Nirmala Carvalho

For the director of the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, Beijing is using “cultural genocide” and “birth controls” to silence the Tibetan people. If China does not change, 2012 will be bad “for the human rights of the Tibetan people”.

The same punishment goes for anyone who consumes, preserves or transforms the meat of cows, Hinduism’s sacred animal. Now police have the power to inspect any place where the offense might “be committed”. For Bhopal bishop, the new law is a way to legalise Hindu radical violence against untouchables and religious minorities.

Three occurred on December 28 in different areas of the state, the fourth in the evening of the 25. With these number of attacks in Karnataka in 2011 rises to 49. Sajan George, "The Hindu radicals violate the human dignity of the Christian population."

Card. Oswald Gracias, president of the Bishops' Conference of India, on the feast of Holy Innocents. Feticide and female infanticide, anti-Christian persecution and corruption destroy Christ and human life.

In 2011, 170 anti-Christian attacks at the hands of Hindu extremists. Murder, mutilation, destroyed churches, burned Bibles and desecrated graves the most common episodes. The President of the Global Council of Indian Christians: "The crib is the essence of Christmas, and all the houses are small cribs. The sanctity of the family must be protected ".

The plastics multinational Dow Chemicals will not appear on the billboards of the Olympic stadium in London, whose value is circa 7 million pounds (8.3 million euros). Satisfaction of athletes, politicians and NGOs opposed to the sponsor. According to Lenin Raghuvanshi, human rights activist, it is important to "create consumer awareness, the true agent of change in the event of unethical policies."

A couple of doctors and their support staff ran the racket. According to India’s 2011 census, the country’s sex ratio is just 940 females per 1000 males, more skewed in cities than in rural areas. According to a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, men will outnumber women by 20 per cent in 20 years.

Choirs from eight parishes in the Mumbai Archdiocese took part in the event, which is at its eight edition. For the president of the International Federation of Pueri Cantores, sacred music can be a tool of evangelisation in India.

On the occasion of World Day for Human Rights, the Archbishop of Mumbai speaks of Indian society and the commitment of the Catholic world. Recalling that human rights must be based on the teachings of the Gospel: that God is our Father and that all Indians are brothers and sisters that we are all made in the image and likeness of God.

The 79-year-old Dutch missionary was almost expelled twice before from the state where he has lived for the past 48 years. Sharia courts have no jurisdiction on non-Muslims, but many fear a repeat of what happened to Rev K. M. Khanna, an Anglican clergyman who was summoned by a Sharia court, then arrested on allegations of forced conversions.

On 13-14 January, Mumbai will host Entreprenet 2012, a world convention organised by Dimensions and Kanara Entrepreneurs Global, two Christian organisations, to discuss human rights, finance, business development, technology and customer relations to boost India’s growth and development.

In an interview with AsiaNews, Ram Puniyani, Convenor of the National People’s Tribunal, talks about the latter’s report on the 2008 anti-Christian pogroms. For him, the issue was not religious but the political use of poverty among Hindu Adivasi and Christian Dalits by Hindu fundamentalists.