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Invite Pope Francis, Indian cardinals urge prime minister‍

Three Indian cardinals on January 19 met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and requested him to invite Pope Francis to the country. Talking to reporters after the meeting in Delhi, the cardinals said the prime minister agreed to their request and promised to take a decision soon. The cardinals are Oswald

UK bishops urge Indian government to release Fr Swamy

Cardinal Vincent Nichols, president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, has joined calls for the government of India to release Father Stan Swamy. The 83-year-old Indian Jesuit priest and social activist has been imprisoned since October 9, 2020, on unfounded charges of sedition and terrorism. In an open letter published on India’s Republic […]

EFI details attacks on Indian Christians

An annual report by the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI), a Protestant organization, recorded 327 violent attacks on Christians in 2020. The report said the targeted attacks included five murders, 26 incidents of social boy-cotting and six incidents of churches being destroyed or burned. “The incidents recorded are by no means an exhaustive list as many […]

Report: Indian Christians ‘Persecuted in All Areas of Life’

Christians in India face persecution “in all areas of public and private life,” according to a study by the Christian Aid group Open Doors. In majority Hindu India, “Christians are persecuted in all areas of public and private life, and anti-conversion laws (currently in nine states, with more considering adoption) are abused to harass and […]

Andhra’s Anglican schools dying

In a distressing development for Andhra Pradesh, several Anglican schools, which did decades long yeoman service in taking free education to the most oppressed sections of the society, have shut down over the years. Even as these schools shut down one after the other, there was gross inaction and negligence from successive governments of the […]

India honours Spanish Jesuit missionary posthumously

The Indian government on January 25 honoured a deceased Spanish Jesuit missionary with one of the nation´s highest civilian awards. Father Carlos Gonzalvez Valles, who died Nov. 9, 2020, in Madrid, capital of Spain, is among 102 chosen for Padma Shri (Lotus honored), the fourth highest in the awards. The posthumous award honours the Jesuit […]