![Deacon Santosh Kumar in Kalpahad parish.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/0501India_2-scaled.jpg)
INDIA: Seminarian ministering in dangerous jungle to be ordained priest
A brave Catholic seminarian who spent his pastoral placement ministering in India’s remote, cobra-infested jungle will be…
![Mass in Simdega Diocese, India.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/0328India-scaled.jpg)
INDIA: Attacks against Christians on the rise
The lives of Christians are under threat in 19 states in India, with the upcoming general…
![Parishioners in Kandhamal, Odisha.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/ACN-20170111-49893-scaled.jpg)
INDIA: Church rejoicing that martyrs now on road to sainthood
An Indian archbishop has expressed delight that the Vatican has opened the cause of canonisation of martyrs…
![Archbishop Dominic Lumon at the inauguration of the Divine Glory Prayer Tower in Senapati, Manipur.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0925India-e1695653791742.jpg)
INDIA: Violence still raging in Manipur
There is no end in sight for the violent conflict that erupted in north-east India in May,…
![The aftermath of an arson attack on St Paul’s Parish and Pastoral Training Centre in Sangaiprou, Imphal.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0824India-e1692879437588.jpg)
INDIA: 50,000 people displaced and 150 killed
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced and more than 150 died after hundreds of villages…
![Archbishop Dominic Lumon of Imphal](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0811India-scaled-e1691751493684.jpg)
INDIA: Manipur Archbishop – Pray for an end to the suffering
A Catholic archbishop in north-east India, who has seen his diocese at the centre of a wave…
![Arson attack on the Catholic-majority village Khopibung, Kangpokpi District. Manipur on 12th June – 44 houses were torched and the church was destroyed.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0720India-e1689858063288.jpeg)
INDIA: Fresh video highlights Manipur atrocities
The vicious persecution in India’s Manipur state – where hundreds of churches have been destroyed – has…
![The aftermath of an arson attack on St Paul’s Parish and Pastoral Training Centre in Manipur.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/0621India-1-e1687361601932.jpg)
INDIA: Hindutva nationalism to blame for violent clashes, bishop says
The ongoing violence in India’s Manipur state is part of a larger plan “to destabilise interreligious harmony”…
![Bishop Jude Arogundade (without mask), visiting a survivor of the attack on St Francis Xavier's Catholic Church.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1116International_2.jpg)
INTERNATIONAL/UK: Report shows persecution of Christians is getting worse
Jihadists and nationalists are driving increased persecution of Christians around the world – according to a report…
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INDIA: Christians in India seek protection from Hindutva government
Following a mob attack by right-wing extremists on a Catholic school, a leading cleric has said that…
![A small Christian community praying in a rural village in Sagar Diocese (© ACN)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1101India_2-scaled.jpg)
INDIA: Reconversion campaign terror
Christians in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are living in fear after radical Hindutva activists…
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INDIA: Nearly 200 COVID emergency projects approved
A Catholic charity has approved an aid package of nearly 200 projects to help Christian communities throughout…