The Senate on Dec 12passed a resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide, after several previous attempts to do so were blocked at the direction of the White House. Senate Resolution 150, introduced by Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), expresses “the...
Sister Lissy Vadakkel, main witness in the case of Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of sexually abusing a nun at a convent in Kerala, said pressure is being budged on her to retract her statement. She said they are forcing her to withdraw her statements over phone and...
Cardinal George Alencherry was on Dec 6 elected the president of Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council (KCBC), an association of the Catholic bishops of all three rites in the state. The head of Syro Malabar Catholic Church succeeds Abp Maria Calist Soosa Pakiam of...
An ecumenical group of Christian women has condemned increasing incidents of violence against women in India and demanded making society safer for them. “In this dreadful situation of unbridled gender violence and sexual crimes, we demand a country that is safe and...
Recently by chance, I met Father Kinley Tshering, former provincial superior of Darjeeling Jesuit Province in India, the first and only native Bhutan Catholic Priest. Bhutan is a close Buddhist theocracy with a population of less than a million, located in the Eastern...
