From The States

Church congratulates Diliip Tirkey for becoming Hockey India president

The Church in India has congratulated Dilip Tirkey, who was elected unopposed as the president of the Ho-ckey Federation of India. “We extend our congratulations to Dilip Tirkey for this new top job in India. The Church of India is definitely proud of him,” said Divine Word Father Nicholas Barla, secretary of the Office of […]

Remembering the crimes of India’s Dara Singh

The Christian community in India remembers Jan. 22, 1999, as the day Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines, who worked with leprosy patients in Odisha, and his young sons Timothy and Philip, were burned alive. It was on that day that the Western world really came face to face with the violence being meted out to […]

US Congress seeks independent probe into Stan Swamy’s death

An organization engaged in spreading awareness about Chri-stian contribution to the Indian society has urged the Karnataka governor not to sign a bill against religious conversions. “It is nothing but a dictatorial bill,” says a letter the Reverend Ferdinand Kittle Foundation wrote to the state Governor Thawar Chand Gehlot September 17, a day after the […]

Karnataka governor urged not to sign anti-conversion law

Mother of renowned author Arundhati Roy passes away

Mary Roy, an educator and a women’s rights activist, died September 1 after a brief ill-ness in Kottayam, a town in the southern Indian state of Kerala. She was 89. She was survived by two children, son Lalit Roy and daughter Arundhati Roy, renowned writer and activist who won the 1997 Man Booker prize for […]

Citizen groups in Varanasi rally in support of Bilkis Bano

A powerful citizen’s movement in Varanasi has come to the streets demanding justice to Bilkis Bano, a rape survivor of the 2002 communal riots in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The Sajha Sanskriti Manch (SSM, United Forum for Cultural Diversity), network of various social and human rights organization, has organized a series of public […]

Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav Kolkata event honours four Clergymen

At an event marking Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav – 75 years of India’s in-dependence – and Literacy Day, Church Art Kolkata honoured four clergy men for outstanding contribution to society along with several other eminent citizens. The program was held at Indian Council for Cultural Relations Kolkata Satyajit Ray auditorium, September 8, 2022. Church Art […]

Priest who inspired Dalit movements in southern India dies

Father P Antonisamy, who was an inspiration to scores of Dalit priests, religious and lay faithful, died on Sept. 6 in Pondicherry. He was 82. He was a resident of Emmaus house in Pondicherry, a house of the retired clergy of the Archdiocese, for the past five years.