It is an open secret. There is no love lost between India’s religious minorities and the federal government led by the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). When Muslims, the largest minority that makes up 14.2 percent of the nation’s 1.4 billion people, needed a...
More than a thousand Catholics joined a rally on Feb. 5, demanding the reinstatement of a bishop in the southern Indian state of Karnataka who is facing allegations of sexual abuse and financial mismanagement. The Vatican appointed Retired Archbishop Bernard Moras of...
Sister Ambika Pillai is seated at a table while answering the children’s questions around the table, all busily creating decorations out of colored paper. Pillai, a member of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Garden, is the secretary of Navjeevan (New Life) Children’s...
The Delhi High court has declared a virginity test conducted on a Catholic nun as part of a probe into the murder case as “unconstitutional.” “The virginity test conducted on a female detainee, accused under investigation, or in custody, whether judicial or police, is...
The suicide blast at a mosque in Pakistan, claiming the lives of 101 people — mostly policemen — and injuring more than 220 on Jan. 30, has set alarm bells ringing among the country’s Christian groups. The blast in Peshawar, capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province,...
