India’s federal agency responsible for protecting the interests of religious minorities has sought details about the rising anti-Christian attacks in eastern Odisha state, following the latest incident where a Hindu mob attacked and injured 30 Christians. The National...
A call to protect Indian activists from state repression was made on the death anniversary of Father Stan Swamy, an 84-year-old Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist who died as an undertrial five years ago. Political leaders from the ruling alliance in the...
Mar Aprem Metropolitan, who had led the Assyrian Church of the East in India for five decades, died on July 7 following a brief hospitalization for age-related ailments in Thrissur, Kerala. He was 85. The metropolitan was born as George Mookken on June 13, 1940, in...
A refusal to compromise by Hindu-majority Meitei and pre-dominantly Christian tribal groups have dampened hopes of esta-blishing a lasting peace in India’s sectarian conflict-torn Manipur state, Christian leaders say. The latest round of talks between Federal Home...
A major seminary in the western Indian state of Goa has made its 21 theology students work in farms so that they learn better what is taught in classes. The students of the second, third- and fourth-year theology classes of the Pilar Theological Institute spent the...
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