Some Catholic leaders in Uttar Pradesh have welcomed a government drive to remove loud speakers from religious places in the northern Indian state. “If the government is doing it in a non-partisan way and without religious prejudices, it is to be appreciated,” says...
People in Karnataka began from May 9 to get up at 5 am to pray, sing or curse. Muslims in the southern Indian state start their day with Azaan announced through loud-speakers fit atop mosques. Hindus, on the hand, use the public address system to counter the Muslim...
The demand for a Dalit Rite in the Catholic Church in India was reiterated at a conference of theologians, biblical scholars and canon law experts from the community. Caste is a stark reality and caste-based discrimination is rampant in the Catholic Church’s...
Thousands of Catholics have attended the Delhi archdiocesan consultation meetings to prepare for the Rome Synod that began more than six months ago. While Jesuit Father Stanislaus Alla, a theology professor, finds the process “truly historic,” Abp Anil J Couto of...
Itanagar diocese in the north-eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh May 7 ordained its first priest of indigenous origin Bishop John Thomas of Itanagar ordained Father Roshan Bamin Peter, a member of the Apatani tribe, at Mary Immaculate Church, Hapoli, Ziro, his...
