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Miscreants burn Manipur’s second oldest Catholic school

A group miscreants has burned down the second oldest Catholic school in Manipur over disciplinary action taken against some students. St Joseph Higher Secondary School at Sugnu in Chandel district of the north-eastern Indian state lost all its files and records of the past 55 years after the miscreants set it on fire around 9 […]

Easter party cuts across religious divide in India

Some 3,000 people including Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs joined Christians this year in celebrating Easter at an event in central India’s Bhopal city aimed at promoting religious tolerance. Archbishop Leo Cornelio of Bhopal was the main organizer of the inter-religious gathering in the capital of Madhya Pradesh State on Easter Sunday. “Religious fanaticism is not […]

Indian police protect convent, school following mob attacks

Police are protecting a Catholic convent and a school two weeks after mobs attacked and injured several people, including four nuns, in southern India’s Tamil Nadu State. Indian bishops on April 6 appealed to political leaders in New Delhi and Tamil Nadu “to deal sternly” with criminals who attacked the convent of the Franciscan Sisters […]

Changing Good Friday holiday challenged in Supreme Court

Catholics have challenged in Supreme Court the decision of two federally ruled territories to cancel traditional Good Friday holiday, making it restricted holiday. The administrations in the western Indian territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diu have moved Good Friday from the list of public holidays to restricted holidays when staff have […]

Controversial Church land sale: Report submitted to Rome

Bp Jacob Manathodath, apostolic administrator of Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese, on April 5 submitted to Rome the enquiry report on the controversial land sale. The administrator handed over the report to Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, the prefect of the Pontifical Congregation for Oriental Churches, in the Vatican, says a press release from Father Paul Karendan, the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese’s […]

Stephens’ teachers want meet on new admission policy

The staff at St Stephen’s College, Delhi has requested the principal to hold a staff meeting to discuss the changes in the admission policy passed by the Governing Body (GB). On March 14, the governing body decided to hold an aptitude test for undergraduate courses from this year and increase the merit differential percentage from […]

Arunachal Catholic body withdraws appeal to vote for Congress

The Arunachal Pradesh Catholic Association has withdrawn its prayer petition appealing to the Catholics to pray and vote for Congress candidate from Arunachal West constituency and former chief minister Nabam Tuki. The prayer petition came after the appeal went viral in social media and caught the Election Commission’s attention, which asked the association to withdraw […]

Tribal Christians hold election key in Indian state

Tribal leaders in India’s Jharkhand State say their people have emerged from political oblivion to become a decisive force in the upcoming parliamentary election. They plan to use their votes to respond to government policies that hurt them, said Catholic leader Prabhakar Tirkey. Tribal people, who follow both Christianity and the indigenous Sarna faith, can […]

Eviction-facing Indian Catholics to fight Muslim charity’s claims

Goans oppose tourism project near 16th century basilica