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Cardinal Gracias hails Mizoram Catholics’ core values

The Catholic Church in Mizoram on November 20 ended the celebration of the 75 years of the presence of priests in the northeastern Indian state with Cardinal Oswald Gracias hailing the Mizo society for setting an example for the rest of the country. “Your core values of solidarity, concern for the other, community feeling, decision […]

Enforcement directorate attaches Christian medical college funds for cheating

A federal agency dealing with economic offenses has attached close to 10 million rupees of movable assets of a Christian medical college in Kerala as part of its probe into a money laundering case. A November 22 statement from the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) says it has provisionally attached movable pro-perties worth 9,525,000 rupees from […]

Hawaii school welcomes Indian nuns

The arrival of three Mi-ssionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians from India has answered the 22-year long prayers of the parishioners and parents of a Catholic school in Hawaii for the return of nuns to their school. On October 7 their prayers were answered. They arrived at Lihue airport to assume involvement in parish […]

Liturgy dispute: Protesting Catholics prevent apostolic administrator’s cathedral entry

The liturgy dispute in a Catholic archdiocese in Kerala took an ugly turn November 27 when its administrator was prevented from forcibly entering the cathedral church to offer Sunday Mass. Archbishop Andrews Thazhath, the administrator, came to St Mary’s Basilica Cathedral Church escorted with police to offer Mass in the synod-approved format that is being […]

Peace rally revives messages of Buddha, Kabir

Cultural activists working for peace in northern India have organized a rally on harmony and reconciliation amid hate messages and violence against Christians, Muslims, Dalits, Tribals and women. The five-day rally that covered the eastern region of Uttar Pradesh state concluded November 26, the Constitution Day, in Purvanchal Gramin Seva Samiti, the social service coordination […]

Indian court grants reprieve to interfaith couples

A top court in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has restrained the provincial government from prosecuting interfaith couples under a law that prohibits religious conversion for the purpose of marriage. A division bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in Jabalpur its interim order on Nov. 14 directed that “till further orders, respondent […]

Northeast Christian leaders decry “alarmist” conversion news

Christian leaders in north-eastern India on November 24 voiced great anxiety about “alar-mist news” being spread in co-nnection with the issue of con-version. Such “painful developments” are “nothing but an effort to malign our community which has rendered yeoman service in the field of education, health and social development to all sections in society irrespective […]

Christians in Chhattisgarh beaten up for not giving up faith

Members of eight tribal fa-milies who practice Christian faith in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh are now living in fear after people of their commu-nity thrashed them for not giving up their new faith. “We were beaten up on November 22 night with stick and slippers after for-cing into our houses,” said one of […]