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Salesian priest dies of heart attack in New Delhi airport

Salesian Father Joseph Chittattukalam died of heart attack November 27 at New Delhi air-port. He was 82. Light of Truth

Rome studies miracle attributed to Venerable Agnelo

The canonization process of Venerable Agnelo D’Souza has entered a new phase after the Congregation for the Causes of Saints began to study a miracle attributed to the saintly priest from Goa. Light of Truth

India deports 3 Swedish Christians for proselytizing

Indian police are deporting three Swedish citizens who violated their visas by trying to convert people to Christianity in India’s remote northeast region, officials said Thursday. Light of Truth

India’s Latin rite bishops reelect office bearers

Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, archbishop of Goa and Daman, was re-elected president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), the national body of the country’s Latin rites bishops. The election took place during the conference’s 33rd plenary assembly held November 11-12 at St. John’s National Institute of Health Sciences in Bengaluru, southern India. […]

Archbishop, top clergy named prime accused in violence against Adani Port…

The police in Kerala have registered a case against a Catholic archbishop, his auxiliary and 48 others in connection with violence during a protest against an under construction international seaport in the southern Indian state. The police and protesters clashed at Vizhinjam police station close to the port protest site on November 27 night that […]

Odisha’s temporary teachers on strike for job regularization

Hundreds of temporary teachers are on an indefinite strike demanding regularisation of their service in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. “We were employed by the government during 2003-2004 but the government sacked us in various false cases,” says a statement from the association of Swechasevi Sikshya sahayak (SSS, Student Assistant volunteers). The association wants […]

Cardinal Gracias hails Mizoram Catholics’ core values

The Catholic Church in Mizoram on November 20 ended the celebration of the 75 years of the presence of priests in the northeastern Indian state with Cardinal Oswald Gracias hailing the Mizo society for setting an example for the rest of the country. “Your core values of solidarity, concern for the other, community feeling, decision […]

Enforcement directorate attaches Christian medical college funds for cheating

A federal agency dealing with economic offenses has attached close to 10 million rupees of movable assets of a Christian medical college in Kerala as part of its probe into a money laundering case. A November 22 statement from the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) says it has provisionally attached movable pro-perties worth 9,525,000 rupees from […]

Pope Leo calls Uruguay “a Country of Young People Who have Faith”

Mortal remains of prominent Church leaders Return to Timor-Leste