As india prepares to elect a new federal government this spring, its catholic bishops have urged citizens “to vote wisely” to help the country remain a secular and democratic republic. “we urge all citizens to enroll as voters and exercise their sacred duty to vote...
An opposition member in the Meghalaya legislative assembly on February 22 sought government intervention after a Catholic nun was humiliated while traveling in a bus five days ago. Charles, a member of the Trinamool Congress, told the zero hour that the nun, who works...
The provincial government of a central Indian state has announced plans to add more teeth to its sweeping anti-conversion law, which is often used to target Christians in the country. The proposed bill by the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in...
A convent school in Mangaluru, southern India, on February 15 denied the allegations from some Hindu nationalist groups that a nun teacher had made derogatory remarks against Hindu deities. St. Gerosa High School’s denial came three days after it suspended the nun,...
A national conference on synod has called for restoring the space denied to Dalit Christians in the Church and society. The February 16-17 conference on “Synodal Church: Voice of the Marginalized in India,” studied the Dalit Empowerment Policy of the Catholic Bishops’...
