Tag: Indian Catholics

Sister Jessina Thomas, a member of the Missionary Congregation of the Daughters of St. Thomas, was missing from St Thomas Convent at Vazhakala, a suburb of Kochi, the state’s commercial capital.

Former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee, appearing for Pais, had contended that when oral ‘triple talaq’ could get legal sanctity for granting divorce to Muslim couples, why could Canon law decrees not be made binding on courts of law.

In urban India, land is becoming more and more precious; the government does not find it easy to allot additional space for burial grounds. The problem is compounded because by and large, it is the minority communities who bury the dead.

The medical board constituted to examine the Sister Superior has examined her and the nun is taking her food and medicines, the superintendent said.

DESPITE an apology by the AIB team to the Archdiocese of Bombay and the Christian community, Christian groups on Wednesday met Bishop Agnelo Gracias and made it clear they intended to pursue the FIR filed against the AIB.

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.