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Five Christians get bail a month after arrest for conversion in India

Madhya Pradesh High Court in central India has granted bail to five of nine Christians arrest-ed a month ago on charges of violating a law that criminalizes religious conversions. The court on Feb. 4 granted bail after state police failed to substantiate the charges filed against the five. “The other four in jail are also […]

Commission rejects Indian Christians’ plea to change poll date

The Election Commission of India has turned down a request to change the election date in West Bengal and Assam from Maundy Thursday. The All India Catholic Union (AICU), the largest laity movement in Asia, submitted a petition asking the commission to reconsider holding polls on April 1, the day before Good Friday, in the […]

Myanmar priest follows nun’s peacemaker act

A day after a Kachin nun’s brave act in confronting security forces, a Catholic priest played a mediator role in a Catholic stronghold in northeastern Myanmar. Wearing a white robe, Father Celso Ba Shwe, apostolic administrator of Loikaw Diocese, walked in front of dozens of security personnel who stood ready to crack down on anti-coup […]

Philippine Jesuit schools call for end to Myanmar violence

Five Jesuit-run universities in the Philippines have issued a joint statement condemning an ongoing deadly crackdown on street protests against Myanmar’s military coup that has claimed at least 70 lives, according to the United Nations. The military takeover on Feb. 1 and the subsequent repression of pro-democracy protesters was illegal and a gross violation of […]

Catholic nun saves young demonstrators: Cardinal Bo wants the country to be “transformed”

A Catholic religious woman took to the streets in the city of a, the capital of Kachin State in the north of Mynamar, and ask-ed the security forces not to shoot young demonstrators who are protesting peacefully. Sister Ann Nu Thawng of the Congregation of St Francis Xavier in the diocese of Myitkyina, became the […]

Christians protest after church demolition in Bangladesh

Christians in Bangladesh claim they are being per-secuted after the demolition of a new church building in the remote Chittagong Hill Tracts region. About 200 Catholics and Protestants formed a human chain and held a silent protest on March 8 against the demolition of the Seventh-day Adventist Church building. A group of about 10 persons […]

Five Christian Villages Extinct: Survivor tells the story

Five Christian villages in rural Bangladesh are virtually extinct now owing to persecution by Muslims. Some 400 Christians once lived in five villages near Dhaka’s Nawabgonj area and were spi-ritually tended by the Hasnabad Catholic parish of Dhaka. But now only one Christian woman remains living. Virgin Margarat Gomes, a former schoolteacher, is now the […]