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Pope Francis appoints new head of Vatican’s interreligious dialogue

Pope Francis appoint-ed Spanish Bishop Miguel Ayuso Guixot Saturday as president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. Guixot succeeds Cardinal Jean Louis Tauran, who led the Vatican dicastery for over ten years until his death in July 2018. As a priest in the Comboni Missionary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Guixot served as […]

Catholics ask Jharkhand to halt probe into overseas funding

Jharkhand governor told that selective scrutiny of only Christian institutions is a breach of India’s constitution. Bhopal: A Catholic delegation in India has sought the intervention of Jharkhand state’s governor to end what they describe as “selective” investigations targeting Christian organizations who receive foreign donations. Auxiliary Bishop Telesphore Bilung of Ranchi led the four-member delegation […]

Students blamed for arson attack on Manipur church school

Seven classrooms, a records room and offices of St. Joseph School in the Sugnu area of Chandel district were destroyed by an arson attack on the night of April 25 after six students were suspended for indiscipline. “We believe this was orchestrated in retaliation to the school management’s decision to suspend six female students of […]

Mizoram becomes dry state following new liquor law

Mizoram has once again become a “completely dry state” from Tuesday following a new liquor law that prohibits the sale and consumption of alcohol, a Minister said here. “The Mizoram Liquor (Prohibition) Bill, 2019 was passed unanimously in the state Assembly on March 20. The Bill, that received Governor JagdishMukhi’s assent before the parliamentary polls, […]

Indian bishops’ nationwide quiz ‘an exhilarating experience’

The Indian bishops’ office for education and culture has for the first time conducted a nationwide quiz involving about 30,000 Catholic school students. The event marked the 10th anniversary of the All India Catholic Education Policy. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India’s ‘Education Mastermind’ quiz culminated in the capital, New Delhi, on May 15 following […]

Constitution change disaster for Christians: Bishop

Concern’s growing for Christians in India over the potential of a change to the country’s constitution. There are fears that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) want to change the law to make India a Hindu theocratic state. Bishop Nazarene Soosai of Kottar, southern India, says that would be a disaster and that Christians “fear […]

Seminarian dies in road accident

A seminarian of Karnataka’s Bhadravathi diocese died in road accident near Shimoga, some 300 km northwest of Bengaluru, the state capital. Deacon Varghese Kannappilly died on the spot on May 27 when his motorcycle was hit from behind by a speeding jeep. The 26-year-old deacon, also called Vivin, was returning home after dropping a neighbour […]

Caste-driven honour killings still haunt India

Ratna Devi, who lives in a shanty home alongside the Yamuna River in New Delhi, remembers vividly how she and her husband were brutally assaulted by her family because she had married a socially poor Dalit man. The 33-year-old woman fell in love with the Dalit man in her home state of Haryana and married […]