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Changing the culture of people is the most difficult task and a challenge for a society that society alone can solve. Let us not depend only on Modi ji and Yogi ji- they have done an incredible job. Now it is your turn and payback time.
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.
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.
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
Church in Kerala plans to enforce changes made in Canon Law
Pope Francis broadened the Catholic Church’s definition of sexual abuse, revising the Vatican’s Code of Canon Law to explicitly acknowledge that adults, and not only children, can be victimized by priests.
The National Investigating Agency (NIA) court refused bail to the influential Jesuit priest and activist Stan Swamy as there was prima facie evidence about his being actively associated with the proscribed Maoist organization. Swamy, an 83-year-old priest was charged in the Elgar Parishad case.
USA has appointed a special coordinator for Tibet to send a strong message to China.
The Government of India has categorically rejected the claims made by the controversial United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) in its report that the Indian government allowed violence against minorities in the country.
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.
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.
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
The sins of priests and Bishops are coming out one after the other. These priests and Bishops are committing serious crimes including sexual assault, blackmailing etc rather serving the message of ‘God’ to the people. The shocking exposition this time comes from Pennsylvania, United States where at least 300 priests are accused of child sex abuse by more than 1,000 victims throughout the country.
The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Wednesday demanded to setup an enquiry commission against the wrong-doings of church and make anti-conversion law. Notably, the VHP alleged church and so-called services offered by the church have become places of religious conversions, other unlawful and unethical activities and therefore it further demanded an inquiry commission to investigate their pastors and the organizations they run. It further demanded that the Central government enact an anti-conversion law.
Demanding a stringent action against the religious appeal of Delhi Archbishop with reference to 2019 elections, senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has asked the central government to snap all diplomatic relations with the Vatican. The Rajya Sabha member took to Twitter and opined that ministry of external affairs must seal the Embassy of the Holy see Vatican in the national capital.