By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 10, 2024: Catholic priests and religious practicing law in India have reacted differently to a women congregation denying permission to a lawyer member from contesting the Supreme Court Bar Association elections. Sister Jessy Kurian, a member of the St Ann of Providence and aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Oct 15, 2022: Catholic bishops in Kerala have cautioned people against rising occult practices in the wake of reported cases of human sacrifices in the southern Indian state. “No civilized society can image such ghastly murders. We are shocked,” Father Jacob G Palakkappilly, the spokespersonContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, June 6, 2022: Catholic women leaders in India say the death sentence awarded to a man who had raped and brutalized a woman in Mumbai would work as a deterrent. “The perpetrators must be taught a lesson and society at large must come to believeContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi: The harassment of Catholic nuns in a train compartment allegedly by Hindu radicals has drawn condemnation from all sections of society in India. Two nuns and their two novices were taken off an express train and detained for questioning by railway police in Jhansi inContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi: Sister Jessy Kurian, a Supreme Court lawyer and former member of the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, on March 25 urged the Nation Human Rights Commission to act against attackers of nuns traveling on a train. In a letter to the commission, a statutoryContinue Reading