Pakistan’s National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has called on President Arif Alvi to approve a draft bill for empowerment of the commission formed by the federal cabinet last year. The recommendations, shared in a Sept. 7 meeting at the presidential house, include...
A prominent Catholic Bishop in Kerala claimed that young men and women, belonging to the Christian community and other non-Muslim faiths, were being lured and targeted through means such as ‘love jihad’ and ‘narcotic jihad’ in the state. Addressing the laity on the...
Four Missionaries of Charity nuns and two Indian Jesuit priests stranded in trouble-torn Afghanistan after the Taliban took control have been moved to safety. Missionaries of Charity, a religious order of women founded by St. Mother Teresa of Kolkata, has thanked...
A court in Karnataka, south-ern India, has spared a Catholic Bishop from facing police inquiry into a land dispute. The Sessions Court in Chik-magalur’s September 1 order observed the accusation against Bishop Thomasappa Anthony Swamy of Chikmagalur and a priest was...
The liturgical dispute in India’s Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Church has deepened after a section of priests opted not to follow a synod decision to have a uniform liturgical celebration in all 35 dioceses. Some 300 priests of Ernakulum-Angamaly Archdiocese, the seat of...
