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India’s bishops: ‘Attacks on Christians now common’

A body bringing together India’s Latin Catholic, Syro-Malabar, and Syro-Malankara bishops deplored Wednesday increasing attacks on the country’s Christian minority. In a six-page statement issued Feb. 7, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) ex-pressed alarm at rising intolerance in Indian society and political life. It said: “Attacks on Christians continue to increase in different […]

Minorities slam Indian state’s new uniform civil code

Christian and Muslim leaders have disapproved of the passing of a polarising and contentious uniform civil code by a pro-Hindu government in a northern Indian state. The Uniform Civil Code Bill was passed after two days of debate on Feb. 7 by the Uttarakhand state assembly through a voice vote amidst chanting of ‘Jai Sri […]

Amid arrests of Indian priests and nun, bishop calls for ‘storming of heaven’

After the recent arrests of priests and a nun in India on charges that they violated the Hindu-majority country’s “anti-conversion” laws, a Catholic bishop has sent out an appeal “to storm heaven with prayers.” Bishop Ignatius D’Souza of Bareilly in the Archdiocese of Agra issued a “prayer request” on social media Feb. 7. “I request […]

Karnataka’s first Syro-Malabar diocese celebrates silver jubilee

Option for the poor and the marginalized is the only mission of the Syro-Malabar Church in India, asserted Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil while inaugurating the silver jubilee celebration of Belthangady diocese in Karnataka. Belthangady is the first Syro-Malabar diocese in the southern Indian state, created in 1999, that caters to the migrated Catholics from Kerala. […]

Indian dioceses to educate members on AI, digital revolution

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, the first episcopal body in the world to study Artificial Intelligence (AI) seriously, has asked the country’s 174 dioceses to educate their more than 20 million members to responsibly use digital tools.

School girl dies by suicide, nun sent to jail

A Catholic nun has been remanded in judicial custody in connection with the death by suicide of a school girl in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. A court in Ambikapur, a major city in Sarguja district, on February 7 remanded Carmelite Sister Mercy to jail after police charged her with abetting the suicide of […]

Indian bishops review Rome synod, Manipur, challenges facing Christians

The second day of the General Body Meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) on February 1 saw the participants the review the outcome of the Rome Synod on Synodality, Manipur crisis and situation of Christians across the country. Cardinal Oswald Gracias, who played a pivotal role in the Synod in Rome in […]

Religious freedom at stake in India, Archbishop Thazhath

The Church in India is facing unprecedented situation in the current socio-political scenario that threatens religious free-dom, says Archbishop Andrews Thazhath of Trichur, who was re-elected the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) for another two-year term. “The religious freedom and justice guaranteed by the Con-stitution of India are at stake, and […]