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Pope Francis, on Sunday (Feb 5), said that he is planning to visit India next year and is also expected to take a trip to Mongolia later in 2023, as per Vatican News. Pope Francis outlined his upcoming travel schedule.
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On behalf of the people of Odisha, the chief minister presented a 'Patachitra' painting to the Pope, the head of the Catholic Church, and sought his blessings, an official statement issued by his office in Bhubaneswar said.
Decks were cleared for former Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal's return to the pastoral duties after the Vatican accepted the Kottayam trial court's decision, acquitting him of rape charges by a nun in January 2022.
PM Modi to meet Pope Francis in the Vatican during Rome visit
According to a report published in the Dalit Christian Digest the Tamil Nadu Dalit Christian Coalition proposes creation of “Indian Dalit Rite”
By Dr. Balram Misra Of late, there has been a noise in Western media, in fact the Vatican media, that the Hindu Renaissance in India is harming secularism. It is ridiculous to hear any talk of any relation between the Vaticanized part of the West and S
Pope Francis expresses sorrow but 'No Apology' for Indigenous school deaths in Canada. The remains of 215 children had been found on the grounds of the former boarding school.
Pope Gulshan Singh Bishop converting people to Christianity in Punjab- The real population of Christians in Punjab; Why do people in Punjab convert to Christianity?
Church in Kerala plans to enforce changes made in Canon Law
Canada calls on Pope to apologize after Indigenous children’s remains found. A mass grave of 215 Children found at a residential school run by the Roman #Catholic Administration. The school was shut in 1978. Children were as young as 3 years old.
USA has appointed a special coordinator for Tibet to send a strong message to China.
Pope must tender an unconditional apology for the atrocities committed by Christian Missionaries in Goa, demands French journalist Francois Gautier.
India once again shined in Cannes Film festival. A three-minute film named ‘Seed Mother’ by Achyatanand Dwivedi has won the third prize in the International section of Nepresso Talents 2019 in Cannes yesterday night. The film depicts the story of a Maharashtra Woman Rahibai Popere who has preserved hundreds of indigenous seed varieties in Ahmednagar district.
The 2014 UN report denounced the Vatican for allowing priests to rape children and demanded that the Vatican “immediately remove” all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers.
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of an Indian Bishop guilty of violating the celibacy vow and getting married and having a child also. Prasad Gallela, the Bishop of Cuddapah in Andhra Pradesh has fallen out of the grace of the Roman Catholic Pontiff for violating the celibacy vow.
The Christians all over India observed November 11 as “Dalit Liberation Sunday” (DLS) with an avowed aim of bringing the Dalit Christians at par with the ‘Dalit Hindus’ in matters of economic and social equality.
Expressing shock and grief the Hindu Americans denounced the cowardly attack on Jewish Synagogue in Pittsburgh that killed 11 innocent people and injured many.
It gives the Holy See a decisive role in the appointment of all bishops in a country whose around 12 million Catholics have been split between an underground Church swearing loyalty to the Vatican and the state-supervised Catholic Patriotic Association.
The blitzkrieg that has hit the Catholic Church in India over the last couple of months could verily use another set of three Fs – the ‘Frightening Franco Fiasco’. It is frightening because of the incalculable harm, and in some cases, irreparable loss, to the otherwise “goody” image of the Catholic Church in India. It was a fiasco because of the fumbling, bumbling silence of the CBCI and the Papal Nuncio in India.
A 44-year-old nun from Kerala who had exposed Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar of raping her multiple times has now written to the Vatican city seeking justice. In a seven-page letter written to The Apostolic Nuncio of India, Giambattista Diquattro – an Ambassador to the Pope detailing her pain and listing the names of all the people she has approached for help including the Pope himself. He further said that none of them including Nuncio have bothered to help her, or take action against the rape-accused
s many as 168 leading Catholic figures and lay people have darted letters to the Vatican urging the Pope to sack the Indian Bishop accused of raping a nun even as Bishop Franco Mulakkal who is accused of raping a nun in Kerala, pleaded that he was being fabricated by the nun.
A Kerala Bishop has been accused of sexually exploiting a nun for years. In another case some priests were alleged to have 'blackmailed and sexually abused' a married woman in Kerala for years. And the Catholic Church is just sitting idle. There is no reaction from the progressive intellectuals and media. This silence is criminal.
The Poor Christian Liberation Movement (PCLM) on the occasion of Good Friday demanded form the Pope Francis to bring reforms in the Catholic Church in India.
