The Delhi high court has directed Organiser magazine to remove from its website an "offending" and prima facie "defamatory" article with allegations of sexual intimacy and exploitation of nuns and Hindu women associated with a church by the principal of a Christian minority school in New Delhi.
She alleged that by continuing in the position of Jalandhar diocese Bishop, Franco Mulakkal and his close associates "are using the wealth of the diocese to divert" the course of the police investigation.
Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun several times between 2014 and 2016, is currently out on bail.
Sister Lucy Kalappura, one of the nuns who protested against rape-accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal, in her autobiography titled 'Karthaavinte Naamathil' (In the name of the Lord) writes that even church leaders who supported the sisters, the victims of sexual abuse, have now started supporting the accused.
In a jubilant moment for the Christian community in India, two beatified candidates from Kerala Fr Kuriakose Elias Chavara and Sister Euphrasia will be conferred sainthood by Pope Francis at Vatican on Sunday.
The usual calm and demure Pope on Tuesday showed a rare sign of anger during his trip to Mexico after a crowd pulled his arm and caused him to topple onto a wheelchair-man in front of him.
"We should understand how secularism gives birth to extremism by looking at the growth of conservative racist movements in the West. The situation of India will not be different if we fail to accept Indian secularism in its literal sense," the Bishop wrote in Church's mouthpiece Deepika.
The nun belongs to the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.
The protest led by the nuns and Catholic reformist forums in Kochi in September had led to a public outrage and demands for action against the bishop.
A Christian school was allegedly vandalised in South Delhi's Vasant Vihar area
As the prosecution failed to produce evidence against the accused, the Additional District and Sessions Court II acquitted the Bishop.
As Christians took to streets of Delhi over recent attacks on churches, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday promised to step up security at their religious places amid his assertion that any discrimination on the basis of religion will not be tolerated.
'People in Rome are becoming more and more aware that there's a problem of John Kerry,' the US Democratic presidential candidate said.
The National Tawheed Jamath is suspected of plotting the deadly Easter blasts.
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A 69-year-old Catholic nun was found dead in her convent room at Pala near Kottayam on Thursday morning, police said.
The Vatican officially declared its intention to defeat the Church of England on Tuesday - not in a theological re-match nearly 500 years after they split, but on the cricket pitch.
Over 100 Christians have been arrested for allegedly being part of a mob that lynched two men after Taliban suicide attacks on two churches.
Policemen in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri town went on a round-the-clock vigil after a missionary school received four handwritten letters in Hindi
'All those who participated in the agitation were branded as anti-nationals.'
Meanwhile, a three-member committee appointed to probe the attacks that killed 258 people, including 11 Indians, on Monday submitted its final report to President Maithripala Sirisena.
Scores of members of the Christian community and social activists staged a protest outside the Delhi Police headquarters in New Delhi on Tuesday morning over alleged the police inaction in the case of the fire which on Monday gutted a church in northeast Delhi's Tahirpur area.
At a crowded beachfront mass, Pope Francis canonised Sri Lanka's first saint on Wednesday.
The vote swept aside the opposition of the Roman Catholic Church.
A top Catholic functionary arrived West Bengal's Ranaghat to express solidarity with the sister superior of a convent school, who was allegedly gang-raped on Saturday.
The Additional Sessions Court Judge read out to Mulakkal, who was present in the court, the charges under various sections of the Indian Penal Code including the punishment for offence for rape as it commenced trial proceedings in the sensational case.
Though Beijing asserts the Dalai Lama's successor needs its approval, observers say it remains concerned as the present Panchen Lama, the number two spiritual leader who was appointed by it after unseating the boy nominated by the Dalai Lama, has not gained much traction in Tibet.
"The police is being forceful," said Father Dominic, who joined the protests.
-- Seven suicide bombers believed to be members of an Islamist extremist group carried out the series of explosions. -- Police have so far arrested 24 people - mostly members of an Islamist extremist group - in connection with the blasts
Filipino Manny Pacquiao has sparked criticism in his country after describing gay couples as 'worse than animals'.
The court cancelled his bail, considering the prosecution argument that the accused was trying to delay the trial, and posted the case to August 13.
Five people, including the priest, two nuns and two parishioners were held by the assailants who raided the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen in Normandy on Tuesday.
'Marriage brings families together and Hetavi worked hard to fit into ours without causing any kind of disruption,' says Melwyn Coelho.
According to police, no visible injury marks were found on the body of the priest.
The mass marked the high point of the first papal visit to the Arabian peninsula.
A Dubai-based Indian couple had a narrow escape in the Sri Lanka blasts.
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