Saji Thomas

"Today we have a platform to share our problems without fear of retribution," said one of the nuns who attended a training on the Grievance Redressal Cell, an initiative of the Conference of Religious Women India.

With the majority of India's sisters older than 60, congregations are looking into how to accommodate their elderly sisters and equip underprepared communities.

For the past 25 years, Sr. Sheeba Jose has brought hope for persecuted Christians, abandoned women and prisoners languishing in jails in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. 

"It is better to be late than never": The resignation of Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal has brought some relief to supporters of the nun who accused him of rape. But the legal appeal continues and questions remain.

Catholics in the Indian state of Kerala are demanding a ban on a controversial play one sister calls "a deliberate attempt to target and tarnish Catholic women religious, who do immense services for humanity."

Sr. Remya Thomas has become a harbinger of hope for poor jobless youth in Odisha state in eastern India. St. Joseph's Community College, managed by her congregation, finds them jobs after imparting skill training.

Sr. Ambika Pillai has been key in developing and operating a home for runaway children, since it began in 2003. A 2017 accident resulted in the amputation of most of her leg, but in 2022 she resumed her work at the home.

Catholic nuns in India lament the development of what they consider an unnecessary controversy — one that equates their veil with the hijab, which is banned in academic institutions in the state of Karnataka.

A book narrating a legal battle by six nuns with an archdiocese over a decades-long property dispute exposes the underbelly of the church hierarchy, say people who have followed the case.

The prosecution formally appeals acquittal of an Indian bishop, Franco Mulakkal, in a 2018 rape case. The appeal claims the trial court downplayed the evidence the Catholic sister and witnesses provided.

Weeks after a not-guilty verdict was pronounced in favor of Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal, assessments raise questions of fairness, influence and progress in the church's response to abuse accusations.

A court in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala Jan. 14 acquitted Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar in the historic case of the rape of a nun, saying the prosecution failed to prove the charges against him.

With the high-profile trial of a bishop accused of raping a nun 13 times nearing the end, an Indian high court overruled a move to transfer the judge. Critics had called the transfer highly unusual and some alleged that Catholic Church leaders had lobbied for the change. 

When people with COVID-19 symptoms thronged a five-bed clinic in Chachana village, India, the Carmelite nurses there scurried to fashion an open-air clinic with donated cots and tents to handle the overflow.

The nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has been enacting increasingly strict laws in states where it rules, making religious minorities — Muslims and Christians — targets of suspicion, detention and interrogation.

In the face of pressure and threats, sister supporters of the nun who has accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal of rape are among 83 witnesses testifying in the ongoing trial in Kottayam, Kerala state, in India.

Sr. Sneha Joseph has been honored as a COVID-19 Warrior by the governor of Maharashtra state in India, recognizing her donations of plasma to treat poor COVID-19 patients after her own recovery.

The death of Divya John, labeled a probable suicide, is the latest in nearly 20 others since 1987 involving novices and sisters serving in Kerala state. Some Catholics are urging Indian bishops to take action.

A Catholic nun, who two years ago accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar of rape, started giving her testimony Wednesday in a district court in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala.

Two years after a Catholic sister accused a bishop of rape and intimidation, the official trial started Thursday, Aug. 13, as a district court judge read the charges aloud to Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar.