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Over 200 cases of violence against Christians in India reported

More than 200 incidents of violence against Christians reported in India, according to data compiled by advocacy group, New Delhi-based Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) – India. According to ADF-India, 218 incidents in 243 days of 2019, 159 mob violence incidents and 27 incidents a month were recorded. Since the beginning of this year, the reported […]

Dark days are ahead for India: Justice Katju

“Something has happened in India which reminds me of what happened in Germany during the Nazi era. After Hitler took power in January 1933 almost the whole of Germany went mad, people shouting ‘Heil Hitler,’ ‘Sieg Heil,’ ‘Juden Verecke’ and adoring that madman like hypnotized zombies. One can see it all on YouTube. Germans are […]

Priest on bail alleges plan to kill him in jail

A Catholic priest who spent ten days in judicial custody for “conversion” alleges a plot to get him killed in the jail. “They tried to kill me inch by inch,” Father Benoy John, who was released on bail on September 16, told the Malayala Manorama newspaper. The 42-year-old priest was arrested on September 6 along […]

Cardinal Gracias in Amazon Synod participants’ list

Cardinal Oswald Gracias, head of the Catholic Church in India, is among participants the Vatican has listed for the Special Assembly of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region. The Vatican on September 21 published the list of participants for the October 6-27 to be held in Rome. Pope Francis on October 15, 2017, convened a Special […]

XLRI – JAMSHEDPUR HAS A NEW DIRECTOR

The Xavier School of Business Management, popularly known as XLRI Jamshedpur, a premier Jesuit intuition has a new Director Rev. Fr P. Maria Joseph Christie, S.J. took over on 7th June, 2019 from Rev. Fr Abraham Enthesmkuzhy who handed over the reins of administration to Rev. Fr Christie, S.J. Fr Abraham was Director of XLRI […]

Patna Jesuit college joins Global Climate Strike

Students of St Xavier’s College of Management and Technology, Patna have expressed solidarity with the Global Climate Strike. They were among millions of students of colleges and schools who on September 27 took to streets at more than 4,500 demonstrations in at least 130 countries to demand politicians to urgently tackle the climate crisis. The […]

Indian prelate urges dialogue with Hindus over ‘forced conversion’

For almost a decade under St John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, then-Monsignor Felix Machado was a primary architect of the Vatican’s inter-religious outreach, including putting together a star-studded 2002 summit of religious leaders in Assisi as a follow-up to John Paul’s historic, and deeply controversial, first such gathering in 1986. Machado, born in […]

Welby calls for respect for religious freedom during visit to India

Stating that his visit to India was “prayer, pilgrimage, and pastoral,” the Archbishop of Canterbury – leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion – took time to encourage political leaders to maintain the country’s commitment to religious freedom. On Sept.9 after celebrating a service in Kolkata’s Saint Paul’s Cathedral – belonging to the Church of North […]

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