By Matters India Reporter Jabalpur, June 22, 2023: The Madhya Pradesh High Court on June 22 granted anticipatory bail to a Catholic bishop and nun accused of attempting to convert to Christianity railway destitute children in a diocesan orphanage. A single judge bench of the high court, based in Jabalpur,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, June 21, 2023: Police in Bengaluru on June 21 arrested a person suspected to be involved in the break in of a Catholic church in the southern Indian city. An intruder armed with a hammer and crowbar forcibly entered the premises of St. Pius XContinue Reading
By F. M. Britto Raipur, June 20, 2023: Three masked men have looted a presbytery in broad daylight under the Raipur archdiocese in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. “I am safe, anyhow,” Father Varghese Thekkekut, parish priest of St. Theresa of Avila at Bagbahra in Mahasamund district, told MattersContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, June 19, 2023: The Syro-Malabar Church, a Kerala-based Oriental rite in the Catholic fold, has welcomed the decision of the government in neighbouring state of Karnataka to repeal a law prohibiting religious conversions. The decision “deserves appreciation by all those who stand for democracy andContinue Reading
By Indian Currents New Delhi, June 16, 2023: Manipur violence is aimed at destroying, if not eliminating, the Christian community in the northeastern Indian state, says Dean Kuriakose, a Member of Parliament from Kerala. Kuriakose joined another parliamentarian from Kerala Hibi Eden to visit Manipur in the second week ofContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, June 15, 2023: Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore on June 15 commended the Karnataka government for repealing the controversial Anti-Conversion law, enforced by the previous Hindu nationalist government. “On behalf of the Christian Community, I express my profound gratitude and satisfaction towards the government of KarnatakaContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Guwahati, 14 June 2023: Archbishop Emeritus Thomas Menamparampil of Guwahati, apostle of peace in northeastern India, has gone to Manipur twice where ethnic violence has raged since May 3. “It is not easy to describe what I am doing. I have visited Manipur already twice, spendingContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, June 14, 2023: Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore has promised free education and hostel accommodation in Church-managed educational institutions to young people from the strife-torn northeastern Indian state of Manipur. The prelate told this June 12 at a meeting of a group of young ManipuriContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jashpur, June 13, 2023: A newly professed nun, who was jailed along with four others for alleged conversion charges, were on June 13 granted bail by a court in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Sister Vibha Kerketta was arrested June 6 and jailed the nextContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, June 12, 2023: The special synod meeting of the Syro-Malabar Church began June 12 with Cardinal George Alencherry bemoaning the persecution of Christians in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. The synod is being held at the behest of the Vatican at Mount St. Thomas,Continue Reading
