Tag: Indian Christians

Cardinal Oswal Gracias was among a select group of faith leaders, business bigwigs, and community figures invited to the PM's residence for the Christmas Day celebration.

With the next assembly elections at the end of this year, there is a move towards delisting of converted tribal people to lift the poll prospects of the ruling party.

The region has faced the largest wave of attacks on Indian Christians on record in 2021, and is one of many states in the country to have passed anti-conversion laws.

A senior police officer sustained head injuries and a few others were injured while they were trying to disperse a mob which vandalized a church in Narayanpur district in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh in central India.

Christians have constantly informed the state administration and the general public that the law was "irrelevant and malicious" and primarily geared at alienating Christians from other religious minorities, the prelate added.

Meanwhile the archdiocese of Bombay said they have requested the government to appoint a marriage officer in Mumbai soon.

The laity must wake up. They have for too long allowed themselves to be misled by this hypocritical show of comic power.

This is not the first time Shetty is under fire for his comments. In March this year, he introduced the private member’s Bill in the Lok Sabha, seeking to raise the age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 if she is marrying without her parent’s consent.

Relics of St. Thomas are less common than his tombs, of which there are purportedly six. A fascinating reliquary exists in Mylapore. Originally housing some of the saint’s bones, it is now empty.

“The rash of violence against Christians, disrupting Palm Sunday prayers, speaks of a heightened impunity, and, we suspect, a more direct collusion of police and local authorities," John Dayal said.