Church leaders in India have welcomed the Vatican's decision to add the feast of St. Teresa of Kolkata to the universal ...

Police in the southern Indian state of Kerala have launched a probe into complaint of a widow that a 37-year-old Catholic priest raped her after promising to marry her. Father Sebastian Nelson ...

Dalits are the class of people formerly known as “Untouchables” in the Hindu religion, which are the lowest class. Under ...

MEGHALAYA, India (RNS) — 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 ...

Dozens of Catholic families of the Nandagiri settlement in the remote Kandhamal district of eastern Odisha state in India said on Feb. 5 they were “thrilled” when 23 Catholic bishops from ...

Catholic Near East Welfare Association said the Trump administration’s slashing of USAID funds “will neither curtail nor ...

As Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Archbishop John Barwa introduced each bishop, the 300 Catholics in attendance offered loud applause.