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PRO-HINDU TRIBAL PEOPLE TAKE OVER INDIAN CHURCH

Pro-Hindu tribal people have removed a cross from a Protestant Church and converted the building into their community hall in India’s Jharkhand State in a move that Christian leaders believe is linked to upcoming elections. Some 50 tribal people took down the cross from the Vishwa Vani (voice of the world) church in Khadnga village, […]

US MISSIONARY WHO HELPED YOUTHS BREAK FROM DRUGS PASSES AWAY

Bangladeshis are mourning a prominent American Catholic missionary who dedicated much of his life to the treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts in the South Asian nation. Holy Cross Brother Ronald Drahozal passed away at a retirement and treatment facility run by his order in the U.S. State of Indiana on Oct. 16. He was […]

PAKISTANI HEAD TEACHER SUSPENDED FOR ATTACKING CHRISTIAN STUDENT

Pakistani authorities have suspended the head teacher of a government school for assaulting a Christian student and abusing his mother. Nusrat Shaheen was suspended on Oct. 22 after a complaint of discrimination against 12-year- old Sharjeel Masih by his parents. Sharjeel, a fourth grader, was beaten and suspended for a week from the Government Boys […]

VIETNAM UPHOLDS CATHOLIC ACTIVIST’S HARSH SENTENCE

An appeals court in central Vietnam has confirmed a harsh sentence imposed on a Catholic activist accused of trying to overthrow the nation’s communist government. Attorney Dang Dinh Manh said on Oct. 18 that the Superior People’s Court upheld John Baptist Le Dinh Luong’s sentence of 20-years’ imprisonment to be followed by five years of […]

IN VIETNAM’S CENTRAL HIGHLANDS FAITH IS SPREADING

Every Sunday, Paul Rmah Bral and a partner, along with other friendly men in pairs, travel around on motorbikes in Vietnam’s Central Highlands region introducing villagers to Catholic values. Bral is a 60-year-old ethnic Jarai, part of a wider group known as Montagnards, who speak a Malayo-Polynesian language related to other tongues in the Asia-Pacific […]

CHINA ECONOMICS SPURS MYANMAR RELIGIOUS REPRESSION

In recent months there has been a crackdown on religious practices by an ethnic militia force in a remote region on Myanmar’s mountainous border with China. Churches in northern Shan State have been closed, crosses torn down and pastors and other Christian leaders detained by the United Wa State Army (UWSA). On October 9 about […]

AUTHORITIES SHUT DOWN SIX MORE CHURCHES IN GUIYANG

  At least six unregistered Protestant churches in Guiyang city, Guizhou Province in Southwest China were shut down by authorities on 8 October. All six churches are from the same district and it is believed that similar forced closures are occurring in other districts in the city. The churches, which have a total of around […]

SYNOD GROUPS ON SEXUALITY: CHURCH WELCOMES ALL, CALLS ALL TO CONVERSION

No one is excluded from the love of God or from being welcomed into the Catholic Church, but God’s love and the church’s welcome also come with a call to conversion, said the English- language groups at the Synod of Bishops. Young people need to know “the church’s beautiful, yet challenging, vision, teaching and anthropology […]