In a significant step to promote the role of women in Church leader-ship, the Conference of Catholic Bi-shops of India (CCBI) has appointed two women religious to key national positions. Sr Hilda Diago Rodrigues, MMSB, aged 49, has been named the new Coordinator of...
Prof. Sanjose A. Thomas has receiv-ed the First Will Durant Award Inter-national from the Indo-American Phi-losophical Society. He is the head of the Sociology De-partment at SH College, Thevara. The award is based on the excellence of social science studies conducted...
A Catholic bishop has condemned the harassment of staff from a Church-run school, including a priest and two nuns, while they were on a picnic, by alleged Hindu activists in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. “The men stopped us on spotting the nuns and some...
A Christian-majority tribal group in India’s Manipur state has reiterated its demand for a separate administrative area as it marked the second anniver-sary of the outbreak of ethnic violence between them and the Hindu-majority Meitei people. Kuki-Zo communities...
An Indian court has de-nied Christians of Dalit origin legal protections meant for lower caste people, saying a person who converted to Chri-stianity cannot claim to be a member of a lower caste group. The Andhra Pradesh High Court, the highest court in the southern...
