Dr Kenneth V. Dodgson, the American medical missionary who spent nearly a quarter of a century at the Jorhat Christian Medical Centre (JCMC) in Assam, passed away on 12 July at the age of 100, four months after his birth centenary celebrations.
Rev. Khoda Tana, a founding-generation figure of the Christian faith among the Nyishi, the largest tribal community in Arunachal Pradesh, died on July 11 of natural causes. He was 82.
A heavy flood struck Parsi Parlo Town in Kurung Kumey district of Arunachal Pradesh around 1 a.m. on Monday, 13 July, devastating the Parsi Parlo Town Baptist Church and the Parsi Parlo Prayer House of the Nyishi Baptist Church Council (NBCC), and sweeping away a Catholic church an hour later, as flash floods crippled the remote border town and cut off road connectivity to the district headquarters.
Christian denominations across India came together on Sunday, 28 June, to observe a National Day of Prayer and Fasting against the proposed Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, with the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI) and the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI) all calling on their members to take part, alongside the Joint Action Forum on Minorities (JAFM), which coordinated the day at a national level.
The Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI) held a service of thanksgiving, farewell and commissioning at the EFI Northeast Centre at Guwahati today, honouring the service of Rev. T. P. Mordecai and commissioning Rev. Dr. Aowabang Ozüküm as the new Associate Secretary for Northeast India.
St Stephen’s College will proceed with the appointment of Professor Susan Elias as its 14th principal on June 1, relying on its status as a Christian minority institution even as the University of Delhi has asked it to halt the process.
The Baptist Church in West Garo Hills has offered its premises in Tura for a government rehabilitation centre, as Meghalaya’s anti-drug mission steps up efforts to tackle the state’s growing substance abuse crisis in partnership with faith-based institutions.
Christians from across Bastar division packed City Ground in Jagdalpur on April 13, marched through the town in a show of defiance, and submitted a memorandum addressed to the Governor and the President of India
On December 20, in the Archdiocese of Pondicherry-Cuddalore, Dalit Christians held a protest against the discrimination they faced in 45 Catholic parishes demanding equal rights for their group in the Church.
Hardline Hindus have petitioned the authorities in India to stop Christians from celebrating Christmas.
A pastor from Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district was shot dead by unidentified assailants while travelling back home on December 8 with his wife on a motorcycle.
The Supreme Court of India agreed to hear the petition of the members of the Malankara Orthodox Church in Kerala to prohibit the annual mandatory sacramental confession to a priest claiming that the practice breached the privacy and dignity of individuals.
