Papal almoner opens shelter in Lviv 3 days after drone attack
The house was under construction when war broke out in February 2022, but the main work on it has been done amid the war
Gonsalo Garcia was born on Feb. 5, 1556, to a Portuguese father and Indian mother of Konkani descent, at Agashi village at Bassein (now Vasai), near Mumbai city in western India. His father was a soldier stationed at Fort Bassein, a Portuguese fort. Gonsalo received his education under the Jesuits. While assisting at the Church of the Holy of Jesus at Bassein, he developed a friendship with Jesuit Father Sebastian Gonsalves, who eventually became his lifelong mentor and guide.
Read moreThis Filipino layman martyr saint could be rightly called the patron of infant baptism because it was after the baptism of an infant through his instrumentality that on 2nd April 1672 Pedro was martyred along with his companion missionary Fr. Diego San Vitores who baptised the infant. This infant was of a mother who got converted to Catholicism.
Read moreLorenzo Ruiz, also called Saint Lorenzo of Manila, is a Filipino saint venerated in the Catholic Church. A Chinese-Filipino, he became his country's protomartyr after his execution in Japan by the Tokugawa Shogunate during its persecution of Japanese Christians in the 17th century.
Read moreThe house was under construction when war broke out in February 2022, but the main work on it has been done amid the war
A civil court ruled that the woman was sexually abused by a chaplain in a Christian-run hospital in Tokyo in 2017
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Latin patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa will be the first resident cardinal in Jerusalem, according to the patriarchate
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If enough people buy the secession argument in future, public sentiment may be too strong to ignore, says a political analyst
Closure of 29,000 public schools has affected the education of over 7 million students