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India expels 86-year-old Spanish nun
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NEW DELHI (UCAN): The Indian government has refused to renew the visa of the 86-year-old Sister Enedina, from the Daughters of Charity, who has worked for the country’s poor for five decades. |
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Indian pilgrims attacked on the way to Marian shrine
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NEW DELHI (UCAN): Indian police arrested six suspected members of Hindu Munnani, a hardline Hindu group, for attacking 40 Catholics taking part in a 450-kilometre pilgrimage to a Marian shrine in Velankanni, in Tamil Nadu state. |
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Bishop upset with India lynching case acquittals
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NEW DELHI (UCAN): “The verdict is shocking and it pained me greatly,” Bishop Pius Thomas D’Souza of Ajmer in western India, said in reaction to the decision by a court in Alwar district of Rajasthan on August 14 to acquit six people accused of beating a 55-year-old Muslim man, Pehlu Khan, to death two years ago in a cow protection case |
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Churches in Mumbai open doors to flood victims
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NEW DELHI (UCAN): Catholic dioceses in flood-hit Mumbai, India, have opened their churches and institutions to accommodate thousands of people stranded in the city by heavy rain and flooded streets. |
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India’s Catholics vs human traffickers
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When Meenu (not her real name) was just 13-years-old, she was taken by her mother to a local agent in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh who was asked to help the young girl find a job to tide-over the poverty-stricken family. |
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Tougher penalties for cow-vigilante killings welcomed
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BHOPAL (UCAN): Archbishop Leo Cornelio of Bhopal, capital of Madhya Pradesh, India, applauded the state government’s plans for new punishments against vigilante-style violence, carried out to protect cows that are considered sacred by orthodox Hindus. |
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Help and hope in India for sufferers of Hansen’s Disease
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Bhopal (UCAN): At 66, Brunda Mohanty vividly remembers the painful situation when he left home as a 14-year-old boy. His mother had died early in his childhood and people in his ancestral village of Nirakarpur, in Puri district of India’s Odisha state, loved him so much. |
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Archbishop calls for action against rampant cow vigilantes
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BHOPAL (UCAN): “This kind of brutality is not acceptable in a civilised society,” Archbishop Leo Cornelio of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, said in reaction to new attacks by so-called cow vigilantes. |
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India’s minorities uneasy following recent elections
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NEW DEHLI (UCAN): “India wins again,” Narendra Modi, declared during a victory speech at the headquarters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the capital, New Delhi, in which he pledged to build “a new India” touting growth and prosperity for all. |
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More than a million spared from deadly cyclone
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NEW DELHI (UCAN): Cyclone Fani, which ripped through eastern India and sideswiped Bangladesh, left a trail of destruction and left more than 30 people dead. |
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