Mumbai: The Archdiocese of Bombay raised objections to the status of 90 churches in Mumbai last year when the city’s proposed development plan was released last year. The archdiocese maintained that the churches had been wrongly marked. However, when the civic body released its modifications to the plan on itsContinue Reading

New Delhi: Tihar jail woman inmate Lesley is scared of facing the world after her release from the prison and so are others like her, she said on Saturday. Lesly was speaking at a day-long programme “Beyond Prison Walls – Conversation on Prisoners’ Rights”, which brought together inmates, government functionaries,Continue Reading

Ranchi: “Anti-conversion” laws, which in fact are instruments to restrict religious freedom, continue to exacerbate and polarize Indian society: says Jesuit Father Michael Kerketta, Indian theologian and professor in Ranchi, capital of the Indian state of Jharkhand, northern India. Jharkhand recently became the ninth state of India to approve andContinue Reading