American Catholics’ immersion in Indian culture By Maria Wiering Minnesota, March 14, 2020: Despite the Center for Mission’s best efforts to prepare us, none of us knew quite what to expect as our plane cleared India’s Malabar coast and prepared for landing in Kochi, Kerala’s largest city. Our flights tookContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi, March 11, 2020: When U.S. President Donald Trump made his first official visit to India in the last week of February, parts of Delhi, the national capital, were in flames. At least 50 people were killed and hundreds wounded in sectarian riots triggered by theContinue Reading
By Philip Mathew Tiruchirappalli, March 10, 2020: John Antony was 9 when his mother brought him to a special school managed by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in the southern Indian city of Tiruchirappalli, also called Trichy, in 2008. His mother cried and pleaded with the nuns to admitContinue Reading
By Joanna Slater and Niha Masih New Delhi, March 10, 2020: Hours before Anwar Kassar was shot and burned to death, he was having tea with a neighbor. It was time to leave, the neighbor suggested to him. Violence had broken out between Hindus and Muslims nearby, and rumors flewContinue Reading
By Sukirti Dwivedi New Delhi, March 8, 2020: The violence in northeast Delhi in the last of week of February over contentious citizenship law that killed at least 50 people will remain etched in the memory of locals for a long time. But they will also remember stories of courage,Continue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Belgaum, March 7, 2020: Devaki Vishwanath Gali ekes out a living making bamboo baskets at home and selling them at weekly market. The woman from the outskirts of Belgaum says basket weaving has been her family’s traditional job for generations, but she never received recognition or appreciationContinue Reading
New Delhi, March 5, 2020: Reporting in India has never been without its risks, but journalists say attacks on the media during the deadly communal riots between Hindus and Muslims in New Delhi in the last week of Febryart show the situation is deteriorating. One reporter was shot and survived,Continue Reading
By Vindu Goel Published March 2, 2020 At least, that’s what Google Maps told us. One of India’s oldest and best wineries looked more like a construction site that had been abandoned mid-project: An open-sided building was surrounded by concrete slabs, poles and lumber. My wife spotted a pair ofContinue Reading
New Delhi, March 1, 2020: Pappu Shukla was 7 when he was playing in the street with his older sister. A man who took him to his car and kidnapped him. When he got out of the vehicle, he did not know where he was but was told that heContinue Reading
CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE OF INDIA XXXIV PLENARY ASSEMBLY, ST. JOHN’S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, BENGALURU, 13-19 FEBRUARY 2020 Dialogue: Path to Truth and Charity INTRODUCTION We, the 192 member Bishops of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, assembled for our XXXIV Plenary Assembly at St. John’s National Academy ofContinue Reading
