Aug. 23 marked the 15th anniversary of one of the worst Christian persecutions in Indian history: the Kandhamal bloodshed in the eastern state of Odisha in which nearly 100 people were brutally killed ...

(Reuters) - A Roman Catholic nun, Sister Alphonsa, will become India's first woman saint on Sunday when she is canonized by Pope Benedict at the Vatican. Coming amid some of the worst anti-Christian ...

How a social reformer, a lawyer, a doctor, and a peacemaker changed the subcontinent. Women in India have endured often harsh and cruel lives in a society which has long favored boys to girls, ...

The Uniform Civil Code seeks “one nation, one law” to govern citizens’ personal lives, but religious minorities fear hidden costs. In February, the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand passed a ...

Vocations are growing among youth who spent days and months in jungles and refugee camps during the prolonged persecution. L to R: Convert Bijay Kumar Pradhan stands outside of Christ Church Piserama; ...

In the mid-20th century, ecumenism was a lively topic of debate within Protestant churches. As so often in Christian history, some of the boldest and most innovative experiments occurred on the ...

The violence that has wracked India’s eastern state of Orissa over the past few days seems, at first glance, to be purely religious. On Christmas Eve and Christmas day, Hindu nationalists in the ...

It takes a brave author to write this kind of history, where every chapter, in some cases every sentence, requires passing through territory that has been analyzed, debated, deconstructed and ...