Anna Chiara Filice

The PIME regional superior manages St. Vincent Hospital in Dinajpur. A special meal will be offered to all patients, students and medical staff. Even the hospital "changes appearance" during Christmas. A retreat "to prepare spiritually".

The event, part of lead up to May 2019 elections, will be held from January 15 to March 4, 2019. The place chosen is Prayagraj, new name of the city of Allahabad. Hindu holy man Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of the state, was the face of the election campaign recently lost by Bharatiya Janata Party.

The government wants to encourage the adoption of abandoned children. Only Indian couples who have been married for at least five years will be able to resort to assisted fertilization and surrogate mothers must be relatives of the parents. Poor regulation has made India the world capital of rented wombs.

Ambrogio Bongiovanni teaches interreligious dialogue at the Urbaniana University and mission theology at the San Luigi campus of the Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Meridionale. In the last 30 years, India’s population almost doubled. Economic growth this year will be 7.7 per cent. The problem is that we cannot redistribute wealth because markets reduce people to the status of “mere consumers”.

The request comes from the Protestant Christian group Persecution Relief. The secretary general of the Catholic bishops condemns the desecration of the church in Assam. In India religious freedom is guaranteed by Article 25 of the Constitution.

The school has been accused of raising fees in 2016. The school has been open for 48 years and the Indian Constitution grants it the power of self-regulation. Children will be transferred to public schools. The “goal is to control minority schools.”

The new parish will be built in Kadu Banga, Diocese of Bagdogra, home to 400 Catholic families, where people work in a state of virtual slavery on tea plantations. The task of the new pastor will be to "make them grow in faith" and “restore their human dignity”.

Qaisar and Amoon Ayub have been in Jhelum Jail since 2015. The sentence was read in prison for security reasons. Their lawyer, this could be another Asia Bibi case.

The event is set for tomorrow. Bible readings and Gospel-inspired hymns will accompany the mandatory national anthem. A choir from a leprosy group will sing a special "Hallelujah". Christians represent over 87 per cent of the State’s population.

Some six million students attend Quranic schools, both private and government-sponsored. Educating orphans is one positive aspect of madrasas. However, the "sanctification of the Quran” without “real theological explanations” is a risk. Graduates tend to become wives who are "docile” and “conservative in how they live their beliefs."

Elections were held in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana and Mizoram. Congress came in first in States that are key in the next Union general elections in 2019. Rural dissatisfaction played a crucial role.

Mgr Anil JT Couto released a video message for Catholics in his diocese. He calls on them to wait for the coming of Christ, to forgive "not only seven times, but seventy times seven", and recognise the Lord "in the poor, the downtrodden, the marginalised, the hungry, the naked, the prisoners".