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Indian tycoon Adani takes over school from Catholic nuns

India’s leading industrialist, Gautam Adani, has taken over a well-known high school in western Maha-rashtra state that Carmelite nuns ran for over five decades. Adani Founda-tion, the charity arm of the billionaire with business interests from apples to aviation, took over the management of Mount Carmel Convent Senior Secondary School in Cement Nagar in Chandrapur district from the […]

Vatican Appoints Indian Youth to International Advisory Body

The Vatican has appointed Dr. Freya Francis (27), from Coimbatore, India, to the International Youth Advisory Body (IYAB). This appointment, announced on September 25, 2024, by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, represents a signi-ficant move in the Church’s efforts to embrace diverse global perspectives. Dr. Freya belongs to the Jesus Youth Move-ment will […]

Supreme Court bars controversial remarks on religious conversions

The Supreme Court has barred remarks made by the Allahabad High Court regard-ing religious conversions and their impact on the country’s demographics, deeming them inappropriate. The apex court’s September 27 decision came as it granted bail to Kailash, a Christian from Hamirpur in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The case dates back to […]

Indian Church urges state govt to allay people’s ‘eviction fears’

Church leaders have urged the communist-led government in a southern Indian state to clear doubts over the likely evi-ction of people, most of them Christians, in the eco-sensi-tive Western Ghats mountain range. The Kerala government did not take into consideration people’s concerns about the proposed declaration of areas within a kilometre of protected forest areas as eco-sensitive zones (ESZs) […]

Christians slam govt move to cut water, power in India’s Manipur

Indigenous Chri-stians in India’s strife-torn Manipur say they are worried over the state government’s move to deny power, water, and welfare schemes to “un-registered” villages in the hilly north-eastern state. Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on Oct. 8 instructed the authorities not to provide essential services like water and power and benefits of various […]

Reprieve for Indian Protestant mission amid land row

The top court in India’s Madhya Pra-desh has temporarily stopped the state government, run by a Hindu right-wing party, from taking over a piece of land from a Protestant mission.The Jabalpur bench of the state High Court on Oct. 7 allowed the mission of the Disciples of Christ Church in Damoh district, 15 days to […]

New cardinal boosts global recognition of Indian Eastern-rite church

The elevation of an Indian priest who worked in the Vatican as cardinal adds to the global recognition of the Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church, says the Church’s spokesperson. Father George Jacob Koovakad, a priest of the Kerala-based Church’s Changanacherry archdiocese, was among the 21 new cardinals named by Pope Francis on Oct. 6. They will […]

Catholic Church mourns death of Indian business leader

Indian bishops have joined the nation’s top leaders and industry captains in mourning the death of Ratan Tata, an iconic business leader, philanthropist, and visio-nary. Tata, the former chairman of Tata Group died on Oct. 9 at 86 in Mumbai, the state capital of Maharashtra. He is credited with putting the Indian conglo-merate on the […]