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(Vatican Radio)  India is marking its 70th Independence Day on Aug. 15, in commemoration of the day in 1947 when what was the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two newly independent states – Hindu-dominated India and Muslim-dominated Pakistan.  Pakistan celebrates its Independence a day earlier on August 14.Partition-triggered tragedyThe boundary lines between the two new nations, hastily drawn up just weeks before, were not made public until two days later. Muslims and Hindus on the wrong sides of the divide, suddenly felt themselves in enemy land, especially in divided Punjab and Bengal.  This triggered a panicked and chaotic mass migration - one of the largest history has witnessed outside war and famine – that resulted in a massive loss of life on both sides.No-one knows the exact number but it is estimated between 500,000 to 1 million were killed.  Tens of thousands of women were raped or abducted and about 12 million people became ref...
The Catholic Church of India has joined the nation in mourning the death of at least 70 people, among them many children, who died in a hospital in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state.  "The Church in India mourns for the loss of innocent lives, that of our children in the tragedy of the Gorakhpur Hospital," said Indian Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI).  Speaking to AsiaNews, he expressed the condolences of the entire Indian Catholic community to the families affected by what he said was an "immense loss that afflicts the whole nation."Dozens of children and infants suffering from encephalitis died in Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur, one of the largest hospitals in Uttar Pradesh, because of the lack of oxygen supplies.  According to some local newspapers, the death toll has risen to 79.Card. Cleemis who is head of the India-based Syro-Malankara Catholic Church r...
Vatican City, Aug 14, 2017 / 07:20 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The bishops of Australia have indicated that they will resist the Royal Commission's proposal that priests be legally obligated to disclose details of sexual abuse revealed in the confessional, facing criminal charges if they don't.“Confession in the Catholic Church is a spiritual encounter with God through the priest,” Archbishop Denis J Hart of Melbourne said in an Aug. 14 statement.President of the Australian Bishops Conference, Hart said confession “is a fundamental part of the freedom of religion, and it is recognized in the Law of Australia and many other countries.”“It must remain so here in Australia,” he said, but stressed that “outside of this, all offenses against children must be reported to the authorities, and we are absolutely committed to doing so.”The statement came the same day Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual ...
IMAGE: CNSBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The archbishop officially promotingBlessed Oscar Romero's cause for sainthood said he hopes the process willconclude within a year and Catholics around the world will honor St. OscarRomero, martyr."Keeping alive the memory of Romero is a noble task,and my great hope is that Pope Francis will soon canonize him a saint," ItalianArchbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the postulator of the Salvadoran archbishop'scause, said in a homily Aug. 12 in London.In an interview with Vatican Radio's English program,Archbishop Paglia was more specific: "We could hope that in the next yearperhaps it is possible" that the Congregation for Saints' Causes will havecompleted its review of an alleged miracle attributed to Blessed Romero'sintervention and present its findings to the pope. Recognition of the miraclewould clear the way for canonization.Archbishop Paglia, in addition to promoting Blessed Romero'ssainthood cause, is president of the Pontifical Academy for...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- The son and grandson of golf professionals, Justin Thomas couldn't think of a better major to win than the PGA Championship....
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The Latest on the U.S. case against a British cybersecurity researcher accused of creating a malware program (all times local):...
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Relatives dug through the mud in search of their loved ones and a morgue overflowed with bodies Monday after heavy rains and flooding early in the day killed at least 200 people in Sierra Leone's capital....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The CEO of the nation's third largest pharmaceutical company resigned from a manufacturing council that advises President Donald Trump days after racially tinged clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, citing "a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on President Donald Trump and the weekend's violence and death in Charlottesville, Virginia (all times local):...
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