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Indian president commends Church for work among poor‍

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind on August 24 told a delegation of Catholic prelates that the Church’s work for the poor and downtrodden was commendable. While the whole world speaks of development, spirituality in this development is also important; the president told the eight-member delegation

Odisha Christians congratulate India’s “best administrator”

A 12-member Christian dele-gation on August 23 met Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to congratulate him for becoming India’s best administrator. Abp John Barwa of Cuttack Bhubaneswar led the delegation comprising priests, religious and lay people. They met the chief at his office on behalf of all Chri-stians in the eastern Indian state. The “Outlook,” […]

Nazareth Sisters bring relief to flood affected in Bihar 

The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth have come to the aid of people in ten villages reeling under flood fury in Bihar’s Madhepura district. Around 24,000 people live in 81 wards of 12 panchayats under the Goalpara block of the district reeling under the flood fury Goalpara block is around 290 km north of the […]

Goa’s Catholics not apprehensive about beef ban: Parrikar

Goan Catholics are not apprehensive about the beef ban issue in the state’s context, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said. He was responding to a query if in course of his campaign for the Panaji by-poll, Catholic voters had expressed their grievances about the beef ban narrative at the national level. “Nothing is coming through. Those […]

‘Democracy under threat from pseudo-nationalism, right-wing fanaticism’

Indian democracy is under threat from “pseudo-nationalism” and “right-wing fanaticism mas-querading as nationalism,” a column published in Renovacao, a Goa Church periodical, has said. “Quo Vadis India?” by Father Savio Fernandes in the latest edition of the pastoral bulletin of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman, also bemoans efforts to make India a Hindu Rashtra […]

CSI pulls out of Kerala Council of Churches

The Church of South India (CSI) has decided to pull out from the Kerala Council of Churches (KCC), an ecumenical forum of non-Catholic Protestant Churches in Kerala, in protest against the KCC decision to provide membership to the Believers Church. The second largest Christian denomination after the Catholic Church, CSI is the largest Protestant denomination […]