Pope’s Francis’ recent comments on gay civil union are misunderstood and misinter-preted, says Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the head of the Catholic Church in India and one of the seven advisers of the pontiff. “There is no change in the Church doctrine at all. The Holy...
The Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) has said it stands in solidarity with Indian Jesuit priest Father Stan Swamy and all who support the rights of indigenous people. “It is with great shock and agony the FABC heard of the arrest of the 83-year-old...
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...
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...
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,...
