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Indian nuns from Missionaries of Charity stay back in Ukraine

The two Missionaries of Charity (MC) nuns from India working in war-torn Ukraine have decided to stay back to serve the people amid the Russian army advancing to invade the country. Sisters Rosela Nuthangi and Ann Frida from India’s Mizoram, a Christian-dominated state in India’s northeast, have expressed their “decision to stay on in Ukraine, […]

Yet another Indian state proposes anti-conversion law

The northern state of Haryana became the 11th Indian state to consider enacting a law against religious conversions amid protests by opposition members who called it “divisive politics.” The pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government introduced the Haryana Prevention of Unlawful Conversion of Religious Bill, 2022, in the legislative assembly on March 4. Raghuvir Singh […]

Nuns help stranded foreign students in Ukraine

An Indian Catholic nun and her associates are working round-the-clock to help stranded students and others fleeing war-torn Ukraine. “God is using me to save people from death in Ukraine,” said Sister Ligi Payyappilly, the 48-year-old superior of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Saint-Marc in Ukraine. Payyappilly, who is Indian, and 17 sisters of […]

JAMSHEDPUR JESUIT PROVINVCE’S – PLATINUM JUBILEE

On Saturday, 12th March, 2022, the Jamshedpur Province JESUIT family members gathered together to thank the Almighty God for the numerous blessings received by the Province and for guiding the Province over these seventy five years- 1947 to 2022. The concelebrating of the Holy Eucharist was led by His Excellency Most Reverend Felix Toppo, S.J, […]

Cardinal Cacciavillan, former nuncio to India, dies at 95

Italian Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan, a former papal nuncio to India who delicately handled the rivalry between the three rites in the country, died on March 5 at the age of 95. The long-time Vatican diplomat was also a nuncio to the United States and headed the Vatican investment office. He served in Washington as nuncio […]

Indian police slow to act in pastor assault case

Police in India’s national capital New Delhi took four days to file an offense against unknown attackers of a tribal Christian pastor who was manhandled and forced to chant a slogan hailing Hindu gods. Pastor Kelom Tete was attacked by a mob in South Delhi’s Fatehpuri Berri area on Feb. 25. He was accused of […]

BIBLE QUIZ IN TELUGU  RELEASED 

“Ignorance of the Bible is  ignorance   of  Christ!’  (Saint Jerome). The book BIBLE QUIZ (Telugu edition) is  an  extremely useful means in banishing this ignorance and imparting true knowledge of the entire Bible to our young generation in the twin States of Andhra Pradesh and Telengana.” said Most Rev. Thelagathotti Raja Rao, Bishop of […]

Did a faulty pronoun really cancel Catholics’ baptisms, marriages, confessions?

The Rev. Andres Arango for decades said “We baptize you in the name of the …” instead of “I baptize you in the name of …” After diocesan officials found that out, they said last month that people who Arango baptized aren’t technically Catholic. That means they weren’t eligible, from a Catholic point of view, […]