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The Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM), better known as the "Sisters of Loreto”, are currently celebrating 175 years of their presence in South Asia. "With immense gratitude to God we celebrate the arrival in India of the first sisters, who 175 years ago brought the love of God", Sister Anita M. Braganza, head of the religious Province of South Asia told Vatican’s Fides news agency. Twelve brave Irish women, that included 7 nuns and 5 postulants, set sail from Ireland, where the congregation was founded in 1609 by the Englishwoman Mary Ward, landed in Calcutta, British India, after 4 months on Dec. 30, 1841. Averaging 19 years of age, the Loreto nuns headed by 23-year old Mother Delphine Hart, never intended to return home. Based in Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, the congregation spread to many parts of India, Nepal, Bangladesh. "That experience was the result of a missionary zeal: a life dedicated ...
Lahore, Pakistan, Jan 6, 2017 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Supporters of Pakistan’s strict blasphemy law attempted to march in Lahore on Wednesday, but were thwarted when police made more than 150 arrests.The nation's blasphemy laws impose strict punishment on those who desecrate the Quran or who defame or insult Muhammad.The Jan. 4 demonstrations would have fallen on the sixth anniversary of the 2011 assassination of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, a prominent advocate of changing the strict blasphemy law. He was killed by his own security guard, Mumtaz Qadri, for his stance on the law.Some backers of the strict anti-blasphemy law consider Qadri a hero.Protesters from several religious parties had planned the march in the capital of Punjab province. The arrested were members of the Islamist coalition Tehreek-i-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah.Authorities said that more arrests would be made and no one had permission to hold a rally in Lahore, the Pakistani newspaper Dawn reports.Po...
By Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Catholic Church has a "tremendousresponsibility to bring people together in prayer and dialogue, to begin anewthe vital work of fostering healing and lasting peace," said a report by aU.S. bishops' task force released Jan. 5 in the wake of last year's incidentsof violence and racial tensions.Thework to "root out racism and create healthy dynamics in our neighborhoods"is a long-term project, but the scope of it should not cause fear orintimidation, wrote Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta, chairman of the TaskForce to Promote Peace in Our Communities, in the report's introduction.He alsosaid "the church is at her absolute best when she is a bold and propheticvoice for the power of the love upon which our faith is based, the love of Jesus Christ."Thetask force is taking on a broad issue, but in its report, it breaks down whatneeds to be done into a few recommendations to the U.S. bishops, urging them tofocus on:-- Prayer:Masses, rosarie...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICANCITY (CNS) -- The Magi had the courage to set out on a journey in the hope of finding somethingnew, unlike Herod who was full of himself and unwilling to change his ways,Pope Francis said.The Wise Men who set out fromthe East in search of Jesus personify all those who long for God and reflect"allthose who in their lives have let their hearts be anesthetized," the pope said Jan. 6, the feast of theEpiphany."TheMagi experienced longing; they were tired of the usual fare. They were all toofamiliar with, and weary of, the Herods of their own day. But there, inBethlehem, was a promise of newness, of gratuity," he said.Thousandsof people were gathered in St.Peter's Basilica as the pope entered to the sounds of the choir singing"Angels we have heard on high" in Latin. Before taking his place infront of the altar, the pope stood in front of a statue of baby Jesus, spending several minutes inveneration before kissing it.Thepope said that t...
