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Bishop supports dam-affected Indian villager’s struggle

Catholic Church officials are backing a hunger strike in support of demands for com-pensation and rehabilitation for 40,000 families affected by a major dam project in central India’s Madhya Pradesh State. Protesters say increased water levels in the Sardar Sarovar Dam will submerge 912 villages while officials maintain that affected people have already been compensated […]

Churches, mosques must have nationalist slogan: BJP leader

A leader of pro-Hindu BJP party wants morning prayer calls from mosques and sounds of bells from churches be replaced with shouts of nationalist slogans. President of the Bihar unit of the party Nityanand Rai said “sound of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ (hail mother India) should replace azaan from mosques and sounds of bells from […]

Christian leaders call on community to resist attacks

Christian intellectuals in India have called on the community to safeguard pluralism and fight fringe elements targeting Chri-stian, Muslim and other minori-ties. In an open letter to Catholic and Protestant leaders, 101 Christian theologians, academics and members of different orga-nisations expressed concern over Hindu nationalism “What used to be fringe, has now become main-stream,” the […]

NUN KNOWN AS ‘MOTHER TERESA OF PAKISTAN’ TO RECEIVE STATE FUNERAL

The government of Pakistan will accord a state funeral to Sister Ruth Katharina Martha Pfau, a German-born member of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary who devoted her life to eradicating leprosy in Pakistan. Sister Ruth, dubbed the Mother Teresa of Pakistan, died on 10 August in Karachi. She was 87. “Sister Ruth was […]

Pope Francis to make surprise visit to Myanmar on peace mission

Pope Francis will focus on trying to improve the troubles of about a million ethnic Muslim Rohingyas when he visits Myanmar, in the first ever papal visit to the country. The visit is due to take place in the last week of November after the Pope was personally invited by President Htin Kyaw. News of […]

Nuns help Vietnamese farmers adapt to climate change

Sister Mary Vu Thi Ngoc, head of the climate change group that was established in 2010, visits a farm in Huong Thuy District on July 20. (ucanews.com photo) Seven years ago, Truong Thi Hat cultivated cassava on a 3,000 square-meter farm that yielded poor harvests due to drought, floods, and termites at Quang Tho village […]

Indian nun promotes inter-faith dialogue in Indonesia

Promotion of inter-religious dialogue in Indonesia’s multi-religious cultural context is a top priority, says an Indian nun working in the Bali Island of the South East Asian nation. “It is Catholic Church’s calling that we make efforts to foster and strengthen the culture of inter-faith interaction on a daily basis with people of other religions […]

Vatican investigates bishop’s money, alleged mistress

The Holy See has appointed an apostolic visitator to look into claims by Indonesian rebel priests that their bishop kept a mistress and misappropriated church funds. Holy Cross Bishop Antonius Subianto Bunjamin of Bandung was assigned to investigate and will visit Ruteng Diocese on Flores Island next week. Bishop Bunjamin, who is also general secretary […]