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By Sandra Valentina – Some churches are built with stone. Some are built with history. But some are built with the prayers of generations. In the
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Every September 8, the Church marks a feast that rarely makes headlines: the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In many parishes across Asia, it
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By Purushottam Nayak – MAYURBHANJ, Odisha, India — Sept. 7, 2026: Nearly three decades after he was killed while serving tribal communities in one of
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Verghese V Joseph – Kolkata, September 5, 2026 — On the liturgical feast day of St Teresa of Calcutta, the Archdiocese of Calcutta hosted the
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Br Malvino Alfonso OCD – India celebrates Teachers’ Day on 5 September, the birth anniversary of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, former President of India, philosopher and
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# chhotebhai – August has been a rather depressing and distressing month for me, despite my telling others that we should never give up hope.
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The 2026 message of Pope Leo XIV for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation arrives at a revealing moment. Its central
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Fr. Sebastian James, SJ Why Church-run institutions must recover a practice rooted in Scripture and their own traditions At a closed-door meeting of major superiors,
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In 1567, St Stanislaus Kostka left Vienna and crossed Germany on his way to Rome, hoping to enter the Society of Jesus against his father’s wishes. This year, young Polish pilgrims retraced the same 1,713-kilometer route to pray for vocations. At the tomb of St Stanislaus in the Church of Sant’Andrea al Quirinale in Rome, they gave thanks for the pilgrimage with a Mass presided over by Cardinal Gianfranco Ghirlanda.
The Apostolic Vicar of Northern Arabia and the Greek Catholic Metropolitan of Kuwait and Baghdad jointly led a pilgrimage to Mount Athos, which took place from September 6 to 9. The delegation received the blessing of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and was able to visit twelve of the twenty monasteries.
The funerals of the 27 victims of the fire that devastated a school on 10 September in the Cimpunda district of Bukavu, capital of South Kivu Province in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have taken place.
A medieval treasure linking faith, history and craftsmanship is being brought back to life through a new facsimile edition. The first of five volumes of the Bible of Aquileia is presented to the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and of Social Sciences in the Vatican.