Pope Francis has expressed deep reservations about the direction of the Catholic Church in Germany, warning that concrete steps currently being taken “threaten” to undermine unity with the universal Church. In a striking personal intervention, the pope wrote a letter...
Christians should serve others without fear or expectations in a multireligious society, says Theo-dosius Mar Thoma Metropolitan, the supreme head of the Kerala-based Mar Thoma Church. “Whatever place you are, try to do something for the betterment of people around...
An Indian Catholic priest who quit his pastoral ministry “to clean up” the Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Church remains defiant despite his diocese imposing a set of new restrictions on him, four months after he was suspended from priestly ministry. Father Thomas (Ajimon)...
In India, women are also discriminated in terms of organ donation, this according to a report published by The Times of India, based on data collected on transplants between 1995 and 2021. In particular, of the 36,640 interventions carried out in the country, about...
A group of Dalit Christians in the Purathakudi-Magizhambadi panchayat, Trichy district (Tamil Nadu), have complained about caste discrimination by non-Dalit co-religionists at the St.Francis Xavier parish church, this despite a 2015 high court order allowing them to...
