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Issue: No 2561 07-09-2016
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Ecumenical
Evangelical
Interdenominational
John 14:23
“Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my
teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home
with them.”
HEADLINE
Why Catholics are leaving the faith by age 10 – and
what parents can do about it
Washington D.C., September 5, 2016: Young Catholics are
leaving the faith at an early age – sometimes before the age of 10 – and their
reasons are deeper than being “bored at Mass,” the author of a new report
claims. “Those that are leaving for no religion – and a pretty big component of
them ...
INDIA
Orphans gifted full stomachs, shiny smiles on canonisation
Mumbai, September 6, 2016: From free meals to dental camps,
Mumbaikars celebrated the canonisation of Mother Teresa on Sept 4, in unique
and some ‘undisclosed’ ways. “St Jude’s Church in Malad, Cathedral of the Holy
Name in Colaba, and Good Shepherd Church in Andheri are among the churches
which have taken up distribution of free ...
Goa-based yogi priest was guided by Mother Teresa
Panaji, September 6, 2016: Fr Joe Pereira, founder of Kripa
Foundation that revolutionized the entire concept of rehabilitation for
chemical dependency and HIV/AIDS, received much guidance from Mother Teresa.
The priest is also an Iyengar yoga proponent. Fr Pereira was among the few
priests from India who concelebrated Mother Teresa’s historic canonization mass
along with ...
Activists oppose Mumbai’s new security bill
Mumbai, September 6, 2016: India’s Maharashtra state plans to
introduce its own security law to check terrorism, insurgency, caste-related
violence and sectarianism in an area that includes Mumbai, the nation’s
commercial hub, but many rights activists question the move. The state
government — run by a coalition of Hindu nationalist parties — made public last
...
ASIA +
Faisalabad bishop: Pakistan is mourning for the attack on
Peshawar’s Christian colony
Lahore, September 6, 2016: All Pakistan “is in mourning for
last-week’s Taliban attack against the Christian colony on Warsak Road near
Peshawar,” said Mgr Arshad Joseph, bishop of Faisalabad and president of the
National Commission for Justice and Peace of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference
of Pakistan, and Shane Cecil Chaudhry, executive director of the same ...
WORLD
Kayla Mueller refused to deny Christ despite being raped &
tortured by ISIS, Ex-hostage says
Iraq, September 2, 2016: Four former hostages who were held
by the Islamic State terror group at an abandoned oil refinery in Syria in 2014
have revealed that Kayla Mueller, the Christian aid worker who was slain in IS
captivity last year, refused to deny Jesus Christ despite being repeatedly
raped and tortured. Frida Saide ...
MISCELLANEOUS
The sin of talking too much
Is it a sin to talk too much? Well, that depends. Years ago,
our men’s small group discussed the discipline of the tongue. After reading a
chapter in Disciplines of a Godly Man by Kent Hughes, and verses from Proverbs
that address the issue, some of us were tempted to stop talking all together!
However, ...
CARTOON
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