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Share NEW DELHI (SAR NEWS) — Over 100 key Christian leaders from different communities of Meitei, Chin, Kuki, Mizo, Zomi and Naga tribes joined hands in prayer for peace in Manipur at the Apostles’ Methodist Church here, May 22. The Meitei Christian Churches in different parts of Manipur also held prayer meetings May 21. The economic blockade of [...]

Share BANGALORE, Karnataka (SAR NEWS) – Clive and Cathy are happily married with 5 children and eleven grandchildren. Cathy was a nurse in Ireland and Clive was a fire officer in London. It’s a time of their life when they should be sitting on a rocking chair thanking God for all the challenges and the blessing through [...]

Share MUMBAI, Maharashtra (SAR NEWS) — The All India Christian Council (AICC) has urged the government of India to also include “religious minorities” as a category, like “caste”, in the ongoing 2011 census format. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, May 17, AICC general secretary Abraham Mathai stressed the need for including the religious minorities [...]

Share VISAKHAPATNAM, Andhra Pradesh (SAR NEWS) — A rightwing Hindu organisation has opposed reservations for Christians and Muslims in government jobs. Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) or the World Hindu Council will launch a countrywide agitation against the decision of the governments of Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal states to provide 10 per cent and 5 per cent [...]

Share SIRSI, Karnataka (SAR NEWS) – Anti-social elements threw stones and damaged the glass panes of a grotto encasing statues of Sts. Joseph and Mary at the Holy Cross Church in Honnavar, Uttara Kannada district, May 10 night. The incident came to light May 11 morning, police investigating the case said. The residents of the area immediately informed [...]

Share MANGALORE, Karnataka (SAR NEWS) – Dr. Joseph Martis has been appointed the new Rector of St. Joseph’s Inter-Diocesan Seminary at Jeppu here. This was announced by Bishop Aloysius Paul D’Souza of Mangalore, May10, at the seminary. Father Joseph will take charge June 3. Martis was born in Pangala June 4, 1960. He had his primary education in [...]

Share By Ashok Singh, SAR NEWS RUTUNGIA, Orissa (SAR NEWS) – For the Christian youth of Kandhamal district that witnessed a major attack on the community by Hindu extremists over two years ago, this summer was a time to put the past behind them and look ahead to the future. The Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar organised short-term professional trainings [...]

Share BANGALORE, Karnataka (SAR NEWS) – Youth from the century-old Sacred Heart Church on Richmond road in Bangalore have scheduled a unique celebration May 16th to honour deceased priests in the Year of Priests, with a view to begin a movement to adopt deceased priests and pray for them. The celebration which will be attended by the [...]

Share JAMMU, Jammu & Kashmir (SAR NEWS) — Sister Reena, vice-principal of St. Francis School, Akhnoor, 26 km from here, has been booked by the police under Section 323 (criminal negligence) of the Ranbir Penal Code for allegedly beating up and torturing a class V student, Sunidhi Misra, daughter of Raman Misra, resident of Ward 5, [...]

Share KANPUR, Uttar Pradesh (SAR NEWS) — St. Patrick’s Church Cantonment launched its sesquicentennial jubilee celebrations with a spiritual renewal programme May 9. A marble stone at the entrance of the church proclaims that it was built in 1860, so 2010 is its sesquicentennial (150 years). However, the Catholic Directory of 1912 states that the church was built [...]