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AMNESTY SLAMS INDIA FOR INCREASED RELIGION-BASED VIOLENCE‍

India’s religious minority groups, particularly Muslims, face increasing demonization by hard-line Hindu groups, pro-government media and state officials, says the annual report of rights watchdog Amnesty International. India’s coalition government led by the pro-Hindu Bharati- ya Janata Party (

RELIGIOUS NATIONALISM IN INDIA SELF-ANNIHILATION: BISHOPS

Promotion of nationalism based on religion threatened India with annihilation, the nation’s Catholic bishops warned at the conclusion of a biennial meeting. The alarm was sounded following a series of hard-line Hindu attacks on Christian and other religious minorities. This included attempts by mobs of young Hindus to conduct avowedly patriotic rituals in the grounds of Catholic colleges, notably involving the personification of […]

TAMIL NADU TOPS IN HATE CRIMES AGAINST CHRISTIANS

Tamil Nadu State in southern India recorded the highest incidents of anti- Christian violence during 2017, according to a study by the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI). The national alliance of evangelical Christians on February 16 released its annual report on hate crimes against Christians in India for 2017. The fellowship’s Religious Liberty Commission documented […]

SYRO MALABAR CATHOLICS IN DELHI GET NEW CEMETERY

Syro-Malabar diocese of Faridabad has opened a cemetery in its own private land after acquiring necessary civil permissions to use it as a Christian burial ground exclusively for its members. Archbishop Kuriakose Bharanikulangara of Faridabad dedicated the burial ground and blessed a new chapel attached to it on Feb. 17 at Sanjoepuram village in Faridabad […]

JESUIT PRIEST (IRUDAYA JOTHI) BAGS ‘SOCIAL ACTIVIST AWARD’

Jesuit Father Irudya Jothi, director of Udayani (awakening), bagged the “Social Activist Award” at a function in Mumbai, western India. “I am extremely happy to receive an award called Modi Making Of Developed India from the Economic Times Now group along with World Corporate Social Responsibility groups at Taj Land Mumbai,” Father Jothi told Matters […]

CHURCH ASSETS NOT PUBLIC PROPERTY, ASSERTS CARDINAL ALENCHERRY

Cardinal George Alencherry, head of the Syro-Malabar Church, says the Church assets cannot be considered as public property. The cardinal made this assertion on February 19 in the Kerala High Court. The court has sought the prelate’s explanation on a petition filed by a layman seeking a police probe into the controversial land deal in […]