Matters India Reporter Jhabua, Dec 19, 2025: In a significant affirmation of religious freedom, the Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has upheld the right of Catholic parishes in Jhabua diocese to conduct Christmas carol singing, after local police and administrative authorities denied permission. For years, parishes inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Aug 14, 2023: The Supreme Court of India on August 14 refused to stay the anticipatory bail granted by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh to a Catholic bishop and a nun, accused of religious conversion. The apex court was hearing a petition fromContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jabalpur, June 28, 2023: The Madhya Pradesh high court June 28 ordered the state police to demolish a boundary wall they built seven days ago that blocked access to a Catholic school. A single bench of Justice Sanjay Dwivedi also directed the police to make immediateContinue Reading
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 Jabalpur, Nov 18, 2022: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has ordered the state government not prosecute inter-religious couples who got married in violation of a state law that prohibits religious conversion for the purpose of marriage. The principal bench of the high court based in JabalpurContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, March 29, 2022: The death of a Catholic bishop in a road accident in central India three years ago is making news again after his family demanded a federal probe. Claramma Constatine, a younger sister of the Bishop Thomas Thennatt says they want the probeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Sagar, Jan 7, 2022: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has stayed the forcible shifting of orphans from St. Francis Orphanage in Sagar, a town in the central Indian state. “Shifting of 44 orphan children from St. Francis orphanage was stopped after the Jabalpur bench of MadhyaContinue Reading
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