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Indian Church seems to have all but forgotten Manipur

The sensitive border state of Manipur “is engulfed in violent anarchy,” says M.G. Devasaha-yam, a retired bureaucrat from India’s elite civil service cadre, who previously served as an army officer seeing action in war and engaging in internal security matters. Devasahayam, a guiding force of an exceptionally influen-tial group of retired civil servants and judges […]

Imphal Archbishop seeks Pope’s prayer for peace in Manipur

Abp Linus Neli of Imphal has requested Pope Francis to pray for the people of Manipur state in north-eastern India. The archbishop made the plea on September 21 during an audience with the Pope. He was in Rome to attend the September 15-22 formation course for newly appointed bishops organized by the Dicastery for Evangelization. […]

Indian court again refuses to hear Stan Swamy case

The top court of India’s Maharashtra state has, for an eighth time, refused to hear a plea seeking to clear late Jesuit Father Stan Swamy from an anti-terror case that includes a plot to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Justice Revati Mohite-Dere of the Bombay High Court recused herself from hearing the plea on Sept. […]

Latin bishops launch school textbooks for higher secondary schools

The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) on September 10 launched a set of 115 textbooks for schools under the Central Board of Secondary Education and the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education. CCBI president Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrao, Archbishop of Goa and Daman, unveiled the textbooks at an event held at St. John’s National […]

Two people booked for trying to sell historic Indian church

Police in a northern Indian state have booked two people for allegedly trying to sell off a more than a century-old Protestant church by posing as its office bearers. Police said Jordan Masih and Mary Wilson were arrested after they tried to sell the 129-year-old Golaknath Memorial Church in Punjab state’s Jalandhar city, posing as […]

Mar Thomas Tharayil elected as Archbishop of Changanacherry and Mar Prince Antony Panengadan Bishop of Shamshabad

The Synod of the Syro-Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church, gathered at Mount St. Thomas, Kerala, having received prior papal assent according to CCEO can. 184, canonically elected to the office of Archbishop of the Archeparchy of Changanacherry, Mar Thomas Tharayil (52), until present Auxiliary of the Archeparchy of Changanacherry, and Mar Prince Antony Panengadan (48), until […]

Church in India Unveils National Pastoral Plan: Mission 2033

The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) has launched its new National Pastoral Plan, titled “Journeying towards a Synodal Church: Mission 2033.” The plan was officially released by Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, President of the CCBI, during a meeting at St. John’s National Institute of Health Sciences, Bangalore, on September 11, 2024. The event […]

Cardinal Ferrão calls for joyful service in Church

Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), has urged people working for the conference to serve the Church with joy and dedication. The cardinal was addressing the staff of various CCBI secretariats on September 9 at Paalanaa Bhavana in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, a press release […]

Salesians elect Maltese priest Fabio Attard as Don Bosco’s 11th successor

Pope Francis does not accept Cardinal Koch’s resignation: could continue at least until anniversary of Council of Nicea