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Kerala catholic priest, sentenced to 20-yr of imprisonment for raping mino
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], July 15 (ANI): Former catholic priest Robin Vadakkumchery on Wednesday approached the Kerala High Court seeking permission to marry the girl, whom he had raped when she was minor.
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Priest in Kerala suspended by Vatican for raping minor in 2016
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], Mar 1 (ANI): Catholic priest, Robin Vadakkumchery, who had served Syro Malabar Church in Kerala has been expelled from priesthood by the Vatican, media cell of Archdiocese of Mananthavady in Wayanad district said on Sunday.
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Argentina: 2 priests sentenced to over 40 years in prison in sexual abuse
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Buenos Aires [Argentina], Nov 26 (ANI): An Argentine court on Monday sentenced two Roman Catholic priests to more than 40 years in prison for sexually abusing deaf children at a Catholic high-school.
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Kerala: Catholic priests call off hunger strike
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], July 21 (ANI): A section of the priests of Archdiocese of Angamaly and Ernakulam have called off their hunger strike, Father Kuriakose Mundadan, secretary of the Presbyteral Council, said.
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Kerala priest jailed for raping minor girl
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Feb 16 (ANI): A local court in Kerala on Saturday awarded 20 years of rigorous imprisonment to a Catholic priest for raping and impregnating a minor girl in Kannur district during 2016.
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Delhi HC dismisses plea seeking CBI or SIT probe into allegations of sexua
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 29 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed the PIL seeking directions to the Centre and Delhi state to hold a thorough investigation in the incidents of sexual abuses of children and nuns by catholic clergies, by a SIT or Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
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Catholic Churches yet to overcome sexual abuse of minors: German Cardinal
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Fulda [Germany], Sept 25 (ANI): A new study on sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests under the domain of German Bishops' Conference indicates that the problem remains largely unresolved and more than 50 per cent of the accused go unpunished.
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Kerala Nun Rape: Vatican removes Bishop Mulakkal
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 20 (ANI): Senior Catholic priest, Franco Mulakkal, has been temporarily relieved of his pastoral duties by Pope Francis.
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Rape accused Bishop being questioned for second day
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], Sep 20 (ANI): Catholic priest of Jalanadhar diocese, Franco Mulakkal, who allegedly raped a Kerala nun, appeared before a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Kerala police for the second day on Thursday.
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Rape accused Jalandhar bishop appears before SIT
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], Sep 19 (ANI): Senior Catholic priest Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who allegedly raped a nun, appeared for questioning before a special investigation team (SIT) of the Kerala police here.
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Do not carry minority complex, we are all Indians: Top Catholic priest
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 24 (ANI): President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI), Cardinal Oswald Gracias, on Thursday urged the minority communities not to carry the minority complex, saying, "We are all Indians and all Indians have equal rights and all the Indians live tog
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MP: Catholic priest arrested, 40 others detained for alleged forced conver
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Satna (Madhya Pradesh) [India], December 15 (ANI): A Catholic priest was arrested while 40 others were detained on charges of forced religious conversion of a group of people from Hinduism to Christianity on Friday in Madhya Pradesh's Satna district.
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