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Madhya Pradesh police probe alleged religious conversion‍

Police in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have initiated a preli-minary probe into a woman’s allegation that she was paid to convert Christianity. The move came on an order from the National Commission for Women (NCW), a federal statutory body empowered to protect the rights of women in India. The NCW order came […]

Rome studies miracle attributed to Venerable Agnelo

The canonization process of Venerable Agnelo D’Souza has entered a new phase after the Congregation for the Causes of Saints began to study a miracle attributed to the saintly priest from Goa.

India deports 3 Swedish Christians for proselytizing

Indian police are deporting three Swedish citizens who violated their visas by trying to convert people to Christianity in India’s remote northeast region, officials said Thursday.

India’s Latin rite bishops reelect office bearers

Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, archbishop of Goa and Daman, was re-elected president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), the national body of the country’s Latin rites bishops. The election took place during the conference’s 33rd plenary assembly held November 11-12 at St. John’s National Institute of Health Sciences in Bengaluru, southern India.

Archbishop, top clergy named prime accused in violence against Adani Port…

The police in Kerala have registered a case against a Catholic archbishop, his auxiliary and 48 others in connection with violence during a protest against an under construction international seaport in the southern Indian state. The police and protesters clashed at Vizhinjam police station close to the port protest site on November 27 night that […]

Odisha’s temporary teachers on strike for job regularization

Hundreds of temporary teachers are on an indefinite strike demanding regularisation of their service in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. “We were employed by the government during 2003-2004 but the government sacked us in various false cases,” says a statement from the association of Swechasevi Sikshya sahayak (SSS, Student Assistant volunteers). The association wants […]