By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 16, 2022: Setting up national and state redressal commissions and strengthening India’s human rights monitoring mechanisms were among the demands an ecumenical body made to the federal minister of minority affairs. A delegation of the United Christian Forum on June 16 submitted toContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 14, 2022: A Catholic nun working in the diocese of Rajkot in Gujarat state died in a road accident three days ago. Sister Grace Jose, a member of the Franciscan Clarist Congregation, was going for evening Mass on a scooter on June 11Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 13, 2022: The United Christian Forum (UCF), an ecumenical group, has demanded urgent judicial and government intervention to check what it says is the rapid rise in incidents of violence, coercion and false arrests that traumatize the community. The persecution is most acuteContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, June 11, 2022: Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli, apostolic nuncio to India and Nepal, on June 11 said the Vatican has accepted the Indian court decision about Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar. The nuncio, who was on a two-day pastoral visit to Jalandhar, said this June 11Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Amritsar, June 6, 2022: A top Sikh leader on June 6 expressed concern over churches and mosques being built in large numbers in rural Punjab and urged Sikh preachers to reach out and counter this trend of conversion, particularly in the state’s border areas. Akal TakhtContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 3, 2022: Christian groups in India have welcomed the Delhi High Court questioning the basis for filing petitions on forced conversion. The bench of Justices Sanjeev Sachdeva and Tushar Rao Gedela on June 3 pointed out that conversion is not prohibited in India. “It’sContinue Reading
By Rani Punnaserril New Delhi, June 2, 2022: The International Catholic Migration Commission has elected Christine Nathan, the first Asian and Indian, as its president. The election took place of when the commission’s council met May 30-June 1 in Rome. The council has members from all national bishops’ conferences inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Alappuzha: June 1, 2022: A Catholic priest was found hanging inside the parish hall of St Paul’s Church, Kalath, in Alappuzha May 31. Father Sunny Arackal’s body was found by the parishioners at 4:30 pm when they came for a meeting. He was a native ofContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 29, 2022: Catholics in India seem euphoric after Pope Francis named a Dalit from the country among the 21 new cardinals. Archbishop Anthony Poola of Hyderabad, who was born in a Dalit Catholic family in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, is amongContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 26, 2922: Christians working for women’s empowerment in India have welcomed a Supreme Court order recognizing sex work as a profession. At the same time a Catholic moral theologian says crime is different from sin and something decriminalized does not stop being a sin.Continue Reading
