BCS SCHOLARSHIPS ON OFFER
Mumbai: The Bombay Catholic Sabha has
invited applications from Catholic students belonging to
the Archdiocese of Bombay for award of scholarships or
merit prizes for the year 2008-2009. Students who have
attained excellence in any examination (aggregate or
specified subjects) or have secured a rank at any of the
examinations conducted by a recognized Board or
University are eligible to apply.
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BERNARD BLESSING BARRED FROM PREACHING IN KERALA
 Trivandrum: World-renowned evangelist and
prophet Pastor Bernard Blessing was restrained from
preaching at a convention organised by Pentecostal
groups in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The meetings,
which were to be the largest ever public gathering the
city has ever seen, were scheduled from 2 to 4 November
2009. The Ghana-based preacher who was to address a
three-day gathering at Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium was
prohibited from speaking after Hindu groups pressured
the police citing visa norms.
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SANGLIANA: POLICE ACTING HASTILY ON FALSE COMPLAINTS
AGAINST CHRISTIANS
Former police commissioner of Bangalore Dr. HT Sangliana
lashed out at Hindutva outfits falsely implicating
Christians on cooked up conversion charges in Karnataka.
Talking to press persons after two incidents of alleged
conversion surfaced on the media, Sangliana said the
accusations were part of a ploy to create fear
“psychosis” in the minds of Christians and pit the
public against the minority community.
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CSI BAGS AWARD FOR ECOLOGICAL INTERVENTION
The Church of South India on Tuesday was honored with
the International Environment Conservation Award for its
ecological intervention as a faith based community. The
award by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
in partnership with the Alliance of Religions and
Conservation (ARC) was recognition of the Church’s “Long
term Commitment to protect the Living Planet”.
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GIFT SOMEONE A BUFFALO THIS CHRISTMAS!
It might seem an eccentric Christmas campaign, but it
has favorably helped many Dalits in India for their
day-to-day survival. British families have helped send
buffaloes to impoverished families in India by meeting
Operation Mobilisation’s challenge to spend less at
Christmas.
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NE WOMEN LOOK FORWARD TO 'DECADE OF CHANGE'
A Christian women’s gathering in North East India
declared 2010 - 2020 as ‘A Decade of Women for Change’.
The declaration was made after over 500 women leaders
from Assam, Arunachal, Manipur, Meghalaya and Nagaland
gathered for a 3-day program organised by the Baptist
Women Fellowship (BWF) in Imphal, the capital city of
Manipur.
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CSW FEARS LACK OF JUSTICE FOR ORISSA VICTIMS
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has sent a letter
to EU leaders, urging them to use Friday’s summit to
raise fresh concern about the aftermath of last year’s
anti-Christian violence in Orissa, including “legitimate
fears of impunity on a large scale”.
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PRIEST’S FILM SELECTED FOR INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
A Christian priest’s documentary film was selected for
the 7th Queens International Film Festival to be held
this week in New York. The event from Nov. 12 - 15 will
feature Fr Joseph J. Palackal’s 34 min film: “Kerala the
Cradle of Christianity in South Asia: The Cultural
Interface of Music and Religion.”
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