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by bcadmin | Nov 19, 2022 | anti-conversion laws, BJP, Church in Asia, Church in India, Hindu nationalism, India, lead, News | 0 |
After the Supreme Court of India asks the central government to tackle the issue of “forced conversions,” an archbishop warns “what is at stake is not conversion but the right to freedom of conscience.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 20, 2022 | anti-conversion laws, Archbishop Peter Machado, Bangalore, BJP, Church in Asia, Church in India, Hindu nationalism, India, lead, News | 0 |
Christians in India say a new anti-conversion law passed in the state of Karnataka on Sept. 16 will infringe on the freedom of religion guaranteed by the Indian constitution.
Read MoreWhen it was established in 1947, the modern state of India offered the secular alternative to decidedly Islamic Pakistan. Yes, India was the Hindu-majority carve-out from the British Raj, while Pakistan (which comprised what is now Bangladesh and modern-day Pakistan under 1971) was to be the homeland of the Subcontinent’s Muslims, but for years India
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 19, 2022 | BJP, Church in Asia, Church in India, Hindu nationalism, India, lead, News, Statues | 0 |
Officials have destroyed a 20-foot-tall statue of Jesus that has been standing in a village in India for 18 years.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 16, 2022 | anti-conversion laws, BJP, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, Church in India, Hindu nationalism, India, News | 0 |
Prominent Indian citizens, including Christians, have demanded a repeal of all anti-conversion laws in the country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 15, 2022 | BJP, Catholic Schools, Church in Asia, Church in India, Hindu nationalism, India, lead, News, suicide | 0 |
India’s Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to procced in the investigation of two Catholic nuns who have been accused of inducing a student’s suicide through “forced conversion.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 14, 2022 | Associated Press, BJP, Church in India, Goa, Hindu nationalism, India, News | 0 |
More than 1.1 million voters in the western Goa state in India will decide who among the 301 contestants can help save their ecologically fragile coastal land that is struggling to cope with uncontrolled tourism.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 28, 2021 | Associated Press, BJP, Church in Asia, Church in India, Hindu nationalism, India, Missionaries of Charity, News | 0 |
India’s government has blocked Mother Teresa’s charity from receiving foreign funds, saying the Catholic organization did not meet conditions under local laws, dealing a blow to one of the most prominent groups running shelters for the poor.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 5, 2021 | BJP, Catholic-Muslim relations, Church in Asia, Church in India, Hindu nationalism, India, lead, News, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church | 0 |
Police in the Indian state of Kerala are investigating a charge against Bishop Joseph Kallarangatt of Pala for promoting feelings of hatred and creating rift in the society after he accused some in the Muslim community of engaging in “love jihad.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 5, 2021 | anti-Christian violence, BJP, Church in Asia, Church in India, Hindu nationalism, India, lead, News | 0 |
A mob of around 500 people attacked a Christian church in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand on Sunday, beating up people and vandalizing the place of worship.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 24, 2021 | BJP, Catholic Church, Church in Asia, Church in India, India, Interfaith marriage, lead, News | 0 |
Granting protection to interfaith couples from harassment under Gujarat’s recent anti-conversion law, the Gujarat High Court last week said some sections of the Act will not apply to a marriage that did not involve force, fraud or allurement.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 9, 2021 | Anti-Christian persecution, anti-conversion laws, Bhopal, BJP, Catholic Church, Church in Asia, Church in India, India, lead, News | 0 |
An employee for the Archdiocese of Bhopal’s commission for education has been released on bail after his arrest for the “intentional insult” of the Hindu religion.
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