Indigenous people feel abandoned by Philippine Church

A group of some ten women stood away from everyone else in a corner of the church as Sunday Mass progressed in San Lorenzo parish, in the hilly tourist district of Loakan in the Philippines. The women belonged to the Igorot tribe in Mountain Province, a landlocked...

Be prophetic communicators, Catholic journalists told

The bounden duty of the media to become prophetic communicators was stressed at a national convention of journalists in Chennai, southern India. “As the members of the Fourth Estate and proud citizens of India, we cannot afford to turn a blind eye to the unsavoury...

Salesian Sisters dedicate shrine to mark centenary

The Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco of Guwahati province has launched the centenary celebration of their arrival in northeastern India with a shrine dedicated to St. Mary Domnica Mazzarello, their co-founder at St. Mary’s Convent in Guwahati, Assam. Leading the December...

Indian bishop wins reprieve from likely arrest

An Indian court has granted anticipatory bail to Bishop Thomas Dabre of Pune, averting his likely arrest as a co-accused in a case of alleged clergy sexual abuse. Bishop Dabre was named by Pune city police in the western Indian state of Maharashtra in a case under...