Tag: India
Gandhi’s killer a hero to India’s diehard Hindu nationalists
In their view, Gandhi failed to stop Britain's colony from being partitioned into the separate nations of India and Pakistan
The women who lived as sex slaves to an Indian goddess
The stigma around their pasts means women who leave their devadasi order often endure lives as outcasts or objects of ridicule
Cardinal Tagle attends India’s Latin rite bishops’ plenary assembly
The January 24-25 annual plenary will address the theme, “Telling the Story of Jesus in our Context: The Synodal Way”
Wealthy Indian girl renounces fortune, enters strict religious order
The child is one of the youngest people to have taken the "diksha" ceremony to abandon their material possessions and enter the Jain monkhood
Probe finds false evidence planted on late Indian Jesuit’s computer prior...
“Father Stan Swamy was arrested, incarcerated, and died based on fabricated evidence,” read a statement released to the media
Indian government asked to apologize for framing Jesuit priest
"The government and its probe agency should take full responsibility for the judicial death of Father Swamy"
Catholic journalists in India vow to be ‘prophetic communicators’
“We cannot afford to turn a blind eye to the unsavory developments in the social, economic, political, technological and religious spheres"
Church-backed protest against construction of controversial seaport in India ends
The protesters said it was a temporary truce, indicating that they are ready to restart protests if their demands are not met
India at 75: Hindu faith bottled and home-delivered
Since winning elections in 2014, Modi has put Hinduism front and center of his government in the officially secular nation of 1.4 billion
75 dead in India bridge collapse during religious festival
Authorities said nearly 500 people including women and children were celebrating a religious festival on and around the suspension bridge