The once-in-three-year meeting of some 400 superiors of women congregations working across India will take place early next year to discuss challenges their members face. Read more...

Holy Spirit Sister Karuna Maniyattu, the new director of Social Concerns of Conference of Religious India (CRI), says her experience of working among Orissa’s riot victims would help her in the new job. Read more...

The Nagaland unit of Conference of Religious India has condemned the demolition of a Catholic Church in a village in the state allegedly by Baptists, who have banned other denominations in the village. Read more...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has sought to reassure the local Catholic bishop over the future of a Dutch missioner facing expulsion from India. Read more...

Women Religious in India have slammed a recent Vatican document equating women’s ordination with sexual abuse of children, calling it “derogatory” and “shocking.” Read more...

The body of a 24-year-old Catholic nun was found in the well of her convent in a village in Goa on July 26, police said. Handmaids of Christ Sister Dipti Brahmane is believed to have committed suicide by jumping into the well. Read more...

A hospice that Sisters of Queen of Apostles started almost five years ago in Mangalore is changing the perception of death-bed service, say nuns attached to it. Read more...

Teaching music to young people for better liturgy has become the mission of Sister Gracelet Mudiyappan, a member of the Pius Disciples of the Divine Master congregation. . Read more...

Dominican Father Paul Nguyen Thai Hop, who fled his native Vinh to go to the south as a refugee over 50 years ago, has returned home as the new bishop of Vietnam’s most populous diocese. Read more...

Columban Father Shay Cullen, well known for his work with poor and disadvantaged children in the Philippines, is pleading with Western consumers to opt for fair trade products.  ... Read more...