Nirmala Carvalho

3 days ago | asianews.it | Nirmala Carvalho

Bhopal (AsiaNews) - A new particularly brutal case of rape against a tribal woman in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has brought to the forefront the shame of gender-based violence that most easily targets the most disadvantaged social groups. A 45-year-old mother of two was the victim of an alleged gang rape a few days ago in the village of Eitwa in the district of Khandwa.

4 days ago | cruxnow.com | Charles Collins |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Nirmala Carvalho

Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to not delay in pursuing their faith during his Wednesday General Audience. He was speaking about the parable on the laborers in the vineyard Jesus gives in the Gospel of Matthew, when the landowner hires people at different hours of the day but gives them all the same wages.

4 days ago | cruxnow.com | Ngala Killian Chimtom |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Nirmala Carvalho

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Flash floods that swept through some communities in Nigeria’s Benue State have killed over 200 people with 500 more still missing. Authorities say there is no hope any of the missing might still be found alive. Father James Omeh, the he parish priest of Saint Anthony’s Catholic Church in Gulu in Niger State in Nigeria, died on May 25 when his vehicle was swept away by floodwaters along the Lapai-Gulu Road near Duma village. A woman travelling with him was also killed. “Rev.

4 days ago | cruxnow.com | Elise Ann Allen |John Allen Jr |Nirmala Carvalho |Ngala Killian Chimtom

ROME – Early on in Pope Francis’s papacy, it became clear that “discernment” would be one of his buzzwords, and the Ignatian concept went on to become a bedrock of his Magisterium and pastoral decision-making process. Discernment is a loaded term for the Jesuits, carrying with it a specific interpretation and certain rules for how to exercise it according to Ignatian spirituality, as laid out by St. Ignatius in his famed Spiritual Exercises.

4 days ago | asianews.it | Nirmala Carvalho

Vilakkannur (AsiaNews) - With a solemn celebration presided over in Vilakkannur, in the Indian state of Kerala, by Apostolic Nuncio Monsignor Leopoldo Girelli, on 31 May the Catholic Church officially recognised as a Eucharistic miracle a prodigious event that took place 12 years ago in the local church of Christ the King.