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Orphaned children in India. Lynne Dobson/Miracle Foundation.

Catholic diocese in India offers cash incentives, scholarships for couples with more children

Aug 7, 2021

The Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Diocese of Palai in Kerala state said it will pay 1,500 rupees (about US$21) monthly to the families and will provide free education to the fourth and the subsequent children.

Bishop Matthew Gyamfi addressing participants of the 18th Biennial Plenary Assembly of the Tamale Ecclesiastical Province Pastoral Conference (TEPPCON) in Tamale. / Francis Monnie

Ghana’s Catholic Population Decline Requires “fisherman model of evangelization”: Bishop

Dec 5, 2019

While the Catholic population in the world’s second largest continent, Africa, continues to grow a Bishop in the West African nation of Ghana has raised concerns over the declining number of Catholics in his country, describing the phenomenon as a challenge that seems to indicate that pastoral agents “are not reaching all corners of our country” and that requires the application of the “Shepherd’s approach and the Fisherman’s model of evangelization”