About 100 Catholic women religious in India have called for a place at the table in church leadership and asked that canon law be amended to make it more relevant and inclusive. They stressed these and other points at a “Women in the Church” consultation held on...
The Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco addressing a group of Salesians gathered at Siliguri in North Bengal said, “the greatest problem the Church faces today is not the scandal of sexual abuse of minors by its clergy, but the scourge of clericalism and power...
Hindu groups have launched their reconversion move-ment targeting Christians in India’s Andhra Pradesh state, which church leaders say is a troubling move aimed at political gain. Hindu seers and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders conducted massive prayers and...
Nearly 100,000 people from across north-eastern India, particularly Meghalaya State, attended the state funeral of Archbishop Dominic Jala in Shillong. Archbishop John Moolachria of Guwahati, president of the North East India Bishops Council, led the Mass at the...
An anti-trafficking crusader nun in Chhattisgarh has done it again. She has rescued two more teenage girls from the central Indian state who were sold to brothels in Pune and Goa. The girls, aged 19 and 16, are siblings of a Bhil tribal family in the Kerasa village of...
