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Muslim who collaborates with Catholic nuns

Masthan Sahib has worked with Catholic nuns for four decades in a leprosy rehabilitation centre in Bengaluru, the capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. The centre, Sumanahalli, is under the Bangalore Archdiocese, aided by the state government, and managed by nuns and priests of different congregations. Sahib, a resident of Palamaner, a remote […]

Divine Word Society opens development centre to mark 150 years

More than 200 people have attended the opening of the Community and Human Resources Development Centre at Tala in Maharashtra’s Raigad district to mark the Divine Word Society’s 150 years of service. Archbishop John Rodrigues of Bombay led the thanksgiving Mass on June 18 at the Janseva Society Campus in Tala, some 115 km south […]

Folk artist Sanajit Mandal rekindles spirit of manobtratta Jisu at Bandel Church

The historic Marian shrine of Bandel Church, standing sentinel on the banks of the Hooghly since 1599, became the backdrop for a spiritual and musical homecoming as Baul Samrat Sanajit Mandal reimagined two seminal tracks from Bengali Gospel classic. The music video shoot on June 21, 2025 by Song of Gospel YouTube Channel featured Mandal […]

Police help end Christians’ social isolation in Indian village

The police and administrative intervention helped end the social isolation that Hindus had imposed on a group of Christians in a village in Odisha, India, a police official has confirmed. The one-month social boycott was lifted at a meeting of government officials, police, and some 60 villagers on June 24 in Rangamati of Keonjhar district, said […]

Indian Catholic school denies discriminating against Hindu student

An official from a Catholic school in India’s northeastern Assam state has dismissed an allegation that a teacher forcibly removed a ‘tilak’ — a red circular sacred Hindu mark — from the forehead of a student. Salesian priest Ethelbert Minj, in-charge of Don Bosco School in Sonitpur district, said the allegation levelled by the family of a […]

Nine Catholic priests accused of disturbing order in Indian state

Police have charged nine Catholic priests and a lay leader with unlawful assembly in southern India’s communist-ruled Kerala state, after the accused joined a protest seeking safety for people threatened by coastal erosion. “This is totally a false case and we cannot be silenced with it,” said Joseph Jude, vice-president of Kerala Region Latin Catholic Council. The lay […]

Expelled Indian tribal Christians endure hardships

Tribal Christian families in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh have been passing days in hardship after they were expelled from their village by other villagers allegedly linked with right-wing Hindu groups. Expelled Christians alleged they faced increased hostilities and persecution from religious radicals for their faith before being made homeless earlier this week. Lachhan […]

Persecution surges as BJP completes one year in Indian state

Attacks on Christians in eastern India’s Odisha have surged since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took power in this state a year ago, their leaders say. “Not a single week passes in Odisha without some violent attack aimed at Christians to renounce their faith and return to Hinduism,” says Father Ajay Kumar Singh, a social activist […]