Vatican: Even if persecuted, Christians must announce and bear witness to the Gospel, pope says
As he welcomed the participants to the General Assembly of the Pontifical Missions Society (PMS), Benedict XVI emphasised that in our age, the Church cannot avoid “explicitly” proclaiming its faith and pursuing its action for the advent of the Kingdom of God, a “Kingdom of justice, peace, freedom ...
Saturday, May 14, 2011By Asia News  read more »

In Jerusalem, Christian pilgrims filled the cobblestone alleyways of the walled Old City to commemorate Jesus' crucifixion there two millennia ago. Thousands of international visitors and local Christians retraced Christ's last steps down the Via Dolorosa, or "Way of Suffering." The route ends at the ancient Church of the Holy Sepulcher, revered as the site of Jesus' crucifixion, burial, and resurrection on Easter.
VATICAN CITY - In an unprecedented move, Pope Benedict XVI held a televised question-and-answer session to mark Good Friday, fielding queries from as far away as Japan, Iraq, and the Ivory Coast on topics as wide-ranging as death, violence, intimidation, and suffering.Benedict told a Japanese girl frightened by the earthquake and tsunami in her homeland that her suffering was not in vain, and assured a Muslim woman in violence-wracked Ivory Coast of the Vatican's peace efforts there.  read more »

On April 10, the funeral rites of Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil will begin from 2.30 pm onwards. Catholic Bishops’ Council of India president Cardinal Oswald Gracious, CCBI president Cardinal Telesfor Topo, Vatican representative in India, heads of Malankara and Latin Churches and other Church leaders will attend the funeral of Va r k e y C a r d i n a l Vithayathil.  read more »

On March 12, 2011, at about 5 p.m. it announced by the Hyderabad Archdiocesan office that Bishop Thumma Bala is appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as the next Archbishop of Hyderabad to succeed late Archbishop Marampudi Joji who had passed away in August 2010.Global council of Indian Christians(GCIC) pray that new arch bishop will be blessed with discernment to lead church to glorify Jesus our saviour  read more »

Vatican City, Jan 1- Pope Benedict XVI today urged world leaders to defend Christians against abuse and intolerance after a New Year's day bomb attack in a Coptic church in Egypt claimed 21 lives.  read more »

October 17, 2010
. Several thousands of people packed St. Peter's Square for the canonization of Australia's first saint Mary MacKillop, and four others including a Canadian.

Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed Australia’s first saint on Sunday, canonizing a 19th-century nun and also declaring five other saints in an open-air Mass attended by tens of thousands.  read more »