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Hawaii school welcomes Indian nuns

The arrival of three Mi-ssionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians from India has answered the 22-year long prayers of the parishioners and parents of a Catholic school in Hawaii for the return of nuns to their school. On October 7 their prayers were answered. They arrived at Lihue airport to assume involvement in parish […]

Liturgy dispute: Protesting Catholics prevent apostolic administrator’s cathedral entry

The liturgy dispute in a Catholic archdiocese in Kerala took an ugly turn November 27 when its administrator was prevented from forcibly entering the cathedral church to offer Sunday Mass. Archbishop Andrews Thazhath, the administrator, came to St Mary’s Basilica Cathedral Church escorted with police to offer Mass in the synod-approved format that is being […]

Peace rally revives messages of Buddha, Kabir

Cultural activists working for peace in northern India have organized a rally on harmony and reconciliation amid hate messages and violence against Christians, Muslims, Dalits, Tribals and women. The five-day rally that covered the eastern region of Uttar Pradesh state concluded November 26, the Constitution Day, in Purvanchal Gramin Seva Samiti, the social service coordination […]

Indian court grants reprieve to interfaith couples

A top court in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has restrained the provincial government from prosecuting interfaith couples under a law that prohibits religious conversion for the purpose of marriage. A division bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in Jabalpur its interim order on Nov. 14 directed that “till further orders, respondent […]

Northeast Christian leaders decry “alarmist” conversion news

Christian leaders in north-eastern India on November 24 voiced great anxiety about “alar-mist news” being spread in co-nnection with the issue of con-version. Such “painful developments” are “nothing but an effort to malign our community which has rendered yeoman service in the field of education, health and social development to all sections in society irrespective […]

Christians in Chhattisgarh beaten up for not giving up faith

Members of eight tribal fa-milies who practice Christian faith in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh are now living in fear after people of their commu-nity thrashed them for not giving up their new faith. “We were beaten up on November 22 night with stick and slippers after for-cing into our houses,” said one of […]

Church calls for dignified burial for Filipino prisoners

Catholic bishops in the Philippines have called for the dignified burial of dead prisoners as the authorities in the country’s biggest penitentiary started burying 200 unclaimed, decomposing bodies. The authorities at the New Bilibid Prisons Cemetery in Muntinlupa City started the process of disposal of the unclaimed bodies on November 25 following an order from […]

Philippine Church slams violent land grabs from tribal people

Two Catholic dioceses in the Philippines have condemned atta-cks against ethnic tribal people who attempted to save their ancestral land from grabbing by a private corporation in the Min-danao region. The reactions from Malayba-lay diocese and Cagayan de Oro archdiocese came after guards posted by a private company alle-gedly fired shots at members of the tribal […]