From The States

Evangelical church torched in Madhya Pradesh

Unidentified persons have set fire to a Protestant church in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Police have launched a probe against those behind the burning of the Evangelical Lutheran church under Kesla police station in Narmadapuram district. People came to know about the incident only on February 12 morning when they went the […]

Indian states asked to report on Christian persecution

India’s top court has directed seven state governments to present details of the action taken by their law enforcement agencies in cases of alleged attacks against Christians and their institutions. A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud on Feb. 6 ordered the state of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, […]

India arrests alleged illegal immigration agents over family who froze to death on US border

Three alleged black-market immigration agents have been arrested in western India in connection with the case of an Indian family who froze to death on the United States’ border with Canada last year, police said Wednesday. Deputy Commissioner Chaitanya Mandlik with Ahmedabad Police’s crime branch named the suspects as Yogesh Patel, Bhavesh Patel, and Dashrath […]

Priests, activists welcome justice for long-suffering Papuans

Rights activists in Indonesia’s restive, Christian-majority Papua province have hailed life-term imprisonment for an ex-soldier accused of killing four Papuans. The sentence is the toughest against a member of the security forces long accused of gross human rights violations in the conflict-torn region. Catholic priest and rights campaigner Father John Djonga said the verdict “signals […]

Syro-Malabar Melbourne diocese gets a new bishop

Pope Francis has appointed Father John Panamthottathil of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI) congregation as the new bishop of St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Diocese of Melbourne, Australia. The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Melbourne, Australia, presented by Bishop Bosco Puthur, who completed […]

Priest, nun die in separate accidents

A 73-year-old Dominican nun and a 36-year-old diocesan priest have died in tragic accidents at two different pa-rts of India. Father Melvin Abraham Pallithazhathu of Bijnor diocese died January 19 when his vehicle fell into a gorge of 500 feet deep at Joshimath in the Chamoli district of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. He […]

Asian Catholic responses to an evangelical presence

In this week of prayer for Christian unity, we are called to pay attention to the diversity of Christians as well as to their mutual relations. We explore here some of the ways through which Asian Catholics respond to the presence of evangelical Christians. Evangelical churches, which stress that one has to be “born again” to […]

Syro-Malabar synod fails to resolve violent row over the Mass

In what amounts to the latest failure to resolve an almost 25 year-old liturgical feud, a six-day meeting of bishops of the Syro-Malabar church concluded Saturday without any new consensus on how Mass ought to be celebrated. Centered in the southern Indian state of Kerala, the Syro-Malabar Church has more than four million followers worldwide, […]

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