Tag: Catholics in India

India’s caste system is a social hierarchy that can dictate class and social life, including whom a person can marry. Today, regardless of their religion, Indians nearly universally identify with a caste category.

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.

A Catholic bishop has reportedly regretted attending a marriage between a Catholic woman and a Muslim man inside a church. “I attended the mixed marriage...

The Pope has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Telesphore Toppo, who was the Ranchi archbishop for the past 34 years.

THE 71-year-old rape survivor has forgiven the bandits, but the authorities must ensure that justice is made visible, the head of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, said on Wednesday.

THIS much is clear - at no cost do the Christians living in Mangalore want to rake up the past. What is not clear is whether they feel any more secure than immediately after 2008, when churches were vandalised.

Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Archbishop Geo­r­ge Antonysamy, Apos­t­olic nuncio to West African Countries, as the new Archbishop of Madras and Mylapore. He succeeds Archbishop Malayappan Chinnappa, who has retired.