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Caste culture’s rooted in amongst Bangladeshi Catholics too

Two years ago, Kanika Das was in a relationship with a boy from a rich Catholic family and they planned to get married. However, their dreams were left in tatters when the boy’s family opposed the plan saying Das belonged to a Dalit Catholic family. “When they [the boy’s family] found out my father is a cobbler and […]

Chaplains stay put in Myanmarese camps on the Thai side

Some 90,000 Myanmarese refugees live in nine camps on the Thai side of the border. At the height of displacement in the early 1990s, the camps held more than 130,000 refugees. People already in the camps have watched humanitarian groups come and go over the years, though in recent times aid workers have mostly moved […]

Blasphemy ‘wrath’ behind attack on Pakistan’s ex-PM

The never-ending nightmare of the blasphemy law in Pakistan has a new victim — former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party was shot in the right leg on Nov. 3 in the eastern city of Wazirabad in Punjab province, where he was leading a protest march against the government. […]

From a few Catholics to a multitude in Bahrain

Before Bahrain established the Gulf’s first church in the 1930s, priests would visit from Iraq to perform services for a small Catholic community. Now, its ranks swollen by foreign workers, mostly from India and the Philippines, the community is preparing to wel-come the pope, the leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics. Pope Francis’s visit […]

Sri Lankans rally to demand release of 2 protest leaders

Sri Lankan police blocked more than a thousand protesters who were attempting to march to the capital’s main railroad station on Wednesday to demand the release of two detained protest leaders and an end to a government crackdown on demonstrations against an economic crisis that has engulfed the island nation for months. The protesters, including […]

Nigeria bishop addresses the evils of Islamist extremism at interfaith summit

Before a gathering of religious leaders in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, a Catholic bishop from Nigeria gave an account of how his country had become a “cauldron of violence” at the hands of Islamist extremists. Addressing the G20 Religion Forum in Bali on Nov. 3 in advance of the Group of 20’s […]

Norbertines elect communication expert as Mananthavady province leader

The province cha pter of Manantha-vady Norbertines has elected Father Jose Murickan as its ninth provincial. The election on October 19 was presided over by Abbot General Jos Wouters. Abbot Marcus Champia from the Norbertine Abbey of Jamtara was the second official of the election. Father Murickan, former director of the National Institute of Social […]

Capuchins feared drowned in Godavari River

A Capuchin priest and a semina-rian have been feared drowned in the Godavari River in the southern Indian state of Telangana. Father Tony Simon Pulladen and seminarian Bijo Thomas Palampura-ckal were reportedly taking bath in the river on October 23 near Errayipet village near Chennur town, when the accident took place.