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Priest commits suicide after police complaint for protesting anti-Christian violence

A Catholic priest who faced a police complaint for a social media post protesting recent anti-Christian violence in the Indian state of Manipur committed suicide on Sept. 13, with his body found hanging from a tree in a cemetery. A spokesman for the Diocese of Sagar in India announced the death of Father Anil Francis […]

Indian Christians seek equal treatment for their schools

Christians in a southern Indian state have urged the provincial government to end discriminatory education policies that adversely impact Christian-run schools receiving state funds. The Christian community runs around 6,000 of the estimated 8,403 schools in Tamil Nadu that receive government aid, and hence are referred to as “aided schools.” “Most of them are in […]

Indian Catholic school targeted by hardline Hindu mob

Hardline Hindu activists stormed a Christian school in central India, accusing it of disrespecting a Hindu god and demanding a police probe against its nun-principal. The move “seems to be part of a well-orchestrated conspiracy to target our school,” said Sister Sarita Joseph, principal of the St Mary’s Convent School at Deori in Madhya Pradesh state’s Sagar district. […]

Dynamics of obedience, dissent within Chinese society

Since the commencement of the treated radioactive water release from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea in late August, an unsettling surge of over 400,000 nuisance calls has flooded the Japanese embassy in Beijing. This disturbing influx of harassing calls appears to be fuelled by an escalating anti-Japan sentiment in China, whether born […]

Iraq, Card. Sako: if Rome remains silent the future of Iraqi Christians at risk

Concerned for the future of Christians who today face a “different threat”, but one that is no “less serious” than the Islamic State. Embittered by the Holy See’s silence in the face of the mystifications of Rayan the Chaldean, the leader of a local militia calling itself Christian (but in the pay of Tehran) who […]

Tashkent: war on beards and veils against Islamic radicalism

The authorities of Uzbekistan are intensifying the campaign to combat excessively explicit manifestations of the Muslim religion in public places and in social life. As Radio Ozodlik illustrates, those who profess Islam are forced to cut their beards, and women are prevented from wearing the khidžab, the local version of the Islamic veil. There is […]

Two bishops from mainland China at the Synod in the Vatican

Like in 2018, two bishops from mainland China will be present at the Synod of Bishops set to open on 4 October at the Vatican, the Secretariat of the Synod announced at a briefing that saw the release of the latest list of participants. “The local Church, in agreement with the authorities, put forward two […]

Bangladesh promises minority panel ahead of national poll

The Bangladesh government has agreed to establish a commission to protect the interests of its religious minorities – Buddhists, Christians and Hindus – two days after the country’s largest forum of religious minorities launched a hunger strike. Officials announced the government’s decision to establish a minority commission by October, on Sept. 23, two days after the Bangladesh Hindu […]