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Vizhinjam protests: Catholic priest denies foreign aid allegation‍

A Catholic priest has vowed to quit priesthood and face any punishment if an allegation is proved that a Church-led protest against seaport project has received foreign fund to destabilize the country. “Our hands are clean and ready to face any probe,” says Father Theodacious D’Cruz, one of the conveners of the fishermen’s protest against […]

Cardinal Alencherry asked to appear in person in court

The Kerala High Court has asked Cardinal George Alencherry, head of the Catholic Church in the southern Indian state, to appear before a court in connection with cases related to a land sale. The top court in Kerala November 9 dismissed the cardinal’s plea seeking exemption from personal appearance before the Judicial First Class Magistrate […]

“Union Govt. Cites ‘Foreign Contributions’ For Keeping Out Dalit Christians, Muslims Out of SC List”

An affidavit filed by the Union govern-ment with the Supreme Court claims Islam and Christianity’s allegedly “foreign” contri-butions as justification for keeping Dalit Muslims and Dalit Christians out of the Scheduled Castes list, The Hindu has report-ed. The report notes that the affidavit “contra-dicts itself at several junctures,” and that there is “a lack of […]

Caste culture’s rooted in amongst Bangladeshi Catholics too

Two years ago, Kanika Das was in a relationship with a boy from a rich Catholic family and they planned to get married. However, their dreams were left in tatters when the boy’s family opposed the plan saying Das belonged to a Dalit Catholic family. “When they [the boy’s family] found out my father is a cobbler and […]

Chaplains stay put in Myanmarese camps on the Thai side

Some 90,000 Myanmarese refugees live in nine camps on the Thai side of the border. At the height of displacement in the early 1990s, the camps held more than 130,000 refugees. People already in the camps have watched humanitarian groups come and go over the years, though in recent times aid workers have mostly moved […]

Blasphemy ‘wrath’ behind attack on Pakistan’s ex-PM

The never-ending nightmare of the blasphemy law in Pakistan has a new victim — former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party was shot in the right leg on Nov. 3 in the eastern city of Wazirabad in Punjab province, where he was leading a protest march against the government. […]