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Pope’s comments on gay civil union misinterpreted: Gracias

Pope’s Francis’ recent comments on gay civil union are misunderstood and misinter-preted, says Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the head of the Catholic Church in India and one of the seven advisers of the pontiff. “There is no change in the Church doctrine at all. The Holy Father’s comments are in full consonance with what he has […]

Asian bishops stand in solidarity with arrested Jesuit

The Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) has said it stands in solidarity with Indian Jesuit priest Father Stan Swamy and all who support the rights of indigenous people. “It is with great shock and agony the FABC heard of the arrest of the 83-year-old Father Swamy and his incarceration and we are surprised at the charges brought […]

Indian Christians pardon cross desecration amid political suspicions

Catholics in a southern Indian diocese have pardoned vandals who desecrated a Christian cross, but some suspect the divisive move aimed to create religious discord ahead of state elections in Kerala next year. The incident, the second of its type in a month, took place on Oct. 24 in Thamarassery Diocese, where five young men […]

India’s BJP begins targeting minority schools

In India’s Assam State hundreds of Muslim cleric-run schools, popularly called Madrasas, now face an existential crisis. Assam’s Minister for Education Himanta Biswa Sarma has announced from November onward, the government in the north-eastern state will stop financing the Madrasas. “Teaching Quran cannot happen at the cost of government money. If we have to do […]

Christian shot dead inside Indian church as persecution intensifies

A Christian man was shot dead and three people were injured when assailants entered a Pentecostal Church and opened fire indiscriminately in India’s Punjab State. Police arrested three persons connected with the attack and are searching for four others who escaped, Christian leaders told. The attack happened as Christians were leaving the church after a […]

Lack of political will keeps India hungry

India, a land of abundance and enduring democracy, has slipped below neighbour Bangladesh in the poverty index and will have to work hard to play the big brother role in South Asia. More than seven decades after their country escaped its British colonial legacy, Indians are relatively worse off than their counterparts in Bangladesh, Myanmar […]

Priests release book on Church financial administrative culture

Ten diocesan priests from Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry have released a book on the Church financial administrative culture. “It was a soul searching process while we prepared the book Akkarai (concern) 2020,” Father Devasagayaraj M Zackarias, one of the authors and a former national secretary of the Indian bishops’ office for Scheduled Castes and Backward […]

Indian appointed to Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue

Pope Francis has appointed Divine Word Father Sebastian Maria Michael, a noted sociologist and writer, as a consulter of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue. Father Michael is the director of the Commission for Interreligious Dialogue of the Arch-diocese of Bombay. He is a professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, and […]