Plea seeking Hindu women’s rights raises storm in Bangladesh
A section of minority Hindus call it an attempt ‘to break our families and get us out of this country’
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 moreA section of minority Hindus call it an attempt ‘to break our families and get us out of this country’
It is keen on establishing a new identity globally through regional security, strategy and policy changes
Three members of the Coalition of Cambodian Farmers Community were accused of plotting a 'peasant revolution'
The confiscation of farmlands will render people without any means of livelihood, villagers say
Authorities were seeking to remove the dome and minarets of a 13th-century Arabic-style mosque in Yunnan province
St Gregory of Nyssa stated that it is necessary to 'go from beginning to beginning, through beginnings that have no end'
Diplomatic relations were disrupted in 2016 after Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran was attacked
May 27, 2023, marks 100 years since the birth of Don Lorenzo Milani