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India’s northeast Catholics look to French missioners’ canonization

Bishop George Palliparambil of Miao diocese in Arunachal Pradesh is the postulator of the cause for the beatification of the Paris Mission Society missionaries Nicolas Michaël Krick and Augustin-Étienne Bourry, who are inseparable from the history of evangelization in the region, one of the most remote areas in north-eastern India. The French missionaries were murdered […]

Stop targeting Church institutions, bishops urge governments

The Catholic bishops in India have urged the federal and Madhya Pradesh governments to stop “the age old bogey of conversion” to repeatedly tarnish “the dedicated services” of its people. “The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) is deeply saddened at the recent happenings in the state of Madhya Pradesh and particularly in the Catholic […]

Disturbing national issues worry Catholic religious in northeast

A peace and solidarity pro-gram in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya has addressed pressing national issues while promoting unity, justice, and peace. “From the targeted violence against Christians and tribals in Manipur to the relentless attacks on Church personnel and institutions and the disturbing normalization of hate speeches, our country is witnessing a wave […]

Indian pastors, woman denied bail, continue in jail

A court in a central Indian state has rejected the bail applications of two protestant pastors and a woman arrested on charges of alleged religious conversion. The district court in Satna, Ma-dhya Pradesh state, rejected the bail applications of pastors Roshan Faster, Mayaram Ningwal, and Aarti Saket on June 6.The accused will remain in police […]

Indian Catholic bishop, nun seek bail in ‘conversion’ case

A Catholic bishop and a nun named in a case under the stringent anti-conversion law have filed anticipatory bail applications against their possible arrest in a central Indian state. Bishop Gerald Almeida of Jabalpur and Sister Liji Joseph, in charge of Asha Kiran (ray of hope) Children’s Care Institute, a home for destitute children filed […]

Japanese Protestant daughter introduces mother to Catholic Church

Kazuko Nabeshima was born 70 years ago in Nomozaki at the southern tip of the Nagasaki Peninsula, a town now part of Nagasaki City. But was “never religious” despite her peninsula housing many churches. She left Nagasaki after graduating from school to take up a job and lived for more than 30 years without any […]

Bible students study China’s Communist Party Congress

Students at a Bible school in China attended a study session on last year’s 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and were urged to pay respect to three Christian figures who became associates of the party, says a report. The Shaanxi Bible School in north-western Shaanxi province, managed by the state-sanctioned Protestant […]

Poverty, hunger drive suicides in North Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered local authorities to take suicide prevention measures after various media re-ports revealed families committed suicide due to hunger and poverty. Kim officially defined suicide as an “act of treason against socialism” and issued a confidential suicide prevention order during emergency meetings of the party leaders all over […]