EU team’s Orissa visit back on track

A European Union delegation’s trip to Orissa will now go ahead after an apparent climb-down by the government.
The 12-member EU team scrapped early plans after the government barred it from visiting Kandhamal district, the epicenter of anti-Christian violence in 2008.
The group will visit the state next week, officials said.
There is a question mark, however, on [...]

Priest protests truck danger, arrested

A Catholic priest in Goa was arrested after leading a protest of some 300 people against accidents and environmental pollution caused by mining trucks.
Father Felix Lobo was detained after blocking the road in Usgao village Jan. 28 but was later granted bail.
The priest of Saint Joseph Church led the protest to highlight a head-on collision [...]

Church univ. welcomes court reprieve

Bangalore’s Christ University is relieved after the Supreme Court suspended a government move to downgrade its status along with 43 other institutions.
“We are greatly relieved … but a lot of damage has been done in the last few days,” said a Catholic priest and faculty member who did not wish to be named.
The universities challenged [...]

Indian migrants get parish in Kuwait

The diocese of Kuwait opened its newest and fourth parish Jan. 29 at Jleeb Al-Shuyouk area of the city, mainly to cater to the needs of migrant Catholics from Mangalore and Kerala.
Bishop Camillo Ballin, vicar apostolic of Kuwait canonically established the parish during a concelebrated Mass. The parish has been dedicated to Saint Daniel Comboni, [...]

Atheists oppose Mother Teresa stamp

An atheist group is opposing the U.S. postal department ’s plan to honor Mother Teresa with a stamp, saying it violates postal regulations against honoring “individuals whose principal achievements are associated with religious undertakings.
“The Freedom from Religion Foundation is urging its supporters to boycott the stamp and also to engage in a letter-writing campaign to [...]

New Serbian patriarch wants dialogue

The new head of the Serbian Orthodox Church on Jan. 28 urged dialogue to overcome long-standing divisions with Catholic Church.
Patriarch Irinej, 80, said a 2013 anniversary important to Christians would be a “good opportunity … to meet and talk,” Washington Post reported.
He added that “with God’s help this (dialogue) would continue to overcome what had [...]

Birth control U-turn raises questions

Presidential hopeful Gilbert Teodoro, Jr’s U-turn on the Reproductive Health bill in the Philippines has thrown his motives into question and put the Church’s role in the election campaign debate under the spotlight.
“It is a good development if he has had a genuine change of heart,” said Bishop Deogracias Iniguez of Kalookan, the chairman of [...]

Lankan Christians’ unity stressed

Sri Lankan Christians came away empty-handed from a government round of land grants last year because they were divided, an ecumenical meeting was told this week.
The failure to unite as one Christian voice had backfired and the land grant scheme was a wake-up call to Christian leaders, Dominican Father Jayalath Balagalla said.
Buddhist, Muslim, and Hindu [...]

Nuns save ethnic infants from grave

Little Maria Ho Thi Thien An, now four, was saved by her father from being buried alive with her dead mother when she was just seven days old.
Thien An (God’s grace) now lives happily at a center for orphans and poor children run by the Daughters of Our Lady Immaculate nuns in Hue.
Sister Magdalene Nguyen [...]

Gurjarvani communication center

Gurjarvani (voice of Gujarat) video and audio production center in Ahmedabad is a communication center managed by Jesuits. With audio visual programs on various educational and social themes, it serves the Gujarati speaking people across the world.

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