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Indian bishop, who was forced to resign by Vatican, dies

Bishop Isidore Fernandes, who was sacked by the Vatican ten years before his term could end, died April 26 in Allahabad (now Prayagraj) in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. He was 76. Bishop Fernandes was forced to resign by the Vatican for ordaining the first bishop of a homegrown charismatic community that is […]

Farming nuns promote eco-centric spirituality, organic farming

Valerie Gastager, a Ger-man student, was excited to eat what she grew at the farm of a Catholic convent in southern India. “We harvested and ate the vegetables we grew,” Gastager said February 28 as she showed Global Sisters Report the kit-chen garden in the courtyard of the Helpers of Mount Rosary congregation at Alangar […]

Missionaries’ passion and commitment help Church survive crises

Apostolic Carmel Sister Maria Nirmalini was elected the president of the Conference of Religious India, the national body of major superiors of India’s Catholic religious, in November 2021 and assumed office in January 2022. The 58-year-old educator also heads the women section of the conference as well as the Apostolic Carmel congregation. Nirmalini advocates empowerment […]

2 Indian pastors held for desecrating Sikh holy book

Police in a northern Indian state have arrested two pastors for allegedly desecrating the Sikh holy book.Pastors Vicky Masih and Roop Lal of the Believers Church in Golewala village in Faridkot district in Sikh-majority Punjab state were arrested on April 24 for allegedly tearing out pages from the Sri Gutka Sahib, a pocket-sized book containing […]

Indian archdiocese makes marriage concession amid court battle

A parish in an Indian arch-diocese established to serve a strictly endogamous communi-ty has taken the unprecedented step of permitting a member to marry a Catholic from another diocese. Sacred Heart Knanaya Catholic Church, Monippally, in the Archeparchy of Kotta-yam. Shijan Kaakkara via Wi-kimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0). The pastor of St. Anne’s Knanaya Catholic Church […]

Vatican court rejects appeal over Indian Church land deals

The Church’s highest judicial authority has rejected an appeal to reexamine issues surrounding land deals that provoked uproar among Indian Catholics. In a decree dated Jan. 31, the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura dismissed the appeal concerning the proposed sale of two properties and the restitution of land losses sustained by the Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly. Ernakulam-Angamaly is […]