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Bombay Court stays demolition of two crosses

The Bombay High court on June 30 by way of interim relief, restrained the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) from demolishing two Holy crosses located in Bandra (W) until further orders. A division bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Vibha Kankanwadi restrained the BMC while hearing a petition filed by Bombay Catholic Sabha. Senior Counsel […]

Catholics boost Madhya Pradesh’s tree planting drive

Church groups in the central Indian State of Madhya Pradesh have joined a government ini-tiative to plant millions of saplings to arrest climate change and propagate a message of conserving water. All nine Catholic dioceses in the state joined the government’s 12-hour long tree plantation drive on July 2. The government claimed 60 million saplings […]

Why was Mother Teresa’s uniform trademarked? 

For nearly half a century, Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun who worked with the poor in the Indian city of Kolkata wore a simple white sari with three blue stripes on the borders, one thicker than the rest. Senior nuns who work for Missionaries of Charity, a 67-year-old sisterhood which has more than 3,000 […]

Uzhunnalil alive: Yemen deputy prime minister 

Sushma Swaraj, the External Affairs Minister  of India asked her visiting Yemeni Abdulmalik Abduljalil Al-Mekhlafi to secure the safe and early release of abducted Indian priest Father Tom Uzhunnalil after being told he was still alive. In the meeting, Al-Mekhlafi conveyed that, according to available information, Father Uzhunnalil was alive and the Yemen government has […]

Church condemns attack on pilgrims in Kashmir 

The Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI) on July 10 condemned what it calls “dastardly attack” on Hindu pilgrims in Kashmir. “To attack people going to worship is to attack the very essence of what makes us human beings,” says a statement issued by the Protestant Church soon after Indian television channels reported the killing of […]

Brave nun fights for women’s rights in Pakistan

The year was 1986. Sister Genevieve Ram Lal was being driven away from Lahore High Court when she noticed armed men in a car following her. “We were fighting a case for abducted Christian brick makers in a nearby district. The Franciscan priest, sitting behind the steering wheel, knew the streets well and managed to […]

Indonesian lay Catholics join priests in demanding their bishop resigns

Lay Catholics have joined dozens of priests in demanding Ruteng Diocese’s embattled bishop quit for allegedly misappropriating more than US$100,000 in church funds and having an affair with a woman. In a July 1 statement signed by 30 people, they said “resignation” was the best course of action for Flores Island’s Bishop Hubertus Leteng as […]

Indonesia Catholic educators aim to counter extremism

The guidelines are expected to be ready in the next few months and implemented in Catholic schools when the next academic year begins. “What we are doing is in response to the current situation, where radicalism is so strong, including among teenagers,” Franciscan Father Vinsensius Darmin Mbula, chairman of the National Council of Catholic Education […]