The Hindu-majority Meitei community in northeast India’s restive Manipur state have called off an annual religious pilgrimage to sacred hills following an alleged threat from predominantly Christian tribals in the area, according to sources. The Meitei people scrapped...
Indian Catholic nun Eliswa Vakayil, known as a champion of women’s rights, has moved closer to sainthood after Pope Francis published a decree authorizing her and five others to be declared blessed. Francis approved the decree to beatify the 19th-century nun during an...
A Church-run college in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has denied allegations of religious conversion and discrimination against students amid protests by hardline Hindu activists. “The allegations leveled against St. Dominic Savio College in Lucknow are...
Leaders representing around 600 families, mostly Catholics, are hopeful about concluding their six-month protest to reclaim their lands after a federal minister visited their southern Indian village and promised to seek an early solution. Kiren Rijiju, federal...
Tribal villagers in central India’s Chhattisgarh state forced seven Christian families to abandon their faith, but six other families remain steadfast in their faith despite intense pressure, a local Christian leader said. Pastor Chinnam Wycliff Sagar said that the 13...
