India

The Catholic Church in India’s northeastern Assam state has opened a safe house for the marginalized transgender community this month.

A group of Hindu extremists attacked Christians and destroyed homes in a village in India’s Odisha state last week.

Even as India dares to breathe easier as the infections and deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic appear to be lessening, an invisibilized community of leprosy patients are doubly disadvantaged.

Workers of India's tea gardens in the northeastern state of Assam, already stressed for lack of regular wages, found themselves in greater danger as an unexpected outbreak of COVID-19 infections were discovered from three tea estates in Kalain block near the Assam border with Mizoram state.

A Catholic from northeast India became the second climber from Arunachal Pradesh to scale Mt Everest.

The Archdiocese of Imphal in India has proposed six points to help address the coronavirus pandemic in the area.

At least 400 Catholic priests and nuns died in India due to COVID-19 in the past two months, a Vatican report said.

The Church has always stepped in in times of crisis, and its religious personnel are usually in the frontline.

Detained Jesuit priest Stanislaus Lourduswamy, known as Stan Swamy, has tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, May 30.

The Bombay High Court has ordered prison authorities on Friday, May 28, to immediately transfer detained Jesuit priest Stanislaus Lourduswamy, known as Stan Swamy, to a private hospital.

"I would rather suffer, possibly die very shortly if this were to go on," said Jesuit priest Stan Swamy.

Prices of basic goods have gone up in almost all states in India following the lockdown due to the rising cases of COVID-19 in the country.

A court in India has ordered prison officials on Wednesday, May 19, to bring detained Jesuit priest Stanislaus Lourduswamy, known as Stan Swamy, back to hospital for further consultation.

The health condition of detained Indian Jesuit priest Stan Swamy worsened on Wednesday, a day after was brought back to jail following a short visit to the hospital.

In his keynote address, Bishop Albert Hemrom of Dibrugarh (Assam), NESCOM chairman, stressed the need “to uphold truth in the context of fake news and distorted truth.

In an increasingly socially-fractured India, we need many more such sterling examples like the late Tarun Gagoi who would set a new benchmark in building an inclusive and tolerant society.

The Catholic Church in India has offered 60,000 hospital beds and other facilities for the use of COVID-19 patients amid the continuing surge of infections in the country.

The Salesians of Don Bosco is among religious congregations in India that have been in the forefront in responding to the needs of the most vulnerable during the pandemic.

Pope Francis prayed for India as the country’s total COVID-19 cases rose by over 400,000 for the fourth consecutive day on Sunday.

India's longest serving bishop, Philipose Mar Christostom, bishop emeritus of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, passed away on May 5. He was 103 years old on April 27.