church crimes

On Tuesday, a complaint was lodged by a nun with the Kerala Women's Commission alleging mental harassment in connection with the case concerning rape accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal.

15-year-old Happy Debbarma was brutally beaten up for opposing forceful religious conversion to Christianity.

After suspecting financial irregularities, an investigation was launched by Vatican police and raids were conducted at the offices of the Holy See’s Secretariat of State and its Financial Information Authority or AIF.

The petition to take action against sexual abuse by the clergy was filed by Savio Rodrigues and R. Joseph Kennedy.

The crime came to light after one of the three children reported the incident to her school teacher.

Key witness Adakka Raju testified before a special court here that he had seen two men including Father Thomas Kottoor in the St Pius X convent compound in Kottayam on the day when the Sister Abhaya was found murdered in the well of the convent. 

With pressure began to mount, Justice Vaidyanathan had to agree to delete the relevant paragraph from his verdict in a case.

Sister Lucy Kalapurakkal had last year supported the victim nun and had demanded the arrest of rape-accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who headed the Roman Catholic Diocese in Jalandhar.  

Sister Anupama, one of the five nuns who led the protests against Franco on August 2018, expressed her fear over sabotaging the case after a local court in Pala, Kerala found irregularities in the copies of the cyber forensic report submitted in a DVD by the police and laboratory. 

Christian news portal UCAN claimed that the Missionaries of Charity nun was being denied bail due to sectarian hatred and political pressure from the BJP government.