Church leaders discuss ways to combat human trafficking

The Commission for Migrants of the Conference of the Catholic Bishops of India on May 1 drew plans to combat the issues of forced labor and human trafficking in its Agra region comprising 10 dioceses. Some 30 delegates from these dioceses attended a workshop at...

Catholic orphanage raided, priests arrested in India

An orphanage serving differently abled children for the past 150 years was raided by government agencies in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The officers of the state units of National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and Child Welfare...

Hindu fundamentalists oppose Catholic children’s summer camp

More than a hundred Hindu activists forcefully entered a Catholic school in Chhattisgarh to oppose a summer catechetical camp held there for Catholic children. The intruders, who entered the Vishwadeep School campus around noon on May 7, alleged the program was meant...

Manipur clashes, a grave tragedy, says Archbishop Menamparampil

Order has been restored in Manipur following a large-scale intervention by India’s military; however, the wounds caused by the recent clashes between the mainly Hindu Meiteis ethnic majority and the mostly Christian tribal communities are deep, this according to Msgr...