A Catholic woman was wounded when some unidentified people tried to disrupt a Maundy Thursday service in Mangalore, southern India. A large number of parishioners were present at St Sebastian Church when the incident occurred at 8:30 p.m. on April 5.

A group of miscreants threw stones from outside the church campus near Bendorewell circle.One of the stones hit a parishioner, Claret Pinto, 46, who was hospitalized with head injuries.  read more »

Mangalore diocese says it will challenge a recent government inquiry clearing Karnataka state authorities and Hindu extremists of involvement in attacks on Christians in 2008.“We will communicate our protest to the president and prime minister,” Bishop Aloysius Paul D’Souza of Mangalore said Feb. 2.  read more »