By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, July 22, 2020: A group of catholic women “concerned about justice issues in the Church and society” has condemned a former priest’s plan to marry a minor girl he raped and impregnated as an attempt to get out of jail. “We find this extremelyContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mananthavady, March 1, 2020: Pope Francis has defrocked a Catholic priest in Kerala who was convicted for raping and impregnating a 16-year-old girl, a press note from the Mananthavady diocese said on March 1. Robin Vadakkumchery, who was a priest of the Syro-Malabar diocese, is currentlyContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Feb. 16, 2019: The Syro-Malabar Church on February 16 welcomed a court awarding 20 years of jail to a Catholic priest in Kerala for raping and impregnating a minor girl. “The Church acknowledges and welcomes the verdict,” says a press release from the Media CommissionContinue Reading
Kannur: Fr. Robin Vadakkumchery, who was arrested for raping and impregnating a minor girl in Kottiyoor of Kannur, is the biological father of the infant, DNA tests have reportedly proved. The DNA test was conducted at the Forensic laboratory of Thiruvananthapuram, after police found that the survivor and her familyContinue Reading
