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Police remove Hindu Idol from Indian church‍

Police have removed the idol of a Hindu deity that a group of Hindus forcefully installed inside a Protestant church in India’s Haryana State. Some 100 state police personnel in two buses arrived at the Assembly of God Church in Faridabad town and removed the idol on June 27, a week after its installation. No […]

Tamil Nadu bishops launch online career guidance for Dalits

Catholic Bishops in Tamil Nadu have started an online program to provide career guidance to Dalit students in the southern Indian State. Although the Tamil Nadu Bishops’ Council have conducted many career guidance programs in the past this is the first online career guidance program for Dalit Christians, said Bishop P. Thomas Paulsamy of Dindigul […]

Archbishop, nuns among India’s spiralling Covid-19 cases

A Catholic archbishop and 12 nuns are among thousands of persons who have tested positive for Covid-19 in India in the past days. The nuns work at a church-run hospital in the north-eastern State of Assam. State officials sealed off their hospital and moved them to a government facility for treatment. Retired Archbishop Bernard Moras […]

Covid-19: Mission hospital in Assam sealed, nuns infected

A mission hospital in Assam’s Dibrugarh town was sealed after 12 Catholic nuns, including a doctor, was tested Covid-19 positive. The nuns and a domestic support working in the St Vincenza Gerosa (VG) Hospital were on July 4 found to be infected with the coronavirus. The first to test positive was the superior of the […]

Asian bishops condemn China security law

The federation of Asian Bishops conferences has conde-mned China’s imposition of a new security law in Hong Kong, arguing that it “destroys” the city’s autonomy. Cardinal Bo, Archbishop of Yangon in Myanmar, and president of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences, issued a statement on 1 July 2020, condemning the new law and calling for […]