From The States

Bishops ask Kerala state to end anti-Christian policy

The Synod of India’s eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church has appealed to the Kerala State government to end discrimination against Christians in distributing benefits intended for religious minorities. The Synod’s call came in the concluding statement issued on Jan 15. Of the 64 bishops, 57 attended the Jan. 7-15 assembly at Church headquarters in Kochi, the […]

Christian among seven murdered in Indian tribal village

Police have confirmed the murder of seven tribal people, at least one of them Christian, four days after they were reported missing from their village in eastern India’s Jharkhand State. The seven, who opposed the Pathalgadi movement for autonomy, were kidnapped on Jan. 19, reportedly by rivals, and murdered, official Murari Lal Meena told media on […]

Youth engage in Salesian social projects around world

Starting mid-January, 1,157 young people will have an opportunity to give back through civil service volunteering. Salesians per il Sociale (Salesians for Social) coordinates the Universal Civil Service in Italy and other countries, which enables youth to have these life-changing volunteer experiences.

Bengaluru church desecrated, archbishop calls for reparation

Abp. Peter Machado of Bangalore on January 21 urged Catholics in his archdiocese to observe a day of reparation after miscreants desecrated sacred Hosts in a church. “I am not only terribly shocked and greatly grieved that desecration was done to the Eucharistic Lord in that church,” the archbishop said in a press note.

Salesians educate 300 poor children in Rajasthan villages

The Don Bosco Development Society is providing education in 10 villages in the State of Rajasthan, for 300 extremely poor and disadvantaged children, including children of farmers and workers in quarries. The educational project is supported by the van Ameringen Foundation, which provides funds for innovative and practical programs for early intervention. Don Bosco Development […]

Kerala Church welcomes state check on religious education

A church official in the southern Indian State of Kerala has welcomed a direction from the state’s High Court for privately run schools not to impart religious education without government permission. The court ruled on whether schools unaided by the state can promote a particular religion to the exclusion of other religions in elementary schools. “It is […]

India’s Eastern rite Church seeks clarification on controversial law

Bishops of India’s eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church have urged the federal government to clarify amendments made to the country’s citizenship law on Jan. 11, a day after the new law came into force. The prelates’ call came during their ongoing Bishops’ Synod, the Church’s top decision-making gathering, at their headquarters in Kochi city in southern Kerala […]

Bishops ask Alencherry to clarify stand to laity

Kochi, Jan 14, 2020: The issue of land deals has come up for discussion during the Synod session of the Syro-Malabar Church now under-way at the Church headquarters in Kochi. Nine bishops of the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese raised the issue on January 13 when a suggestion came up that the Synod could admit to the losses incurred […]

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