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Opposition parties demand release of Jesuit priest, activists‍

Opposition leaders on October 21 expressed solidarity human rights activists such as Jesuit Father Stan Swamy and lawyers arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, and demanded the repeal of the stringent law. Addressing a webinar organized by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties

Indian Christians pardon cross desecration amid political suspicions

Catholics in a southern Indian diocese have pardoned vandals who desecrated a Christian cross, but some suspect the divisive move aimed to create religious discord ahead of state elections in Kerala next year. The incident, the second of its type in a month, took place on Oct. 24 in Thamarassery Diocese, where five young men […]

India’s BJP begins targeting minority schools

In India’s Assam State hundreds of Muslim cleric-run schools, popularly called Madrasas, now face an existential crisis. Assam’s Minister for Education Himanta Biswa Sarma has announced from November onward, the government in the north-eastern state will stop financing the Madrasas. “Teaching Quran cannot happen at the cost of government money. If we have to do […]

Christian shot dead inside Indian church as persecution intensifies

A Christian man was shot dead and three people were injured when assailants entered a Pentecostal Church and opened fire indiscriminately in India’s Punjab State. Police arrested three persons connected with the attack and are searching for four others who escaped, Christian leaders told. The attack happened as Christians were leaving the church after a […]

Lack of political will keeps India hungry

India, a land of abundance and enduring democracy, has slipped below neighbour Bangladesh in the poverty index and will have to work hard to play the big brother role in South Asia. More than seven decades after their country escaped its British colonial legacy, Indians are relatively worse off than their counterparts in Bangladesh, Myanmar […]

Priests release book on Church financial administrative culture

Ten diocesan priests from Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry have released a book on the Church financial administrative culture. “It was a soul searching process while we prepared the book Akkarai (concern) 2020,” Father Devasagayaraj M Zackarias, one of the authors and a former national secretary of the Indian bishops’ office for Scheduled Castes and Backward […]