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Salesian priest wins 12th international human rights award‍

A Salesian priest was conferred with 12th International Human Rights Award for his contribution to peace with media reforms by the Delhi-based All India Council of Human Rights Council. Father C.M. Paul of the Calcutta Salesian province, currently working as Vice Principal at Salesian College, Siliguri in West Bengal, was presented with the award on […]

Indian Church mourns death of renowned Jesuit thinker

The Church in India has mourned the death of Jesuit Father Abraham Adappur, a renowned thinker and writer who drafted Pope Paul VI’s address to India. Father Adappur died De-cember 3, the feast of St Francis Xavier, at Christ Hall, the head-quarters of the Jesuits’ Kerala province in Kozhikode, a major town in the southern […]

Kerala High Court orders police protection for Vatican-appointed administrator

The Kerala High Court has ordered the state police to provide protection to the Vatican-appointed administrator of a strife-torn archdiocese in the southern Indian state. The apex court in Kerala on December 5 ordered police protection for Archbishop Andrews Thazhath, the apostolic admini-strator of Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese in response to the prelate’s petition. The prelate’s petition […]

North Korea executes teens for distributing foreign films

Terrified residents expre-ssed grave shock as North Korean authorities publicly executed three teenagers by firing including two who alle-gedly watched and distributed South Korean movies, says a report. A third teenager was accused of murdering his stepmother, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Dec. 2 quoting witnesses. The officials in the ultra-communist pariah state have […]

Food prices compound ordinary Bangladeshis’ woes

Suman Haldar, a Catholic who runs a small grocery store in a Bangladesh village, is feeling the pinch thanks to skyrocketing prices and falling income which has led to the rationing of food in his six-member household. “I could afford chicken once a week even during the Covid pandemic, but now it’s become difficult to […]

Cast out for doing the dirty work in Pakistan

Shafiq Masih, a 45-year-old Catholic in Pakistan, stood inside a manhole, half his body submerg-ed in the dark slush of sewage. Someone asked him to look up, and the camera clicked. That photograph, published in several international publications, made him the face of sanitation workers in the Muslim-majority country. “But it only deepened my seclusion […]