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Police accused of ignoring attack in university

NEW DELHI (UCAN): Police in India have been accused of failing to intervene when alleged…

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Doubts around India hosting Asian Youth Day in 2021

DEHLI (UCAN): Father Chetan Machado, secretary for the Youth Council of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference…

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India’s top court rejects redefinition of religious minorites

BHOPAL (UCAN):  Christian leaders in India welcomed the rejection by the country’s Supreme Court of…

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Indian state’s Christmas gesture welcomed

NEW DELHI (UCAN): Christian leaders have welcomed a move by Telangana state in southern India,…

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Anti-conversion bill dismays Indian Church leaders

‘First of all, the Catholic Church does not promote or propagate religious conversions and until now there has been no record of any religious conversions in which the Church has been involved in Uttar Pradesh’ – Bishop Gerald John Mathias of Lucknow

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