A project run by the Catholic Church in western India’s Goa state, which supports vulnerable youth and marginalized women in becoming self-reliant, has won the 2025 “Francis of Assisi and Carlo Acutis, for an Economy of Fraternity” international award. Project HOPE...
A non-governmental organization based in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, has opened a sustainable livelihood center for transgender individuals. The Nee Thodu Society for Transgender Persons operates under the leadership of Sister Amitha Polimetla, its founder...
Archbishop John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar has blessed a church built at the site where a Protestant Christian was burnt alive during the 2008 anti-Christian violence. “The perpetrators of violence had planned to eliminate Christians from this region, but they have...
An unsettling calm has returned along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir following the announcement of a truce on May 10 between India and Pakistan. The agreement, which called for an “immediate and full cessation of hostilities,” came after a week of...
The Vatican has approved the appearance of Christ’s face on a Sacred Host during Mass in a Kerala church 12 years ago as a Eucharistic miracle. Abp Joseph Pamplany of Tellicherry on May 9 said the apo-stolic nuncio to India had relayed the Vatican recognition to the...
