More than a month after Hindu nationalist groups in India targeted two Christian congregations on Easter, the churches remain shut while awaiting police action, sources said. The Hindu extremists ...

Inspired by Pope Leo XIV's Dilexit te, the Church in India leverages its grassroots connections with marginalized communities ...

Editor's Note: This story has been updated. KOCHI, India — Despite efforts by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to woo the crucial Christian voters ...

Clergy of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church process at the start of Mass in a suburb of New Delhi, India. (Credit: Anto Akkara/CNS.) Listen MUMBAI, India – As bishops around the world meet at the ...

Though the Catholic Church in India is known for its prompt support for the victims of natural or man-made calamities, it has been struggling against heavy odds to provide relief even to its own ...

The Syro-Malabar Church announced a significant leadership change on Saturday as Archbishop Joseph Pamplany was appointed vicar of the major archbishop for the Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly. With ...

Unease is rippling through India's small Christian community as vandals mar church property and raise fears that Hindu fundamentalists have interpreted government silence as a green light to pursue a ...

After 26 years as a nun, Jesme Raphael gave up her robes and walked out of the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel, the Catholic order in Kerala, India, that had been her home for three decades. Two ...

Hundreds of thousands of Indian Catholics are petitioning the government to improve living conditions there. The Syro-Malabar Catholic Congress presented Kerala state Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan ...

Eight days before Christmas last year, Senseful Dkhar, a 55-year-old schoolteacher, led her fellow Catholics in prayer at a small village church in the northeastern corner of India, where the terrain ...

A recent incident where a trainee nun has been accused of killing her newborn has not only shaken the Catholic Church in India but highlighted an "urgent need" to revise the way religious are formed, ...