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Mother of renowned author Arundhati Roy passes away‍

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 activist who won the 1997 Man Booker

Priest who inspired Dalit movements in southern India dies

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 years.

Protesting Indian fishermen hit with restraining order

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 September 1 in response to a petition by Adani Vizhinjam Port and its […]

The ‘battle for the bottle’ in India’s Gujarat state

India’s apostle of peace, Mahatma Gandhi, would turn in his grave if he were to witness the “battle for the bottle” in his home province Gujarat ahead of crucial state polls later this year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bête noire and old war horse, Shankarsinh Vaghela, has once again thrown his hat in the electoral […]

Statue vandalized, parish priest’s vehicle burnt in Punjab

Some unidentified miscreants on August 31 vandalized a Marian statue kept in front of a church in Patti, an old town in the northern Indian state of Punjab. They also set ablaze the car of the parish priest. According to a message from Father Thomas Poochalil, the parish priest of Infant Jesus Catholic Church in […]

Pope Francis asks businesses to support working women: They’re ‘afraid to get pregnant’

Pope Francis is stressing the importance of accommodating pregnant women as employees — and calling on the business world to find a solution. “Please, this is a problem for working women: Study it, see how to make sure that a pregnant woman can go on, both with the child she is expecting and with her […]