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

Yangon: As tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee violence in Myanmar and global criticism mounts over the civilian government’s silence on the crisis, the country’s top Catholic leader says that Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi “should have spoken out.” Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, archbishop of Yangon, says theContinue 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