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Northern Indian bishops to launch migrant resource centres

Catholic dioceses in northern India plan to set up centres to help migrant labourers. This was decided on August 7 during a virtual meeting organized by the Commission for Migrants under the Regional Bishops’ Council of the North (RBCN) in collaboration with its counterpart under the Conference of Catholic Bishops’ of India (CCBI). The diocesan […]

Case filed against bishop for breaking corona restrictions

Police in Kerala have registered a case against Bishop Remigiose Inchananiyil of Thamarassery for breaking coronavirus restrictions. The Syro-Malabar prelate is among 40 people charged by the police for participating in a protest at the Forest Range Office in Thamarassery, near Kozhiko-de, a town in northern Kerala. A collective of 15 farmer organizations under the […]

Indian bishop appeals to Supreme Court against rape charge

Bishop Franco Mulakkal of India’s Jalandhar Diocese, who is facing trial on charges of raping a Catholic nun, has appealed to the country’s top court to clear him, pleading innocence after two lower courts rejected a similar petition. The Supreme Court of India registered Bishop Mulakkal’s discharge plea on July 24 and agreed to hear him, according to […]

Rome gifts a basilica to Syro-Malabar faithful

The faithful of the Syro-Malabar rite now have a basilica for worship. The community coordinator, Fr Biju Muttathu-nnel, comments: “We are all celebrating, it is a great gift from the diocese and the Vatican.” An estimated 7 thousand faithful belonging to this rite live in the Italian capital and surrounding province: originating in Kerala (Southern […]

Indian Protestant bishop breaks away, declares free church

A bishop of the Protestant Church of North India (CNI) has broken away and declared his diocese autonomous following differences with the church’s national administrative body. Bishop Basil B. Baskey of Chotanagpur Diocese in Jharkhand State was asked to go on leave soon after he announced the rebellious move. The CNI synod, its top decision-making body, constituted a probe into […]

Church joins to oppose coal mine auction in Jharkhand

Church leaders and activists have joined political leaders in opposing the federal government’s decision to auction coal blocks for commercial mining in the eastern Indian State of Jharkhand, which they say will disturb biodiversity and cause displacement. Hearing the case on July 15, the Supreme Court asked the federal government’s opinion on Jharkhand State government […]

Telangana Christians want church inside state secretariat

A body representing prominent churches in the southern Indian State of Telangana has urged the state government to build a church along with a temple and a mosque in the new secretariat. The Federation of Telugu Churches, a body of churches in the state, also reminded their Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao about a regular […]

Tamil Nadu bishops launch online career guidance for Dalits

Catholic Bishops in Tamil Nadu have started an online program to provide career guidance to Dalit students in the southern Indian State. Although the Tamil Nadu Bishops’ Council have conducted many career guidance programs in the past this is the first online career guidance program for Dalit Christians, said Bishop P. Thomas Paulsamy of Dindigul […]

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

New Vatican document lists ‘grave violations’ of human dignity