Al-Shifa hospital, three nuns of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity are currently struggling to support roughly 60 trapped people, including the elderly and disabled, with only intermittent contact with the outside world, according to an India-based priest who recently spoke with one of the sisters. Fighting around the hospital has
“Ethnic cleansing”: Catholic leaders condemn anti-Christian violence in India as Modi denies problem
July 22, 2023
“No religious discrimination in India”: President Biden welcomes Prime Minister Narenda Modi to the White House last month. Getty Images. MUMBAI – Amid what one Catholic leader has described as a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” directed at Christians in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, a video showing two Christian women who belong to the Kuki
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