http://www.religiousindia.org Conference of Religious India Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:53:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A hospice that the Sisters of Queen of Apostles started almost five years ago in Mangalore is changing the perception of death-bed service, say nuns attached to it. “It is no more a place where dying people come. It has become a place where people get inner healing and peace, and http://www.religiousindia.org/2010/07/28/sra-hospice-changes-lives/ The once-in-three-year meeting of some 400 Major Superiors of women congregations working across India will take place early next year to discuss challenges their members face. The meeting, scheduled for Jan 8- 12, 2011, will gather heads of national and international congregations working in India. They are expected to discuss the http://www.religiousindia.org/2010/07/28/cri-announces-triennial-plenary-of-women-superiors/ Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has sought to reassure the local Catholic bishop over the future of a Dutch missioner facing expulsion from India. A state Foreigners Registration Office directive on June 26 ordered Mill Hill missioner Father Jim Borst to leave India by the end of July. Abdullah told http://www.religiousindia.org/2010/07/28/kashmir-chief-takes-up-dutch-missioner%e2%80%99s-case/ Women Religious in India have slammed a recent Vatican document equating women’s ordination with sexual abuse of children, calling it “derogatory” and “shocking.” “I am shocked at this statement. It is painful, absurd and a violation of the dignity of women,” said Sister Mary Scaria of Delhi archdiocese’s commission for justice http://www.religiousindia.org/2010/07/28/nuns-attack-vatican-on-women%e2%80%99s-ordination/ The body of a 24-year-old Catholic nun was found in the well of her convent in a village in Goa on July 26, police said. Handmaids of Christ Sister Dipti Brahmane is believed to have committed suicide by jumping into the well. The nun comes from Nasik in neighboring Maharashtra state and http://www.religiousindia.org/2010/07/28/indian-nun%e2%80%99s-body-found-in-well/ The Nagaland unit of Conference of Religious India has condemned the demolition of a Catholic Church in a village in the state allegedly by Baptists, who have banned other denominations in the village. President of the unit Fr Sebastian Chennoth SDB asserted that according to traditions, every Naga was free to http://www.religiousindia.org/2010/07/28/nagaland-cri-criticizes-demolition-of-church/ Holy Spirit Sister Karuna Maniyattu, the new director of Social Concerns of Conference of Religious India (CRI), says her experience of working among Orissa’s riot victims would help her in the new job. The work among the victims of anti-Christian violence in Orissa “will naturally be a moral boosting, as I http://www.religiousindia.org/2010/07/28/orissa-strengthens-cri%e2%80%99-new-social-concerns-director/ Teaching music to young people for better liturgy has become the mission of Sister Gracelet Mudiyappan, a member of the Pius Disciples of the Divine Master congregation. “I feel it is my mission to train people in music, to make the liturgy rich,” says the nun, a lecturer in western music http://www.religiousindia.org/2010/07/28/%e2%80%9cmusic-to-youths-liturgy-for-church%e2%80%99/ Dominican Father Paul Nguyen Thai Hop, who fled his native Vinh to go to the south as a refugee over 50 years ago, has returned home as the new bishop of Vietnam’s most populous diocese. “We warmly welcome you back to your native diocese after more than half a century away,” http://www.religiousindia.org/2010/07/28/northern-refugee-returns-home-as-bishop/ Columban Father Shay Cullen, well known for his work with poor and disadvantaged children in the Philippines, is pleading with Western consumers to opt for fair trade products. In his weekly column in the British Catholic newspaper The Universe published yesterday, Father Cullen argues that fair trade means “justice for exploited http://www.religiousindia.org/2010/07/28/priest-urges-west-to-buy-fair-trade-products/