The Madras High Court has held that salaries and grants-in-aid to nuns and priests are liable to attract tax deducted at source. “In our opinion, the provisions of Income-Tax law are dry, plain and simple, a political and a religious in character,” the court said in a...
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has expressed “profound sorrow” at the death of Manohar Parrikar, the Chief Minister of Goa and former federal Minister for Defence. Parrikar, 63 died from pancreatic cancer on March 17. “We can truly say that Goa and...
Indian Church’s top communicators were urged to boldly present Church’s perspective on issues without running away from uncomfortable realities. Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) secretary general Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas and other experts suggested...
Rising unemployment and nationalism on religious lines are the two key issues bothering citizens ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, revealed a survey conducted by Lokniti-CSDS and the Azim Premji University. “20% of those surveyed said unemployment was the biggest...
Ahead of the general elections in India in April, Church officials have issued pastoral guidelines asking Catholics to reject candidates who espouse certain ideologies and vote for guardians of secularism and democracy. Cardinal Oswald Gracias, president of the...
