Tag: John Dayal

“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.

India's law commission on September 12 recommended to the federal government that an amendment be made to the Indian Succession Act, 1925, which governs Christian rights.

INDIA'S religious minorities have been locked in legal combat to safeguard their statutory right to run educational institutions to preserve and nurture their culture.

IT was expected, but many have still been surprised by the extent to which the Church has entered the political arena ahead of India’s most bitterly fought general election in decades.

IT has turned out to be a dark joke. But it used to elicit quite a laugh when friends in New Delhi told young priests “Father, if you observe your vow of chastity as you observe your vow of poverty, God help the Church”.

THE All India Christian Council (AICC) has termed as ‘ominous’ the statement of Attorney General G E Vahanvati and said it was deeply concerned about an indefinite delay of equal rights for Christians and Muslims of Scheduled Caste origin.