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Catholics boycotted for ignoring Hindu practice

The refusal of Catholics to follow Hindu practices in a village in Karnataka state has resulted in sanctions against them, says a bishop.
Following a cholera outbreak recently, Hindus in Magalawada village decided to appease a deity by not working on Tuesdays and Fridays, said Bishop Derek Fernandes of Karwar.
Local media reported that Christians refused to follow this [...]

Catholics back hunger striker’s land claim

Some 1,500 Catholics demonstrated yesterday to support a fellow Catholic’s hunger strike protesting state acquisition of his land.
Gregory Patrao started his strike on June 17 to demand that the Karnataka government return his property.
Patrao’s house was demolished on April 28 after his plea challenging the land acquisition by the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) [...]

Calls for unity fill Lankan Lent

Thousands of Tamil Catholics took part in a Way of the Cross in Colombo on Sunday amid calls by Church leaders to heal the wounds of division in the country.
“We have to create unity with others and build up peace in our country,” said Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo in his homily during the Mass, [...]

Site helps find Mass schedules

Masstimes.org is a website developed in 1994 to help traveling Catholics in the USA find a nearby church with a schedule of religious services. In 2002 it expanded its service to the international churches.
Masstimes is operated by Mass Times Trust, in partnership with United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and has the encouragement of the [...]

Card. Zen slated for interpreting pope

Chinese Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun has been accused of setting himself up as an “interpreter” and “guarantor” of the Pope’s influential 2007 letter to Catholics on the mainland China.
Italian Catholic magazine 30 Giorni (30 Days) is critical of the cardinal’s role which it says “looks out of the ordinary and self-inspired.”
At the same time, it [...]

Hanoi violence worries Vatican

The violence taking place against Catholics in Hanoi’s Dong Chiem parish has caused “serious concern” in Vatican circles, an official Church news agency said.
It said after Vietnam President Nguyen Minh Triet met with Pope Benedict XVI on last Dec. 11, “everyone expected” the government show “more understanding” toward Christians.
But the situation in the parish of [...]

Disputed church opened after 32 years

The Kerala government opened a disputed church after 32 years following a court order, allowing two rival groups of Christians to conduct worship separately.
The Thrikkunnath St Mary’s Seminary Church in Aluva had remained closed for the past three decades due to ownership dispute between the Orthodox and Jacobite factions of the Malankara Church.
The Kerala High [...]

Lay support sought for seminarians

The archbishop of Calcutta has called on lay Catholics to get more involved with seminaries as part of his model for a new more “people-centered” Church.
International support for seminaries in the country had fallen and local Churches must accept “greater responsibility” to form and maintain priests, Archbishop Lucas Sirkar said in a letter to Catholics
But [...]

Pope walks tight rope to synagogue

A cartoon in the January edition of an Italian Jewish newspaper showed Pope Benedict XVI crossing the Tiber River on a tightrope, trying to balance himself using a pole labeled “dialogue” on one end and “conversion” on the other.
As he prepared to cross the river and travel from the Vatican to Rome’s main synagogue Jan. [...]

Live-in helps Catholics, Muslims

Young Catholics say they have learnt more about Islam after a two-day stay at a pesantren, or Islamic boarding school, in western Java.
“The young Muslims warmly welcomed us and we were involved in dialogues on our religions. The experience taught me that religions create no boundaries to relations with one other,” Lucia Wenehen told UCA [...]

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