New Delhi — The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) Office for Scheduled Castes and Backward classes (SC/BC) is deeply shocked at the heinous crime of brutal attack, and condemned the rape and cruel murder of a 29 year old Dalit woman who was a law student at Perumbavur, KeralaContinue Reading
A CBCI delegation met the External Affairs Ministry officialsContinue Reading
Issues related to human sexuality, prevalence of pornography and marital infidelity weaken the familyContinue Reading
Bangalore: Catholic bishops in India have expressed anguish over the “dastardly attack’’ on a Missionaries of Charity center in Yemen that killed 16 people, including four nuns. Such brutal attacks by the “evil minds should not deter us from our commitment to serve the poor and the sick,” said aContinue Reading
The bishops addressed several pressing issues confronting India in workshopsContinue Reading
Pathanamthitta: The Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) office for Scheduled Caste/Backward Classes will stage a march in New Delhi on March 10 seeking SC status to Christians and Muslims of SC origin, according to Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Catholicos, Major Archbishop of Thiruvananthapuram, and CBCI president. In a letter issuedContinue Reading
Parishes in Ramanathapuram diocese conducted special prayers for peaceContinue Reading
New Delhi: The creation of a proposed Christian wing of the RSS is splitting the Indian church wide open. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has refused to participate in a meeting being organised by the John Dayal-led United Christian Forum (UCF) here on February 13 to discuss the move.Continue Reading
I had my first close encounter with Mr. Narendra Modi in the late 1990s, sometime before he was parachuted into Ahmedabad as the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh’s choice as the new chief minister of Gujarat. He had accompanied RSS chief Kuppahalli Sudarshan, now dead, to the office of the Catholic BishopsContinue Reading
Bhubaneswar— The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has accepted a suggestion from an Archbishop from Odisha, Eastern India, to discuss the anti-Christian persecution of 2007 and 2008 in Kandhamal at its plenary meeting scheduled for March 2016. Divine Word Archbishop John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar will speak on Kandhamal forContinue Reading
