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Nun rape case: Pressure on witness to retract statement

Sister Lissy Vadakkel, main witness in the case of Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of sexually abusing a nun at a convent in Kerala, said pressure is being budged on her to retract her statement. She said they are forcing her to withdraw her statements over phone and in person. Sister Lissy said that she is […]

Cardinal Alencherry elected Kerala Catholic Bishops Council president

Cardinal  George Alencherry was on Dec 6 elected the president of Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council (KCBC), an association of the Catholic bishops of all three rites in the state. The head of Syro Malabar Catholic Church succeeds Abp Maria Calist Soosa Pakiam of Trivandrum Latin archdiocese. Bishop Varghese Chakkalakal of Calicut (Latin) will be the […]

Christian women demand making India safer for women

An ecumenical group of Christian women has condemned increasing incidents of violence against women in India and demanded making society safer for them. “In this dreadful situation of unbridled gender violence and sexual crimes, we demand a country that is safe and peaceful for Indian women and girls,” the Indian Christian Women Movement said in […]

Bhutan’s only Catholic priest

Recently by chance, I met Father Kinley Tshering, former provincial superior of Darjeeling Jesuit Province in India, the first and only native Bhutan Catholic Priest. Bhutan is a close Buddhist theocracy with a population of less than a million, located in the Eastern Himalayas in South Asia, sandwiched between India and China. Bhutan is the […]

Move to end seats in parliament upsets Anglo-Indians

India plans to end the practice of nominating representatives of Anglo-Indians in its parliament, shocking the mostly Christian group that traces its ancestry to the British. The federal government, led by the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Dec. 9 presented a bill to amend the constitution, aiming to end the provision of reserving two […]

Arunachal missionary nun receives International Human Rights Award

Sacred Heart Sister Rose Tom, a gynaecologist, has been conferred with ‘International Human Rights” award for 2019 for her healthcare services in interior villages of Arunachal Pradesh. The Delhi-based International Human Rights Council gave the award on December 9 at a function held in the India Islamic Centre Auditorium in the presence of invitees from […]

Kandhamal children receive educational support from Canadian group

A Canada-based Catholic humanitarian group has come forward to support the education of children of the Kandhamal survivors in Odisha, eastern India. “Faith without work is dead,” said Al Basilo, operations head of the Answering the Cry of the Poor (ANCOP) International Canada, at a gathering of 522 such children who gathered at Catherine’s Girls’ […]

Franciscans seek ways to evangelize through social media

The Association of Franciscan Families of India (AFFI) organized a national training for priests and nuns for effective evangelization through social media at St Fidelis College, Lucknow. As many as 72 members of AFFI along with secretaries of other religious congregation attended the Dec. 1-4 intensive hands-on training on “Social Media and Communications,” said Capuchin […]