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Opposition resistance to UCC runs against Constitution spirit

The Bharatiya Janata Party government’s predictable move to reignite the controversy over the Uniform Civil Code has invited predictable responses. Opposition leaders have flayed this move. Questioning the need for the Law Commission to take this up again, several opposition leaders have effectively positioned themselves against the UCC. Muslim organisations have gone a step further […]

Manipur archbishop: ‘Violence continues, state no longer present’

“The silence of the prime minister, the incompetence of the interior minister even after his visit to the state, and the indecisi-veness of the local government in ending the violence are worrying. The authorities cannot escape responsibility and shift blame.” In the face of violence that has now been going on continuously for a month […]

Cambodian Catholics honour martyrs killed by Khmer Rouge

More than 3,000 Catholics including bishops, priests, and laypeople in Cambodia participated in a Mass to commemorate clergy, religious, and laypeople who were martyred by the Pol Pot regime in the seventies. The event was held in Tang Kork District, Kampong Thom Province, about 100 kilometres from the capital Phnom Penh on June 17, Catholic […]

Carmelites of Mary Immaculate, a school for Nepal’s marginalized

On mission in a very poor area of western Nepal. With a big dream that is taking its first steps: that of opening a school in Dhangadhi to give a future to the children of those living in this extreme periphery at the foot of the Himalayas. This is the missionary frontier of Fr. Ajo […]

Vicar of Anatolia warns that the Christian community is at ‘great risk’ after the earthquake

The Christian community “is at great risk” and still reeling from the quake of 6 February. Amid “great desperation”, only a handful of Christians are left in places like Antakya (Antioch), the core of the devastation, this according to Bishop Paolo Bizzeti, vicar of Anatolia. In Turkey’s quake-ravaged regions, everything has to be rebuilt from […]

Report accuses former President Rajapaksa of obstructing mass grave investigations

Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is accused of tampering with police records to obstruct investigations into mass graves discovered in an area where he served as a military officer during a Marxist rebellion in 1989. The charges are contained in a report entitled ‘Mass Graves and Failed Exhumations’ publish-ed by a number of activist […]

Philippines against US request to let 50,000 Afghan refugees in the country

Some Philippine government officials and politicians are opposed to a US request to temporarily host about 50,000 Afghan refugees before they are moved to the United States. “While the proposed arrangement is humanitarian in nature, it will not involve the admission or hosting of Afghan refugees,” said the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs in a […]