(UCAnews. Bijay Kumar Minj). A Christian forum in India’s northeastern Assam state has appealed to the district authorities to stop a police survey of churches, which has caused panic among community members. The…
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Why Pope Francis is meeting the new Syro-Malabar leader
(The Pillar. Luke Coppen). Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil met with Pope Francis Monday for the first time since his election as head of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in January. The meeting was…
Indian chief minister hailed for rejecting same-sex marriage
(Bijay Kumar Minj.UCAnews). A Church group in India’s northeast has welcomed a politician rejecting a poll promise of the Congress party that pledged marriage rights for the LGBTQIA+ community if voted into power. Continue reading……
Voters abstain from polls in India’s Christian-majority state
(Bijay Kumar Min.UCAnews). People in six districts of the Christian-majority Nagaland state in India’s northeast refused to vote in the ongoing national election to stress their demand for a separate state. Continue reading… Subjects: India
Indian archdiocese seeks to leave Eastern rite Church
(UCANews reporter). Priests of an archdiocese belonging to the Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church want the Vatican to recognize their archdiocese as an independent Church after their Church’s synod failed to resolve a…
Why India’s bishops want to get out the vote
(The Pillar – Luke Coppen). When Catholic bishops issue pre-election messages in Western countries, they often limit themselves to general remarks about the importance of voting for the common good. But when…
Court-appointed judges to run Church of South India
(UCA News reporter). A court has appointed two retired judges to administer the finances and all temporal goods of the crisis-ridden Church of South India (CSI), asking them to oversee the formation…
Hindu mob attacks Catholic school in southern India
(UCA News Reporter). A hardline Hindu group has vandalized a Catholic school and assaulted a priest in southern India after a few students were questioned for attending classes wearing religious costumes instead of the…
Indian court quashes case against Catholic priest
(UCA news REPORTER). A Catholic priest has been set free of the charges of insulting a 17th-century Hindu king by the top court in the tiny western Indian state of Goa. The…
Priests attacked at Catholic mission in east India
The gun-wielding thieves also threatened and looted women teachers at nearby staff quarters of mission school (UCA news reporter). Priests at a Catholic mission in eastern India were brutally attacked by a gang of…
Indian bishops’ ‘guidelines’ for Catholic schools elicit mixed reaction
(Catholic News Agency – Anto Akkara). New guidelines for Catholic schools from the Catholic bishops of India have elicited mixed reactions in the country, with many applauding the move to respect “all…
Indian bishop urges Catholics to vote for secular govt
Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore said the upcoming general election is ‘very important and a historic one’ (Bijay Kumar Minj UCAnews). An archbishop in the southern Indian state of Karnataka has urged Catholics…