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Church leaders discuss ways to combat human trafficking

The Commission for Migrants of the Conference of the Catholic Bishops of India on May 1 drew plans to combat the issues of forced labor and human trafficking in its Agra region comprising 10 dioceses. Some 30 delegates from these dioceses attended a workshop at Gyandeep Bhawan Jaipur, capital of Rajasthan, to celebrate the International […]

Catholic orphanage raided, priests arrested in India

An orphanage serving differently abled children for the past 150 years was raided by government agencies in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The officers of the state units of National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and Child Welfare Committee desecrated a church, beat up priests, destroyed computers and ransacked a […]

Hindu fundamentalists oppose Catholic children’s summer camp

More than a hundred Hindu activists forcefully entered a Catholic school in Chhattisgarh to oppose a summer catechetical camp held there for Catholic children. The intruders, who entered the Vishwadeep School campus around noon on May 7, alleged the program was meant to convert “Hindu” children. The school in Durg, 40 km west of Raipur, […]

75 years later, Missionaries of Charity acquire Mother Teresa’s first house

Seventy-five years after Mother Teresa launched her full-time service to the poor in a shelter in the distressed Entally neighborhood of Kolkata, the order she founded, the Missionaries of Charity, has announced that it finally secured ownership of the property. Although the young Mother Teresa arrived in Kolkata as a Sisters of Loreto missionary in […]

Manipur clashes, a grave tragedy, says Archbishop Menamparampil

Order has been restored in Manipur following a large-scale intervention by India’s military; however, the wounds caused by the recent clashes between the mainly Hindu Meiteis ethnic majority and the mostly Christian tribal communities are deep, this according to Msgr Thomas Menamparampil, Archbishop Emeritus of Guwahati, a leading Catholic figure in north-eastern India. In the […]

Attacks on Christians: Supreme Court urged to appoint monitoring agency

A Catholic archbishop and two groups have urged the Supreme Court of India to appoint an agency to monitor attacks against Christians in the country. The request came from Arch-bishop Peter Macho of Bangalore, the National Solidarity Forum and the Evangelical Fellow-ship of India, who had earlier filed a petition in the apex court alleging […]

Vatican hosts meeting with European Hindus 

About fifty-five parti-cipants representing the Christian and Hindu religious traditions in Europe gathered in Rome for a meeting on the theme “Hindus and Christians in Europe: Building together a ‘fraternity-based new humanism’”. The meeting, which was the first of its kind, took place yesterday and was organised by the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue in collaboration […]

Indian missionary serving Africa appointed bishop of Odisha’s Balasore

Pope Francis has appointed an Indian prelate serving Ethiopia in East Africa as the new bishop of Balasore diocese in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. The Vatican on May 10 announced the appointment of Monsignor Varghese Thottamkara, a member of the Congregation of the Missions. The 64-year-old prelate is currently serving as the vicar […]