Kailashahar, Jan. 22, 2019: The Hindu Jagran Manch, a Hindu right-wing group, claimed that 98 Christians belonging to 23 tribal families were “reconverted” to Hinduism in Tripura. The people, mostly tea garden workers hailing from Bihar and Jharkhand, had been converted to Christianity in 2010, Tripura unit president of theContinue Reading
Mumbai, Jan 21, 2019: India’s first-ever all-women political party — the National Women’s Party (NWP) — was launched on Monday in Mumbai and it will contest half — 283 — of the 545 Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 elections. The NWP, described as “a party of mothers”, has beenContinue Reading
By John Dayal Baripada, January 22, 2019: This night 20 years ago, 1999, as they slept in their jeep in a forested village of Manouharpur in Orissa, Australia-born leprosy worker Graham Stuart Staines (1941 – 23 January 1999) and his young sons Timothy (8) and Philip (10) were surrounded, theirContinue Reading
Jhabua, Jan. 20, 2019: A Catholic priest has been arrested in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh for allegedly abetting the suicide of a 17-year-old girl, the police said Jan 20. The accused was identified as Father Prakash Damor (33). The suicide note of the girl, who allegedly hanged herself atContinue Reading
Bhopal, Jan. 21, 2019: A delegation of Rashtriya Isai Maha Sangh (RIMS) lead by Father Dr. Anand Muttungal met the law minister P C Sharma on Jan. 18 and sought withdrawal of false and fabricated cases of forced conversion against them. The minister has assured to withdraw the false casesContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena SS.CC. Manila, January 20, 2019: A Benedictine nun, Maria Teresa Forcades, stressed on the need to promote “Gender equality” in society and Church. Forcades, liberal theologian and social activist of Catalania, Spain, left the audience spell bound as she started to speak on the topic, “Christian MissionContinue Reading
John Malvino Alfonso OCD The Discalced Carmelites are celebrating 400 years of their presence in India. They began their mission in India at Old Goa. The entire Carmelite family will have a joint celebration in Old Goa on 10February 2019. This coincides with an Extraordinary Definitory (a meeting of theContinue Reading
New Delhi, Jan. 20, 2019: Sri Lanka wants to take back all Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who are now in India, country’s High Commissioner to India Austin Fernando said on Jan. 18. “With around 5,000 of these refugees having already returned, we now want to take the rest of themContinue Reading
Punnackadu, Jan. 20, 2019: When Anjay and Nisha, a young couple from Kerala, were married at St Thomas’ Church in Punnackadu, last month, they planted saplings as part of the Church of South India’s new “Green Wedding” protocol. The couple were the first to be married in the CSI sinceContinue Reading
Kochi: Jan 20 : Six Kerala nuns, who have been leading a campaign against rape-accused Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal, have written to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, seeking his urgent intervention in the case. The nuns, four of them have been transferred to different locations from the convent in Kottayam’s KuravilangadContinue Reading
