News tagged with "catholic"

Mother of God Community

The Mother of God Community manages a website which gives information about its mission to glorify Jesus Christ by living the gospel and growing in the knowledge of God through prayer, fellowship, evangelization and service.
www.motherofgod.org is a website which also gives detail about its members which includes Christians from all walks of life– families, singles, [...]

Students banned from nude run

A Catholic university chaplain in the Philippines has barred students from re-staging their naked “freedom run” around the campus to commemorate their fraternity’s anniversary.
Institute of Incarnate Word (IVE) Father Salvador Curutchet banned students of De La Salle Araneta University (DLSU-Araneta) in Malabon City from holding their “Oblation Run”.
The Argentinean priest, who has been chaplain for [...]

Fingerprints trouble Catholic school

A Catholic school has run into trouble for collecting students’ finger prints, an illegal act in India.
Officials of St. Anne’s Senior Secondary School in Madhya Pradesh state’s Sehore district have apologized and explained they undertook the exercise to prevent mischief makers from damaging school property.
However, the school was forced to declare a holiday on Feb. [...]

The BBC and anti-Catholic bias

The British Broadcasting Corporation has a reputation for quality programming, but it has often been accused of treating the Church unfairly at best and maliciously at worst, writes Edward Pentin.
The BBC is not known to be one of the Catholic Church’s closest friends.
Although it has a worldwide reputation for high quality programming, the vast state-funded [...]

Pope to discuss abuse report with bishops

Pope Benedict XVI plans to meet Ireland’s Catholic bishops to discuss the consequences of the church’s cover-ups of clerical sexual abuse.
Senior church sources on Jan. 19 confirmed a story in the Irish Catholic newspaper of plans for the talks scheduled for 15 and 16 February, BBC said.
The bishops have already got their invitations to the [...]

Catholic youth accused of attacking dalit

A group of Catholic youths in a Tamil Nadu village allegedly beat up a 24-year dalit man and forced him to eat human excreta. But police suspect the allegation is “farfetched.”
P. Sadaiyandi of Meikovilpatti village, Dindugal, said in his police complaint that he was attacked on Jan. 7 for defying the ban on Dalits wearing [...]

“Allah” row: Catholics’ lawyers targeted

Church people in Malaysia say offices of Church’s lawyers have been ransacked in what they call the latest attack connected with a row over the non-Muslims using the word “Allah.”
“Our lawyer’s offices were broken into and burgled sometime between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning and the office was ransacked,” said Father Lawrence Andrew, editor of [...]

Catholic exodus from communism predicted

Resignation of a Catholic from the Communist Party of India (Marxist, CPI-M) would trigger an exodus of Christians from the party, says a Church spokesperson in Kerala.
Father Paul Thelakat, spokesperson of Kerala’s prominent Syro-Malabar Church, made the prediction while commenting on the resignation of Kurisinkal Sebastian Manoj from the CPI-M.
Manoj, a former member of parliament, [...]

Laotians return for church’s anniversary

Overseas Catholic Laotians, some of whom were driven from their homeland several decades ago, recently returned to celebrate the 115th anniversary of a historic church.
More than 400 parishioners of the Church of Infant Jesus in Phanon, Pakse vicariate, and visitors from other parts of Laos and overseas attended the recent celebration in the south of [...]

Catholics, Orthodox Churches make historic moves

Catholic and Orthodox Churches have agreed to share priestly services and infrastructure, in a major development in their 356-year-old troubled history.

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