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Priest and 1500 parishioners on attempted murder charge

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

A Goa parish priest and more than 1,500 parishioners have been charged with attempted murder after six policemen were attacked and injured on Saturday night.

Enraged parishioners attacked the policemen after they turned up at around 9pm at St Francis Xavier Church in Velim to talk to Father Romano Gonsalves.

The crowd thought the policemen had come to try and intimidate the parish priest who was raided recently by income-tax and police officials.

Fr Gonsalves tried to shield the policemen in his bedroom but the parishioners dragged them out and beat them up.

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Confession goes green in India

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Catholics should include sins against the environment when they visit the confessional said the  Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council on Friday. Father Stephen Alathara, spokesman for the KCBC, said the council had finalized its ecological mission statement, which included the directive about confession, during its annual meeting in Kochi. “Any exploitation of nature amounts to sins against Read more

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Palmerston North missionary family heading for the slums of India

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Next Sunday, Dave and Michelle Mollard from Palmerston North and their children will travel to Delhi in India to undertake missionary and aid work for 14 months. They will work with children and orphans in the slums of India.   Their work will include teaching English to street kids. Read about them in the Manawatu Standard Read more

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Fire kills eunuchs at meeting

Friday, November 25th, 2011

The Church expressed shock and sympathy today after a fire ripped through a community park in Delhi yesterday killing 13 eunuchs and leaving 35 others injured.

The blaze broke out yesterday evening in a pandal (tented enclosure) in the park in East Delhi’s Nand Nagri district where over 1,000 eunuchs from across the country had assembled for a three-day gathering.

“We are deeply grieved to hear about the incident and extend our sympathies to the families of those killed and injured,” said Father Dominic Emmanuel, spokesman of Delhi archdiocese.

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Thousands attend murdered nun’s funeral

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Thousands bid a tearful farewell to Sister Valsa John, the murdered nun who was laid to rest at St Paul’s Cathedral in Jharkhand’s Pakur district yesterday while details emerged as to how she actually died.

On Tuesday night, the nun was sleeping in the house of a villager called Sonaram Hembrom when around 30-40 people armed with crude weapons laid siege to the house.

“The poor have lost a benefactor. The religious sister was serving the poor, especially tribals, and fighting for justice,” said Cardinal Telesphore Toppo of Ranchi.

 

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Catholic Church in India says have more children

Friday, October 14th, 2011

Worried about its dwindling numbers, the Roman Catholic church in southern India is exhorting its flock to have more children, with some parishes offering free schooling, medical care and even cash bonuses for large families, church officials have said. The strategy comes as India’s population tops 1.2 billion, making it the second most populous country Read more

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Overseas priests allowed residency in New Zealand

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

Religious workers will be able to become New Zealand residents under a recently announced policy change. Immigration Minister Jonathan Coleman said until now there was no residence option for religious workers and some communities had struggled to fill positions. “This new policy provides a path to residency for religious workers as well as an updated temporary work Read more

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Selective sex selection of foetuses widens India’s gender gap

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Aborting female foetuses in India means there are 7.1 million fewer girls than boys aged up to six. The gender-gap has widened by a million in the last 10 years. Selective sex selection Indian families where the first child has been a girl, more and more parents with access to prenatal ultrasound testing are sex-selecting Read more

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