Mary Roy, an educator and a women’s rights activist, died September 1 after a brief ill-ness in Kottayam, a town in the southern Indian state of Kerala. She was 89. She was survived by two children, son Lalit Roy and daughter Arundhati Roy, renowned writer and...
A powerful citizen’s movement in Varanasi has come to the streets demanding justice to Bilkis Bano, a rape survivor of the 2002 communal riots in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The Sajha Sanskriti Manch (SSM, United Forum for Cultural Diversity), network of...
At an event marking Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav – 75 years of India’s in-dependence – and Literacy Day, Church Art Kolkata honoured four clergy men for outstanding contribution to society along with several other eminent citizens. The program was held at Indian Council...
Father P Antonisamy, who was an inspiration to scores of Dalit priests, religious and lay faithful, died on Sept. 6 in Pondicherry. He was 82. He was a resident of Emmaus house in Pondicherry, a house of the retired clergy of the Archdiocese, for the past five...
An Indian court has issued a re-straining order against Catholic fisher-men protesting against a multi-billion dollar seaport in the southern Indian state of Kerala and ordered the stepping up of security at the project site. The Kerala High Court issued the order on...
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