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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Nov. 23, 2024, in New Delhi, India. (Credit: Associated Press.)

Catholic bishops in India reject criticism of Modi’s Christmas visit to headquarters

Dec 25
Nirmala Carvalho

Relics of St. Francis Xavier. (Credit: Government of Goa.)

Relics of St. Francis Xavier shown in Goa, India

Nov 23
Nirmala Carvalho

In this Feb. 18, 2012 file photo, the then-elected cardinal George Alencherry, of India, center, is greeted by nuns after being elevated in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

New appointments in Syro-Malabar archdiocese unlikely to end liturgical conflict

Oct 15
Nirmala Carvalho

Clergy of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church process at the start of Mass in a suburb of New Delhi, India. (Credit: Anto Akkara/CNS.)

India advocate says discrimination against Dalit Catholics must be addressed in Synod

Oct 3
Nirmala Carvalho

A Waqf Board owned building in India. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Catholic groups in India support law weakening power of Islamic charity

Sep 28
Nirmala Carvalho

St. Philomena’s Cathedral in Mysore, India. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons.)

Ecumenical meeting in India expresses ‘anxiety’ over anti-Christian activities

Sep 19
Nirmala Carvalho

Pope Francis shakes hands with Indian Archbishop Raphael Thattil, the major archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly, during a meeting with bishops, priests and faithful from the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church at the Vatican May 13, 2024. (Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media.)

Syro-Malabar crisis in India not resolved by latest meeting with Pope

May 17
Nirmala Carvalho

Congress party treasurer Ajay Maken, left, speaks and displays the notice from Indian taxation authority as party president Mallikarjun Kharge, second right, and senior party leaders Sonia Gandhi, second left, and Rahul Gandhi listen during a press conference at their party headquarters in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 21, 2024. (Credit: Manish Swarup/AP.)

India’s bishops call for Day of Prayer and Fasting ahead of general elections

Mar 21
Nirmala Carvalho

A man stands on the shore of the Arabian Sea near a digger that’s part of a construction site for a new sea wall in the Chellanam area of Kochi, Kerala state, India on March 3, 2023. (Credit: AP Photo.)

Church in India protests attack on Catholic priest in Kerala

Feb 29
Nirmala Carvalho

Church in India remembers archbishop that guided Goa in uncertain times

Jul 7, 2022
Nirmala Carvalho