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...
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...
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...
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...
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”...
