The women section of the Conference of Religious of India undertook a study after media reported about widespread exploitation of Catholic women religious in the Church. The reports in L’Osservatore Romano and Matters India in 2018 spoke of nuns in menial occupations...
A human rights group working for Christians who are being persecuted because of their faith condemned the “forced conversion” of a 13-year-old girl who works as a household help in Pakistan. “Perhaps Pakistan is the only country where such crimes are happening on a...
After a year on pause, Lahore Archdiocese has announced the annual pilgrimage to the National Marian Shrine in Mariamabad village will go ahead under strict safety guidelines. The 72nd pilgrimage will be held from Sept. 10-12 under the title “Holy Mary Mother of...
Myanmar is on a watchlist of countries that have seen a recent and rapid decline in fundamental democratic freedoms. More than four months since the Feb. 1 military coup, the assault on civic space has persisted with the arrest and detention of activists and...
A voluntary organization of the Patna Jesuits on June 26 distributed Covid-19 relief kits to some 650 poor families in the capital city of Bihar. Jesuit Father Juno Sebastian, director of Manthan (Churning), said that this time they focused mostly the hamlets of...
