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Church arson reported in India’s strife-torn Manipur state‍

A more than five decades old Catholic Church, presby-tery, and boarding school were burned down, while a convent was taken over by suspected outlaws in riot-hit Manipur state in northeastern India at the weekend, Church officials said. The fresh wave of violence erupted on June 4 as the federal government appointed a three-member judicial commission […]

Hindu radicals threaten to close two Delhi archdiocesan churches

Some rightwing Hindu groups have threatened to close two churches of the archdiocese of Delhi that covers the national capital and parts of Haryana state. The latest incident happened June 4 at St Joseph Vaz Catholic Mission Church, Kherki Daula in Gurugram (Gurgaon) district, Shashi Dharan, the archdiocesan public relations officer, told Matters India. Just […]

Young nun, mother granted bail after weeklong incarceration

A newly professed nun, who was jailed along with four others for alleged con-version charges, were on June 13 granted bail by a court in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Sister Vibha Kerketta was arrested June 6 and jailed the next day along with her mother and three others after her family organized a […]

North-Eastern India’s oldest church caught in factional feud

The oldest church in northeastern India has been entangled in a factional feud for more than eight months. On June 4, the Christ Church in Guwahati, the commercial capital of Assam state, witnessed unruly scenes when one group shut the doors obstructing another group from the church building. Video clips circulated on social media showed […]

Catholic bishop airs community concerns in north India

A bishop in India’s national capital New Delhi has appealed for the safety and security of the Christian com-munity and its places of worship after two incidents of attacks on Catholic priests in the northern state of Haryana. The June 5 letter referred to two separate incidents. On June 4, Father Joseph Amalraj was manhandled by a mob […]

Cardinal Alencherry decries Christian persecution in Manipur

The special synod meeting of the Syro-Malabar Church began June 12 with Cardinal George Alencherry bemoaning the persecution of Christians in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. The synod is being held at the behest of the Vatican at Mount St. Thomas, the Syro-Malabar Church’s headquarters in Kakkanad, a Kochi suburb.