Despite Supreme Court rap, Orissa government unable to keep peace in Kandhamal without help of federal police, Christians forced to compromise with criminals.

The Pope Benedict XVI called for an end to the violence in the Holy Land and asked the international community to do everything possible to help Israelis and Palestinians find a solution to the current conflict.

The arrival of the Capuchins in India dates back to the year 1632 when a band of foreign Capuchin missionaries landed in Pondicherry. The Capuchins continued their missionary labour in Tibet, Nepal and in the Vicariate of Agra and Patna. However the idea of implanting of the Order in India was considered as a possibility only in 1880, when a novitiate house was started in Mussoorie.