Indonesia amends controversial mining law

Indonesia‘s parliament has passed a bill to revise the country’s mining law, allowing priority access to religious groups among others to mining areas. Religious organizations, through a business unit under their control, and small- to medium-sized businesses, can be granted permits for managing coal and mineral mines, according to the amended Mineral and Coal Mining … Read more

Eastern-rite Church hails Indian cardinal heading Vatican office

The head of the India-based Eastern-rite Syro Malabar Church has lauded the Vatican for appointing Cardinal George J. Koovakad as the new prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue. The Jan. 24 appointment of Koovakad, a member of the Eatsern-rite Church, is “a matter of great pride for his mother Church and the Indian Church,” said Major … Read more