From The States

Mizoram becomes dry state following new liquor law

Mizoram has once again become a “completely dry state” from Tuesday following a new liquor law that prohibits the sale and consumption of alcohol, a Minister said here. “The Mizoram Liquor (Prohibition) Bill, 2019 was passed unanimously in the state Assembly on March 20. The Bill, that received Governor JagdishMukhi’s assent before the parliamentary polls, […]

Indian bishops’ nationwide quiz ‘an exhilarating experience’

The Indian bishops’ office for education and culture has for the first time conducted a nationwide quiz involving about 30,000 Catholic school students. The event marked the 10th anniversary of the All India Catholic Education Policy. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India’s ‘Education Mastermind’ quiz culminated in the capital, New Delhi, on May 15 following […]

Constitution change disaster for Christians: Bishop

Concern’s growing for Christians in India over the potential of a change to the country’s constitution. There are fears that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) want to change the law to make India a Hindu theocratic state. Bishop Nazarene Soosai of Kottar, southern India, says that would be a disaster and that Christians “fear […]

Seminarian dies in road accident

A seminarian of Karnataka’s Bhadravathi diocese died in road accident near Shimoga, some 300 km northwest of Bengaluru, the state capital. Deacon Varghese Kannappilly died on the spot on May 27 when his motorcycle was hit from behind by a speeding jeep. The 26-year-old deacon, also called Vivin, was returning home after dropping a neighbour […]

Caste-driven honour killings still haunt India

Ratna Devi, who lives in a shanty home alongside the Yamuna River in New Delhi, remembers vividly how she and her husband were brutally assaulted by her family because she had married a socially poor Dalit man. The 33-year-old woman fell in love with the Dalit man in her home state of Haryana and married […]

Cardinal, Maulana propose to send delegation to Sri Lanka

The head of the Catholic Church and general secretary of Muslim theologians in India on May 4 proposed to send a high level interfaith delegation to Sri Lanka to explore ways to help the island nation struggling to recover from terrorist attacks. “The most ghastly serial bomb blasts in Sri Lanka’s churches and hotels on […]

SC orders bail for one of the seven innocents of Kandhamal violence

The Supreme Court of India on May 9 granted bail to Gornath Chalanseth, one of the seven innocent Christians languishing in jail for a decade due to the alleged Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a hard-line Hindu group, fraud on Kandhamal, on bail application led by ADF (Alliance Defending Freedom) legal team. The New Delhi-based ADF, […]

South Asian Jesuits rediscover richness of ‘Spiritual Conversation’

A group of South Asian Jesuits has expressed the joy of rediscovering the richness of an Ignatian spiritual tradition. President of the Jesuit Conference of South Asia, Father George Pattery, called the ‘spiritual conversation’ as “a rare fruit.” Some 200 Jesuits from 19 provinces and regions of South Asia attended the April 25-28 assembly on […]

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Pope To Syro-malabar Faithful: Unity Is A Duty

The Goa Bench Of The Bombay High Court Grants Relief For Protestant Pastor, Wife