A group Christian women theologians in India has expre-ssed shock and pain at the increasing incidents of sexual assaults on young Dalit women in the country. “We strongly condemn these acts of violence and call upon the state machinery to ensure a free and fair probe...
Hindu groups in India are planning to launch a nationwide campaign to curb religious conversion, which they claim is a form of violence and a crime. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its affiliate Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) say religious conversion is rampant in...
Christian families in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh had their houses vandalized after refusing to follow the local Sarna religion. A mob attacked houses in five villages in Kondagaon district of Bastar division on Sept. 22-23, PTI news agency reported....
Bishop Vincenzo Guo Xijin of the Mindong diocese announced his decision to resign from public life and retire to a life of prayer in a speech delivered at his last public Mass on the evening of Oct. 4. Guo, who has suffered homelessness and imprisonment many times at...
Vincent Lüthi was among the 38 new recruits who took oath of allegiance to Pope Francis in the Vatican on October 4. The 22-year-old grew up in Cugy, Switzerland and the only child of a Swiss father and a Filipino mother from Santa Fe town on Bantayan Island in Cebu...
