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Eight Indian Christians hospitalized after attack by Hindu mob

Eight Christians were injured and hospitalized when Hindu radicals attacked them and accused them of religious conversion in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. More than 150 Christians were praying in a house church on March 8 in Dantewada district when the Hindus attacked them with axes, stones and wooden clubs, injuring several of them, […]

Experts express concern over India’s downgrading in freedom rating

Experts have expressed serious concerns over the downgrading of India’s status from ‘the world’s largest democracy to an ‘electoral autocracy’ and from a “Free Country” to a “Partly Free Country” in the international reports. They expressed their views in a group discussion held by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) here on the topic of the impact of […]

UN selects Indian Catholic to represent Asia’s indigenous languages

United Nations has nominated a Catholic activist and educationist from the eastern Indian Jharkhand state as the indigenous languages’ representative for Asia. Anabel Benjamin Bara was selected on March 19 from Asia by UNESCO for the Global Task Force of International Decades of Indigenous Languages (IDIL) 2022-2032. The appointment letter signed by Xing Qu, UN […]

Denial of bail to Stan Swamy evokes criticism, anguish

The denial of bail to Father Stan Swamy continues to evoke condem-nation even as the court claimed it has found evidence to prove the 83-year-old Jesuit tribal activist had conspired to overthrow the government. Special judge D E Kothalikar of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) court rejected Father Swamy’s bail plea on March 22 but […]

Priest dies after fall from seminary terrace

A Catholic priest died March 26 after falling from the terrace of a major seminary near Chennai where he was teaching for the past several years. According to a message from Monsignor L John Robert, administrator of Vellore diocese, Father Velanganni Vinothraj died because of a fall from the terrace of Sacred Heart Seminary at […]

India’s Christian-dominated states feel the dead hand of corruption

Life in India’s Christian-majority northeastern states is often full of individual idio-syncrasies — and the focus keeps shifting between the pro-tagonists, particularly when politics seeks shelter under the shadow of church communities. Former Nagaland chief minister Vamuzo (he uses only one name) has said the Church in his Christian-majority state “is often like the air […]

Nun accused of conversion granted anticipatory bail

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on March 16 granted anticipatory bail to a Catholic nun accused of violating the central Indian state’s anti-conversion law. Sister Bhagya, a member of the Sisters of the Destitute, was asked to furnish personal bond of 10,000 rupees and with one solvent surety of the same amount to avail the […]

Church rushes help as fire kills two in Arunachal Pradesh

The Catholic diocese of Miao has rushed its social service team to a village where a massive fire accident killed two persons and rendered 500 homeless. “This was the biggest fire accident I have witnessed in my life,” Sethok Thinyan, a youth leader and member of the Church team that visited the affected village, told […]