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Indian Church leaders back Amnesty’s Manipur relief camp call

Church leaders have concu-rred with a global rights group report that relief camps in Mani-pur in India’s northeast are “in dire need of support” after secta-rian strife uprooted more than 50,000 and killed over 220 people, most of them Christians. ”There is no doubt, Amnesty International has come out with the reality existing in Manipur” […]

Christian leaders ask India to repeal anti-conversion laws

A delegation of Christian leaders has urged India’s federal government to ask 11 states to repeal the sweeping anti-conversion laws, which they say target Christians. “The anti-conversion law has been weaponized to target religious minorities,” an eight-member delegation from the United Christian Forum (UCF) told federal minority affairs minister Kiren Rijiju. The delegation met the […]

Indian heads International Catholic Biblical Society

The Society of Paul superior general Father Domenico Solliman has appointed Father Jose Pottayil as the director of the Madrid-based International Catholic Biblical So-ciety that was set up a hundred years ago by Venerable James Alberione, the congregation’s founder. Father Pottayil is the first Asian and Indian to head the society known as SOBICAIN (Società […]

Jesuit heads Tamil Nadu’s Minorities Commission

The southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has appointed Jesuit Father Joe Arun as the chairperson of its 10 member Minorities Commission. A government notification on July 23 said the appointment is for 3 years. The 59-year-old Jesuit is the secretary for the higher education secretariat of Jesuit Conference of South Asia and Director of […]