JRS keeps Afghanistan schools running despite missing director
Anto Akkara Catholic News Service Thrissur, India Jesuit Refugee Service is keeping half a dozen schools in troubled Afghanistan running despite no trace of its coordinator in Afghanistan, who was...
View ArticlePakistani Catholic: Church to appeal death penalty for blasphemy charge
Anto Akkara Catholic News Service Catholic leaders in Pakistan will appeal to their country's Supreme Court after a lower court upheld the death penalty for a blasphemy ruling against a Christian...
View ArticleSri Lankans work to finalize the little details for Pope Francis' visit
Anto Akkara Catholic News Service Francis in Sri Lanka Colombo, Sri Lanka Hours before Pope Francis was to arrive in Sri Lanka, people in Colombo were busy with final preparations for his "historic...
View ArticleIndian Christians arrested during protest outside New Delhi cathedral
Anto Akkara Catholic News Service Bangalore, India Church leaders criticized police manhandling of Christians who gathered Feb. 5 at the gate of Sacred Heart Cathedral in New Delhi to protest recent...
View ArticleInclement weather, logistical issues delay aid for Nepal quake victims
Anto Akkara Catholic News Service Kathmandu, Nepal Inclement weather and logistical pressures were delaying aid to hundreds of thousands of Nepalese earthquake victims."The logistical problems are...
View ArticleBleak Christmas faces church in quake-ravaged Nepal amid crippling blockade
Anto Akkara Catholic News Service Thrissur, India Catholics in Nepal are preparing for a bleak Christmas because of an economic blockade imposed by neighboring India. Supplies of fuel for vehicles,...
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Indian cardinal says religion should never be basis for citizenship
Thrissur, India 20191227T1059-0298-CNS-INDIA-RELIGION-CITIZENSHIP.jpg Demonstrators in Delhi, India, protest a new citizenship law Dec. 27, 2019. Opponents say new law targets Muslim refugees, unlike...
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Hospitals in India struggle as COVID-19 deaths hit record highs
Thrissur, India 20210426T0830-INDIA-COVID-CHURCH-1246603.JPG A woman is consoled by her relative outside a hospital in Ahmedabad, India, April 26, 2021, after her husband died from COVID-19...
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COVID-19 takes toll on Indian church leaders
Thrissur, India 20210507T1030-INDIA-COVID-CHURCH-1247325 copy.jpg People lower the body of a man who died of COVID-19 into a grave at a cemetery May 3 in Ahmedabad, India. (CNS/Amit Dave, Reuters)...
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Indian Jesuit imprisoned on 'terrorism charges' dies in hospital
Thrissur, India 20210706T1045-OBIT-SWAMY-1251445 c.jpg Jesuit Fr. Stan Swamy, pictured in a screenshot, who had been jailed on dubious terrorism charges since October, died July 5 at Holy Family...
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