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Catholic leaders want review of Muslims’ land claim in Kerala

Catholic leaders have urged the Kerala government to review a state panel’s report favouring a Muslim charity’s claim over a piece of land, which threatens to evict some 600 families, most of them Catholics. Archbishop Joseph Kalathiparambil of Verapoly has urged the state government to review the Justice M. A. Nissar commission report. In an […]

Fresh violence in India’s Manipur amid peace talks

Peace talks in India’s strife-torn Manipur state have suffered a setback after fresh violence broke out when unknown gunmen attacked a police station and set on fire five houses. The attackers opened fire with highly sophisticated weapons at the Borobekera police station in Jiribam district in the early hours of Oct. 19, local officials said. […]

Indian Catholic religious forum to fight clericalism

A Catholic religious forum has vowed to fight clericalism in the Church by promoting lay leadership. “Clericalism is a serious issue and we have to fight it,” said Father Anand Mathew, the newly elected national convener of the Forum of Religious for Justice and Peace, a body of progressive religious priests, brothers, and nuns in […]

India’s Eastern Church head named in Vatican panel

The India-based Syro-Malabar Church has welcomed the appointment of its head, Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil, to a ten-member special Vatican committee on Eastern rite Churches. The appointment made by Pope Francis “is a major recognition to the Syro-Malabar Church,” said Father Antony Vadakkekara, spokes-person of the southern Kerala-headquartered Church. Thattil was “appointed a few days […]

Court cases swell as rivalry deepens in Indian Orthodox Church

The rivalry within the Orie-ntal Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch in India has deepened with its two factions and the go-vernment in the southern Kerala state approaching India’s Supre-me Court for justice over a linge-ring property dispute. A faction of the Damascus-based Church, called Jacobite Church in Kerala, appealed to the top court to “set […]

Indian Catholics mourn death of father of liberation theology

Church leaders, theologians and grassroots workers in India have mourned the death of the father of the Liberation Theology who forced Christians to recognize the poor as agents and partners and not objects of charity. Dominican Father Gustavo Gutiérrez died October 22 in Lima, capital of Peru, his native city. The “prophet of the poor” […]

Indian Christians protest over persecution

Some 3,000 Christians from various denominations have demonstrated near the Indian parliament, expressing concern over rising incidents of persecution against their community across the country. The Delhi-National Capital Region Christian Fellowship organized the demonstration on Oct. 26 at the Jantar Mantar – an area near parliament allotted for public rallies and protests in New Delhi. […]

The remains of one of the oldest churches in the world found in the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Armenia

A group of scholars recently announced the discovery of the remains of a fourth-century church in Artaxata, the ancient capital of the kingdom of Armenia. For experts, the building represents one of the oldest places of worship in the world and the oldest in the area where the kingdom once ruled, which is also the […]