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Lawsuit alleges Church protected abusive priest

A man in California, allegedly abused by a Salesian priest, has filed a case against the order and the Vatican, saying that the officials covered for the priest by shuffling him between three continents over three decades.
The complainant alleged that Reverand Titian “Jim” Miani abused children in Italy, Canada and California, including at least 12 [...]

MP women asked to assert rights

Marking International Women’s Day, the Church in Madhya Pradesh state has launched two initiatives to help women access government schemes and assert their rights.
Madhya Pradesh Isai Maha Sangh, the federation of lay Christian organizations in the state, observed the special day with a day-long program on how to access state welfare schemes meant for women.
“Our [...]

Church fights state control of property

Catholics in Madhya Pradesh state have launched a campaign to garner public support against a proposed legislation that aims to bring Church properties under government control.
The Church campaign began as the central Indian state, governed by the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), began its assembly session on Feb. 22. Christian leaders fear the government may [...]

Church deplores BJP’s quota opposition

Church people have described as “unacceptable” a pro-Hindu party’s resolve to oppose a proposal recommending quotas in government jobs for poor Christians and Muslims.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, Indian people’s party), the political wing of Hindu groups working to make India a Hindu nation, made that resolution during its three-day national meeting. The gathering ended [...]

Church helps rescue stranded children

Two Church centers have played a crucial role in recovering 76 children from India’s northeast, found abandoned in the south.
The children from poor families had been taken with their parents’ consent some years ago by a Protestant pastor who apparently said he would educate them.
A Catholic center discovered the children in Tamil Nadu’s Kanniyakumari district, [...]

‘Matured’ Catholics ignore Goa carnival

The Catholic community in Goa has “matured” since the 1980s when the carnival there brought Christians and others into conflict, a Church spokesman says.
“The Church does not nag (about the carnival). We have taken for granted that the Catholic community has matured,” Father Francis Caldeira, spokesperson of Goa and Daman archdiocese said as the western [...]

Church to help ‘miserable’ nomads

The Church will use all channels at its disposal to help nomads, whose lives have become “miserable,” Catholic officials said at the end of a two-day seminar in Bhopal Feb. 14.
Archbishop Leo Cornelio of Bhopal, president of Pastor Care of Nomads in India, said increased industrialization and urbanization have become an increasing threat to nomads, [...]

Carmelites of Mary Immaculate

The Congregation of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI) is the first indigenous religious congregation in the Catholic Church of India. Their web site www.cmi.in gives history and works of the congregation.
Besides offering e-mail facilities for its members, the site also offers contact details of the congregation’s houses across India and lists all its members including [...]

Militants lay down arms in Assam

Some 410 members of a banned militant group surrendered today [Feb. 11] in Assam, raising hopes of peace in northeastern India.
The militants of the Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation front (KNLF), including 22 women, laid their weapons in front of Assam Chief Minister Taru Gogoi at Diphu, a major town in the state.
“It is [...]

RSS soothes Kerala Church leaders

The leader of a rightwing Hindu group held out an olive branch to the heads of three Churches in Kerala on the weekend in a bid to improve its relations with Christians and Muslims.
“Our discussions were fruitful and on a friendly note,” Ram Madhav, spokesperson of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS, national volunteers corps), told [...]

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