India

The Rev. Vipin Kumar was held in custody for eight hours. Far-right thugs interrupted a prayer gathering. The accusations of forced conversions "are used to intimidate India’s tiny Christian community".

Christ's driving the merchants from the temple warns against the temptation to take advantage of good activities for private, and even illicit interests and helps us "to reject the danger of making of our soul, which is the abode of God, a market place, living in the continuous search for our own interests instead of generous and supportive love".

A decree establishes its insertion into the general Roman calendar. The celebration now decided by Francis "will help us to remember that growth in the Christian life must be anchored to the Mystery of the Cross, to the oblation of Christ in the Eucharistic Banquet and to the Mother of the Redeemer and Mother of the Redeemed, the Virgin who makes her offering to God".

A circular letter from the foreign secretary. The 60th anniversary of the Lhasa uprising is commemorated at the end of March. "Delicate moment in relations between India and China". A second note clarifies that the leader of Tibetan Buddhism is "free to conduct religious activities in India".

The visit to WCC headquarters will include an ecumenical prayer, a special session of the Central Committee to mark the anniversary, and an address by the pope. Francis will be the third pontiff to visit the organisation after Paul VI on 10 June 1969 and John Paul II on 12 June 1984.

Father Xavier Thelekat was the rector of the church of Kuruishmala. The former employee Jomy was fired three months ago. The attacker is missing. The faithful "shocked" by the terrible murderous act.

The letter can be bought for US$ 50,000 from the Raab Collection. It is dated 1926 and belonged to a private collection until the 1960s. In it the Mahatma says that Christ "was one of the great teachers of mankind".

A Letter from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith reaffirms that salvation consists in our union with Christ, God and man. A rejection of " individualism centered on the autonomous subject ", whose "realization depends only on its strength" of neo-Pelagianism and the "merely interior" salvation of neo-Gnosticism.

Letter from the Vatican Secretary of State to a congress on palliative care. "Palliative care proves, within clinical practice, the awareness that the limit demands not only to be fought and moved, but also recognized and accepted. And this means not abandoning sick people, but rather being close to them and accompanying them in the difficult test that makes itself present at the end of life".

At the general audience, Francis appeals again for Syria: "We must pray for these brothers and sisters" who are suffering for the war "and for the Christians who are persecuted, they want to drive them away".

The human rights group just released its annual report on the state of the world's human rights. In India, the authorities have been openly critical of human rights defenders. Mass violence has intensified, including by the cow vigilante groups.

Representing the two communities, Mgr Justin Bernard Gnanapragasam and Mgr Raymond Kingsley Wickramasinghe concelebrated the solemn Mass. The Sri Lankan Navy organised the feast, including meals, shelters for pilgrims and temporary piers for their boats.