Christians in India have welcomed a recent court order saying interfaith marriages need not wait for the nod from authorities as required under the new anti-conversion law in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Allahabad High Court directed that the marriages of 17...
The Indian Catholic Forum, a collective of Catho-lics in the country, plans to meet next year to seek the Church’s reform and renewal. The February 5-6, 2022, program in Bengaluru, known as the Vatican of India, will stress sharing, praying, listening and dialoguing....
Catholics in the eastern Indian state of Odisha are celebrating the ordination of a priest who was a victim of India’s worst anti-Christian violence. Fr Vikash Nayak, 29, who hails from Tiangia village in Kandhamal district, was ordained on November 6 by Archbishop...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has added Velankanni Church in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to his govern-ment’s promised free pilgrimage scheme for senior citizens. “We were getting requests from our Christian brothers and sisters to include some of...
The provincial government in the western Indian state of Gujarat was compelled to roll back a ban on serving non-vegetarian food by street vendors after the poultry industry mostly run by Hindus objected to it. The municipal authorities of four major cities...
