On March 4, the president of the Indian Bishops' Conference (CBCI) received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine after inaugurating a designated vaccination center at the Holy Family Hospital in Bandra, Mumbai.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on March 1 rejected the plea of Christians to postpone the state elections in West Bengal and Assam that are scheduled to take place during the Holy Week.
A pastor was brutally beaten by tribal animists angered by his refusal to contribute money toward the ritual worship of tribal deities — yet police refused to punish the assailants.
A church in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district was vandalised, and a local pastor claims the incident was intended to inflame communal tensions.
"I hope and pray for more understanding from the international community, that they will be aware of the persecution and they will use their voice to ask the Indian government to take steps to protect the religious minorities, Christians included.”
A 20-year-old Christian in Odisha remains imprisoned after he was wrongly convicted of violating the state's anti-conversion law.
The secretary of the Laity Council of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) submitted a petition to the chief election commissioner urging him not to conduct state assembly elections and its proceedings in different states during the Holy Week observed by Christians.
Two Christians, one convicted and imprisoned and another seeking anticipatory bail, after being wrongly accused by radical nationalists of blaspheming Hinduism in Karnataka.
About three Christians in Jharkhand were seriously injured and 12 others were wrongly charged of various crimes after a mob of religious nationalists attacked and accused them of converting people to Christianity and building an illegal church in Meral village.
On Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, the archbishop of Mumbai shared a homily urging Christians to render their hearts to the Lord with interior mourning, penance and fasting.
Around eight radical Hindus invaded a Sunday worship meeting, beat the pastor and worshippers of the church, and demanded that the Christian congregation repeat the chant "Jai Shri Ram" in Harohalli, Karnataka.
The Catholic Church in Kerala is all set to build the first gas-based crematorium in Thrissur, predicting it would become an acceptable form of funeral among the Catholic community in the state.
