Father Francis Alappatt, a trained doctor who later entered the seminary, helped shape one of Kerala’s largest hospitals and pioneered a statewide blood donation initiative. […]
India’s Catholic bishops are pushing back on a Supreme Court ruling that reaffirmed Christians are excluded from constitutional protections for lower-caste communities. […]
Catholic bishops in India’s Maharashtra state are calling a newly passed anti-conversion bill — the 13th such law in India — an unjustified interference in the Church’s sacramental practice. […]
India’s government has rejected the findings in the 2026 report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) amid increasing atrocities against minority Christians. […]
The Rastriya Swatantra Party won 125 of 165 directly elected seats in the March 5 vote, ending decades of coalition instability in the Himalayan nation. […]
Hounded Christians in the Kandhamal jungles of India’s eastern Orissa state celebrated Christmas without violence, thanks to security measures finally adopted by the government. More than 8,000 Christian refugees were sheltered in seven relief camps. […]
Last December, Christians in India’s eastern Orissa state suffered some of the worst persecutions in the country’s history—a Christmas nightmare orchestrated by Hindu bigots who run wild in the jungles of the state’s Kandhamal district. […]
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