Goa, a tiny Indian state, has produced about 60 bishops and cardinals for India, Pakistan and Africa, said Father Joaquim Loiola Pereira, secretary to Archbishop Filipe Neri da Rosario Ferrao of ...

Friday 1) 2 p.m. Church crawl. Hire a car and driver and get your historical bearings in Goa Velha (Old Goa), the original walled Portuguese city once hailed as the Rome of the East.

New information: The World Heritage Centre undertook a mission to Goa in January 1999 to develop a project proposal based on co-operation between the local authorities of Old Goa (India), Guimareas ...

Goa – a former Portuguese colony which was annexed by India in 1961 – is considered a center of Latin Rite Catholicism in the country, and Christians make up about a quarter of the population ...

The modern state of Goa is nothing like as overwhelmingly Catholic as it was in Portuguese times, and the proportion of Hindus now approaches two-thirds. This does not mean that overall Christian ...

Church demands the documentary film be withdrawn calling it false and narrow-minded. Goa's Hindu fundamentalist influenced state government wants it widely distributed.

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Villagers in India's Goa state have started a hunger strike against environmental policies amid accusations that the Catholic Church supports such protests. They started the hunger strike on May 9 as ...

Panaji (Goa) [India], April 26 (ANI): As India observes a day of mourning on the demise of Pope Francis, the Church of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception in Panaji, Goa, held a prayer for the Pope ...

Speaking at an event in a church here, Pillai, a former BJP state president of Kerala, said the Christian population in Goa had come down to 25 per cent from the earlier 36 per cent. "I spoke to a ...