Bernard Digal News Today

What resonates in everyone's heart is how ordinary people manifest unwavering religious convictions, standing by their faith, facing death, alienation from their family and village, and enduring the loss of land, property and comfort alike.

Amid the horrific massacre, Father Bernard Digal was an inspiring shepherd to his people.

In a development that has been welcomed by the Christian community of India and particularly the state of Odisha, the Vatican has granted approval to initiate the beatification process for 35 Christians who were martyred for their faith during the 2008 anti-Christian violence in Kandhamal, Odisha.

The road is now clear for the beatification process for 35 Catholic martyrs from Kandhamal who embraced martyrdom in 2008

The Vatican has granted approval to initiate the beatification process for 35 Christians who were martyred for their faith during the 2008 anti-Christian violence in Kandhamal, India.

Photos of martyred Christians at a public event in Bhubaneswar in 2010. / Credit: Anto Akkara Bangalore, India, Oct 26, 2023 / 13:05 pm (CNA). The Church in India has welcomed the news that the Vatican will initiate the beatification process fo...

Kandhamal district, 150-250 miles southwest of the Odisha capital, Bhubaneswar, witnessed the worst anti-Christian violence in modern times beginning in Augus...

NEW DELHI (RNS) — The Kandhamal riots of 2008 stand out as a watershed moment in India’s history of mass violence against minorities. A Catholic priest who survived them wants to bring faith leaders together to get past that history.

by Nirmala Carvalho “There was so much happiness in people. After so many months without the sacraments and prayers in churches, they were able to come, visibly happy with great participation”. Mumbai (AsiaNews) – “Christmas was wonderful. Emmanuel-God with us, God came to dwell with the little people of Kandhamal, Jesus was born for us,” said Father Prados ( picture 2), pastor of Our Lady of Charity Catholic Church, in Raikia, a town in Kandhamal district (Odisha), speaking to AsiaN...