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Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council condoles demise of Stan Swamy
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], July 6 (ANI): The Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council (KCBC) expressed its condolences on the death of the Jesuit priest Fr Stan Swamy and said that he was "denied even natural justice".
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2 injured in church blast in DR Congo
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kinshasa [DR Congo], June 27 (ANI/Xinhua): At least two people were injured on Sunday morning in an explosion at a Catholic church in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to multiple local media.
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Two more Catholic churches burned down in Canada's British Columbia
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
British Columbia [Canada], June 27 (ANI): Days after two Catholic churches were destroyed by fire in the British Columbia province of Canada, two more Catholic churches were burned down in the province's Interior on Saturday morning.
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Allotting 80 pc minority scholarships to Muslim community cannot be legall
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], May 28 (ANI): The Kerala High Court on Friday held that action of the state government in sub classifying the minorities by providing merit-cum-means scholarship at 80 per cent to the Muslim community and 20 per cent to the Latin Catholic Christians and converted C
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COVID-19: With burial sites filling up, cremation of Catholics recommended
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], April 16 (ANI): With an increasing number of COVID casualties and the subsequent shortage of burial sites, the Catholic Diocese of Ahmedabad have been prompted to tell its adherents to consider the cremation of coronavirus victims.
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Attackers killed in Indonesia church blast linked to terror group
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], March 29 (ANI): Indonesian police have said the suicide bombers who died in a blast outside a Roman Catholic church on Sulawesi Island on Sunday were a man and woman who were members of a Muslim terrorist network linked to the Islamic State group.
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Philippines imposes lockdown over Easter due to surge in COVID-19 cases
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], March 29 (ANI): More than 25 million people in the Philippines, a Catholic majority country, will not be celebrating Easter as normal this year as a strict lockdown has been imposed in the capital and nearby provinces.
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Explosion outside Catholic church in Indonesia's Makassar
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], March 28 (ANI): An explosion occurred outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday, The Jakarta Post reported citing police.
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Kerala Catholic Bishop's Council condemns harassment of nuns in UP
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], March 26 (ANI): The Kerala Catholic Bishop's Council on Friday condemned the alleged harassment of nuns in Uttar Pradesh and urged the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh government to punish the offenders.
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Amid rubble in Mosul left by ISIS, Pope Francis declares hope as 'more pow
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Mosul [Iraq], March 8 (ANI): Standing amid the rubble left by the now defeated ISIS terrorists in Iraq, Pope Francis on Sunday said that hope is "more powerful than hatred and peace more powerful than war."
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Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council urges EC not to conduct Assembly polls be
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], February 17 (ANI): The Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council (KCBC) has written a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora urging him to not conduct the Assembly polls in Kerala from April 1 to April 6, citing important holy days of Christians.
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CSB Bank reports PAT of Rs 53 cr in Q3
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Thrissur (Kerala) [India], January 19 (ANI): Private sector lender CSB Bank (earlier known as Catholic Syrian Bank) on Tuesday reported a profit after tax of Rs 53 crore in the third quarter (October to December 2020) as compared to Rs 28 crore in the corresponding period of the previous fis
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