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Church group joins protest against India’s new farm laws

Indian farmers are bracing for another major showdown with the federal government after accusing its new farm laws of ignoring their interests and promoting multinational firms. A church-backed body has joined farmers’ unions in asking the government to withdraw two laws that parliament passed on Sept. 20. The government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s […]

Indian Christians upset at MP’s remarks about missionary

A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader has alleged that Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines, who was murder-ed along with his two sons in Odisha in 1999, was involved in conversion activities among tribal people. During his submission on the debate on the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, Satya Pal Singh told parliament that Staines’ organization, […]

Tribal Christians tonsured in Jharkhand village

Seven tribal Christians were allegedly beaten, partially ton-sured and forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram.” (Hail Lord Ram) in a Jharkhand village for allegedly slaughtering a cow. The September 16 incident, reported to the police the next day, came to public only on September 25 when former zilla parishad (district council) member and social activist […]

Tangkhul Churches fast, pray for Naga solution

Tangkhul Churches on September 24 fasted and prayed for Naga unity and for peaceful settlement of the Naga political issue. Briefing the media, Remember Rimai, convener of Tangkhul Community Inter-Denomination Churches leaders and a pastor of Union Baptist Church in Ukhrul town, highlighted the main objectives of holding the fasting prayer program across Tangkhul villages. […]

Historic or hysterical? The Modi way and how India was let down

There is a mixed bag in governance in India these days. On one hand, Muslims are demonized, Christians’ charity and philanthropic works are linked to the forced conversion debate and quite often sedition laws or the controversial Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA) are used to silence dissent. Then there is the latent anguish of […]

Vatican envoy’s removal cheers up some Indian Catholics

Several Catholic groups in India have expressed relief after the Vatican removed its controversial envoy from the country. Pope Francis on August 29 suddenly transferred Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro, apostolic nuncio to India and Nepal, to Brazil amid accusations of inaction against allegedly corrupt bishops. “I saw the nuncio’s transfer as a small moral victory, not […]

Nobody knows how many migrants have died from COVID-19

Since there are no data on the deaths of migrant workers from COVID-19, the question of compensation “does not arise,” India’s Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Santosh Gangwar, told parliament. This has sparked harsh reactions by opposition parties and civil society groups. Against this backdrop, internal migrants are the group that suffered the […]

Belgian Jesuit who taught Indian seminarians for 55 years dies

Jesuit Father Erik Breye, a seminary professor, retreat preacher and a confessor and counsellor for seminarians and nuns, died of cardiac arrest on September 18 in Ranchi, capital of Jharkhand State in eastern India. He was 79. Father Raymond Kerketta, socius (secretary) to the Ranchi Jesuit province, noted in a condolence message that Father Breye […]