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Pope Francis allows women to serve at Mass, but no to female priests
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], January 12 (ANI): Pope Francis has changed the laws of the Roman Catholic Church to formally allow women to serve at the altar, give readings from the Bible during Mass and administer communion, yet they remain barred from ordained priesthood.
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Kerala Catholic Reforms Movement members burn Catholic council calendar fe
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], December 14 (ANI): Kerala Catholic Reforms Movement (KCRM) members burnt the Catholic council calendar at different locations in Kerala on Sunday.
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Cardinal of Catholic church seeks PM's attention in matters related to min
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], November 16 (ANI): Mizoram Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai on Monday said that the cardinal and others holding higher positions of Catholic churches have handed over a memorandum to him to further give it to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to bring several issues to his
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No change in Catholic Church's teachings on family life, homosexuality: Ke
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], October 22 (ANI): Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council (KCBC) on Thursday issued a statement regarding the news that Pope Francis declared support for civil union laws for same-sex couples.
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Kerala catholic priest, sentenced to 20-yr of imprisonment for raping mino
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], July 15 (ANI): Former catholic priest Robin Vadakkumchery on Wednesday approached the Kerala High Court seeking permission to marry the girl, whom he had raped when she was minor.
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Kerala's Syro Malabar Church requests CM to open worship places
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], May 16 (ANI): Syro Malabar Catholic Church Major Archbishop George Alencherry has written to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan requesting that places of worship should be allowed to open subject to social distancing and other conditions laid down by
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Easter Sunday events in Spain cancelled, communities make masks amid virus
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Madrid [Spain], April 11 (ANI): Communities in Spain have cancelled thousands of religious processions, which were likely to be held to commemorate Easter Sunday on April 12, for the first time in nearly 90 years, in view of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Coronavirus: Do not kiss Holy Cross, says Archbishop Goa
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], Mar 15 (ANI): In order to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the Roman Catholic Church in Goa on Saturday issued an advisory, directing people not to kiss the Holy Cross and urged priests to purify their hands with sanitisers.
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Kochi's Little Flower Church makes safety masks to fight COVID-19
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], Mar 13 (ANI): In view of the coronavirus outbreak across the country, Little Flower Church here has started manufacturing safety masks in collaboration with the Kerala Latin Catholic Association (KLCA).
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Priest in Kerala suspended by Vatican for raping minor in 2016
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], Mar 1 (ANI): Catholic priest, Robin Vadakkumchery, who had served Syro Malabar Church in Kerala has been expelled from priesthood by the Vatican, media cell of Archdiocese of Mananthavady in Wayanad district said on Sunday.
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Catholic Association of Goa appeals people to attend meeting against CAA,
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Panaji(Goa) [India], Feb 20 (ANI): The Catholic Association of Goa on Thursday urged people to attend meeting against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC), and National Population Register (NPR) scheduled to be held on February 21 in Panaji.
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CAA against secular fabric of country: Archbishop of Goa Filipe Neri Ferra
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], Feb 9 (ANI): Archbishop of Goa Filipe Neri Ferrao, on behalf of the Catholic community in the state, released a strongly-worded statement on Saturday appealing to the Centre to "immediately and unconditionally revoke the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and desist from i
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