The Church has welcomed a decision by the communist-led government in India’s southern Kerala state to drop charges against an 88-year-old Catholic bishop and 23 others for entering a restricted forest during a march demanding the reopening of a blocked public road....
The government in eastern India’s Odisha state has released a man serving a life term for the murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons, reportedly considering his “good conduct” in jail. The government, led by the Hindu-leaning Bharatiya...
Catholics in a parish in Kerala in southern India have accused the state’s forest department of “terrorizing” them after officials uprooted a cross and registered charges against their priest and leaders for encroaching on forest land. James Aikkaramattam, parish...
A state court in central Indian Chhattisgarh state has issued a pre-arrest bail to a Catholic nun after police began investigating a complaint that the nun attempted to convert a Hindu student at her nursing college. The move of the Bilaspur High Court, the highest...
The Missionaries of Charity, founded by St. Mother Teresa of Kolkata, has closed their home for the destitute in Goa, western India, on April 28 amid fears that their landlords pushed them out to reclaim the land. Sister Rosario, the superior of the seven-member...
