The Syro Malabar Church synod held a valedictory function of the silver jubilee celebration of the church attaining the archieprachy status at its headquarters at St Thomas Mount on Saturday, January 13. Louis Raphaël Sako Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church...
A court in central India has sentenced a Catholic priest and a nun to two months each in jail for defying a court order to reinstate two students their school expelled two years ago. The district court in Ujjain town of Madhya Pradesh state also asked Father Sebastian...
Pope Francis’s visit to Bangladesh “was a celebration of our cultural identity, of harmony, of diversity, and peace,” according to the country’s first cardinal. Card. Patrick D’Rozario, Archbishop of Dhaka, was in neighbouring India this week, on a family visit in...
Indian Dalits, former-ly known as untouchables, are challenging the supre-macist ideology of hard-line Hindu groups. But rights activists are blaming Hindu fundamenta-lism for a recent attack on Dalits celebrating victory in a 19th century battle against their...
Some 5,000 Christians marched silently through India’s Jharkhand state demanding the release of six Christians jailed last week on complaints of offering money to villagers to attract them to Christianity. The Sept. 25 ecumenical “silent protest” was organized after a...
