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Strategy seen in attacks on priests in eastern India

Christian leaders in eastern India claim that the increasing incidents of robbery and assaults on priests in the region are systematic and part of a larger agenda to weaken the Church’s mission. In the latest incident, five masked men broke into the vicarage of a Catholic parish in Simdega diocese, in Jharkhand, during the early […]

Don Bosco HRD mission Dhobasole marks one year of service to leprosy patients

As Don Bosco HRD Mission Dhobasole, West Midnapore completes one year of service to the Leprosy patients and their families, the team reflects on its humanitarian efforts to bring relief to patients in a leprosy hospital and rehabilitation villages. Nestled in Anchuri village, near Anchuri railway station, the government-run Bankura Leprosy Hospital serves patients from […]

CCBI Inaugurates New Headquarters in New Delhi, Marking Historic Milestone

The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), the national episcopal conference for the Latin Catholic Church in India, celebrated a landmark event today with the solemn blessing and inauguration of its newly renovated General Secretariat at 9-10, Bhai Vir Singh Marg, New Delhi. His Eminence Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, President of the CCBI, presided […]

New leader for Jalandhar diocese

The Vatican has appointed a new bishop for India’s Jalandhar dioce-se in Punjab, four years after Bishop Franco Mulakkal stepped down des-pite a court clearing him of charges of raping a nun. The Vatican named Father Jose Sebastian Thekkum-cherikunnel as the new bishop on June 7. The 63-year-old priest serves as the financial administrator of […]

Goan Jesuit Priest Appointed to Key Synodal Role at Jesuit Curia in Rome

Jesuit Father Joseph Cardo-zo has been chosen to assist the Office of Discernment and Apostolic Planning for a Synodal Church. “It is in response to the call of the late Pope Francis, who after the completion of the Synod in Rome, had requested the Society of Jesus to help the Catholic Church in actualizing Synodality,” […]

Pope Leo XIV at Mass: ‘I offer you the little that I have and am’

We must listen to others, and above all, to the voice of God. That was the idea at the centre of Pope Leo XIV’s homily at Mass in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, the Cathedral of the Bishop of Rome, where he celebrated Mass on 25th May Sunday evening. Before heading to the Cathedral […]

Cardinal Parolin affirms Vatican’s ‘unwavering’ support for United Nations’ mission

As Pope Leo XIV begins his pontificate with an emphasis on peace, justice and bridge-building, the Vatican has reaffirmed its “unwavering support for the mission of the United Nations” amid conflict and other urgent challenges facing the global community. The Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, addressed U.N. representatives at the entity’s New York […]

Msgr. Renzo Pegoraro appointed President of Pontifical Academy for Life

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Msgr. Renzo Pegoraro as the new President of the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV), who has served as the Academy’s Chancellor since September 2011. Msgr. Pegoraro, a bioethi-cist with a medical degree, succeeds Arch-bishop Vincenzo Paglia, who turned 80 on April 21. In an Academy-issued statement, Msgr. Pegoraro expressed, “I […]