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Planned anti-conversion law in India’s Maharashtra alarms Christians

Christian leaders have expressed concerns over curbs on religious freedom after the government in India’s second-most populous Maharashtra state announced plans to enact a law to tackle alleged conversions. The reactions came after the state’s Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule told the state legislature on July 9 about the plan for introducing a stringent anti-conversion law. […]

Indian Christians demand action against hate-spewing Hindu lawmaker

About 7,000 Christians marched on the streets of India’s commercial hub Mumbai, demanding the arrest and punishment of a pro-Hindu lawmaker who recently declared huge bounties for attacking and killing pastors and missionaries. The marchers chanted slogans and displayed banners during the July 11 rally at Azad Maidan grounds in Mumbai, the capital of the […]

BREADS launches state-level “sport for change” initiative to empower youth in Kerala

BREADS Bangalore con-vened a state-level strategic meeting on July 3, 2025 to launch its pioneering “Sport for Change” initiative–an ambi-tious youth empowerment pro-gramme operating across seven locations in five districts of Kerala. Rooted in a dynamic anti-drug campaign, the initiative leverages the unifying and transformative power of sports to steer young people away from substance […]

Bishop Antonysamy is Appointed as Archbishop of Madurai

The Holy Father Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Antonysamy Savarimuthu, until now Bishop of Palayamkottai and the Chairman of the CCBI Commission for Canon Law as the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Madurai on July 5, 2025. Bishop Antony-samy Savarimuthu was born on 8 December 1960 in Vadakku Vandanam, in the District of […]

Fr Baxla: Life of quiet conviction, unwavering pastoral witness

Salesian Father Zephyrinus Baxla, a trailblazer in Adivasi cultural revival and education, died on July 7 due to kidney ailments. Father Baxla would have turned 75 in August. Father Augustine Tirkey, a companion of Father Baxla, said his confrere “was a man of quiet conviction. He never raised his voice, but his presence commanded respect,” […]

Colombo celebrates Cardinal Ranjith and promises justice for the 2019 massacres

A ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the priesthood of the Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, 77, was held on 7 July, at the Auditorium of the Archbishop’s House in Colombo. Also present was President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who addressed the assembly in no uncertain terms: ‘The government will have to undergo an investigation […]

40 new priests ordained in Vietnam

The Catholic Church in Vietnam welcomed with great joy and hope the ordination of 40 new priests during June, the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. According to the Vatican news agency Fides, the Diocese of Da Nang welcomed six new priests, “consecrated to be each an ‘alter Christus’ [‘another Christ’], to become pastors […]

Philippine bishops’ conference calls for fair wages and accountability

Closing the 130th Plenary Assembly of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines, the bishops release a letter urging the government and Church institutions to bring awareness to the ongoing issue of decreasing minimum wage in the country and the harsh labour conditions. In the midst of the ongoing disagreement on labour conditions and wages, […]