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Indian nun seeks police action over morphed picture

Catholic bishops in the southern Indian state of Kerala have urged the state government to enact stringent laws to curb misuse of social media after a nun’s picture was morphed and shared on social media with offensive slogans. Sister Lucina Porunnedam said a social media user altered one of her photographs holding a placard with a slogan […]

Catholic school in Mumbai feeding ‘angels in rags’ during coronavirus crisis

Millions of internal migrants – most of the day labourers with little savings – were trapped far from home with little money when the lockdown was declared on March 24 with just a few hours’ notice. There have been over 118,000 cases of the corona virus reported in India, with over 3,500 deaths. The hardest […]

Bishop Leads Construction Of House For Paralytic Villager

A Catholic bishop in a southern Indian diocese has set an example of social responsibility even during the lockdown. Bishop Prince Antony Panengaden of Adilabad in Telangana State rushed to Mittapally, a village in the Mancherial district, when he heard that a fire had destroyed the house of Shankarayya, a paralytic and father of nine. […]

Claims of Indian religious conversions ‘baseless’

A member of parliament from India’s Andhra Pradesh State has alleged that Christian missionaries use money for religious conversion, a claim rejected by church leaders and activists. Raghu Ramkrishna Raju, the minister who represents the southern state, claimed in a television debate on May 25 that Christian missionaries are pumping large sums of money to carry […]

Hindu nationalists attack film set depicting a church in India

Hindu nationalists have vandalized a movie set depicting a church in the Indian State of Kerala, claiming it offended Hindu sensibilities. Production on the Malayalam language film “Minnal Murali” had been suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. The set was destroyed on May 24, with the Hindu nationalist groups Antharashtra Hindu Parishad (AHP) and […]

Kandhamal’s woman catechist shines in male-dominated world

Bimola Montry wears many hats as she balances the roles of a family breadwinner and a committed catechist. The 45-year mother of two has served the Our Lady of Charity Church of Raikia, a parish under the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar arch-diocese, for the past 22 years. “Being catechist is a call from God despite my […]

Communalism controls voting in India: Justice Katju

I read the article ‘Why the Modi government gets away with lies, and how the opposition could change that’ by columnist Shivam Vij in The Print. With due respect to Shivam Vij, the article is superficial, and only reveals the fatuity and intellectual vacuity of the so-called Indian intelligentsia. In times of elections in India, it is […]

First speech and hearing impaired in India pronounces religious vows

The first Indian from the deaf and dumb community on May 25 pronounced his first religious vows, in a historical and rare event. Brother Joseph Thermadom made became a member of the Holy Cross Society as the congregation’s novitiate at Yercaud in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu State. Joseph hails from the Ernakulam-Angamaly […]