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Hindu nationalists want Christian chaplains banned from Indian jails

Hindu nationalists in India want Christian chaplains banned from visiting prisons, claiming they are trying to convert the prisoners. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal groups complained to police in the southern Indian state Karnataka about the distribution of Bibles to the prisoners in the Gadag district jail and demanded the immediate suspension […]

False and misleading: Bangalore archbishop on Bible in class row

Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore on April 26 dis-missed as false and misleading the media reports that some Catholic schools in the southern Indian city force children to buy Bibles and bring them to class. According to an ndtv.com April 25 report a row erupted in Karnataka after a Catholic school in Bengaluru, the state […]

Be vocal about minority rights: Nuncio

Apostolic Nuncio to India Archbishop Leopold Girelli has urged the Indian Catholics to speak up for the rights of all minority groups in the country. “In this kind of struggle, if you want to call it that, we should remember that we are not standing up for just our rights as Catholics. We are standing […]

Indian Christians appeal for peace after communal clashes

Indian Christians have appealed for peace after sectarian clashes broke out in national capital New Delhi, leaving many people and police officers injured. Police arrested 23 suspects after violence erupted on April 16 during a Hindu religious procession in Jahangirpuri, a predominantly Muslim suburb. Residents said the situation remained tense on Easter Sunday in Jahangirpuri, the […]

Indian tribal people renew struggle against firing range

Tribal people including Christians will undertake a grueling 200-kilometre march against the creation of an army firing range at Netarhat in eastern India’s Jharkhand state. The march will begin at Tattapani in Latehar district on April 21 and reach the state capital of Ranchi on April 24. “We will meet Jharkhand governor Ramesh Bais on […]

Hindus enact Passion of Christ

A group of 40 Hindu men and women on April 15, Good Friday enacted the Passion of Christ in the northern Indian city of Varanasi, the heartland of Hinduism. “Varanasi presented a soothing picture of religious harmony, peace and love amid a gloomy scenario of communal polarization,” says Father Anand Mathew, the brain behind the […]

Indian Christians condemn call to boycott halal meat

Church leaders have joined political parties and the Muslim community to condemn a call by Hindu groups to boycott halal meat during the traditional New Year celebrations in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. The state celebrated the Ugadi festival followed by Hosa tadukua, which is supposed to be a day of non-vegetarian feasting, on […]

Infant sale racket: Catholic nun demands probe

A Catholic nun working among the poor, especially Dalits, has expressed shock at the expo-sure of an infant selling racket in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Poverty alone is not the rea-son for the “rather unfortunate” racket, asserts Sister Manju Devarapalli, secretary of the National Dalit Christian Watch (NDCW). The Carmelite Missionaries nun […]

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Pope: Red Cross’ humanitarian work shows that fraternity is possible

New Vatican document lists ‘grave violations’ of human dignity