Elderly Indian Jesuit says training, work help him cope in jail

An elderly Jesuit priest struggling in an Indian jail with ill health says he still finds happiness in listening to the stories of other inmates and credits his congregation for the training that helps him cope with his situation. Father Stan Swamy, 84, has been in Taloja Central Jail in Mumbai since 9th October following... Read More

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October 26, 2020

Indian opposition parties and UN official protest elderly Jesuit’s arrest

Major opposition parties in India and a United Nations official backed an octogenarian Jesuit priest who was jailed for alleged charges of sedition and links with Maoist rebels and demanded his immediate release. The leaders of the opposition Congress, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam... Read More

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October 13, 2020

Competition to #CelebrateGirlsforLife on International Day of the Girl Child 2020

Every baby girl deserves the chance to grow up but in India and other parts of the world, girls are targeted for abuse and discrimination, from before birth and throughout their lives. On the International Day of the Girl Child on 10th October, ADF India partnered with other leading organisations to reveal the winning entries to... Read More

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October 13, 2020

Indian Jesuit, 83, held for terrorism; thousands protest charges

A special court in Mumbai has placed Jesuit Fr Stan Swamy, a tribal rights activist, in judicial custody until 23rdOctober amid protests in many parts of the country. Officials of the National Investigation Agency, which probes terrorism-linked activities, arrested the 83-year-old priest on 8th October at his residence at Bagaicha, a Jesuit social work centre in... Read More

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September 11, 2020

Syro-Malabar synod urges dioceses to set up cremation facilities in India

The Synod of the Bishops of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church has recommended setting up crematoriums in dioceses amid the worsening Covid-19 pandemic. “Though burying the dead bodies is the practice in the Church, the (Eastern-rite) canon law permits cremation in times of pandemic,” said Cardinal George Alencherry, major archbishop of the Church. The synod said... Read More

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August 20, 2020

Prameel Joseph rejoices as ordination dream is fulfilled

Prameel Joseph from St Luke’s in Peterborough has fulfilled a calling he has felt for many years after he was ordained to the diaconate by the Bishop of East Anglia at St John’s Cathedral. When he was younger, Prameel, who is from India, joined the Rosminian Fathers religious congregation. During a discernment at the end... Read More

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June 24, 2020

Beware of ‘radical nationalists’ trying to use Christianity, Jesuit writes

Using religion to prop up an exaggerated sense of nationalism perverts healthy patriotism in its attempts to solidify national identity by excluding some members of society, said an essay in an influential Jesuit journal. “In some countries, a form of religious-cultural nationalism is back in vogue. Religion is exploited both to obtain popular support and... Read More

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May 5, 2020

Sacristan sentenced to life in prison for murder of Indian shrine rector

An Indian court sentenced former sacristan Johny Vattaparamban, 54, to life imprisonment for the 2018 murder of the rector of popular St Thomas Shrine at Malayattoor, in southern Kerala state. The court also imposed a fine of $1,321 on Vattaparamban, convicted of stabbing Fr Xavier Thelakkat on 1st March 2018, as he descended from the... Read More

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March 31, 2020

Stranded migrants, lack of food: in Indian lockdown, poor suffer

The three-week Covid-19 lockdown of India’s 1.37 billion people has stranded millions of domestic migrant workers and left people scrambling for food and other basics amid the ensuing harsh and often violent crackdown by police. “Especially when I look at my poor brothers and sisters, I definitely feel that they must be thinking, what kind... Read More

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