Bihar

One day, in prayer, I whispered to Jesus, “I hope you have taken my mother to heaven.”

Several Christians were injured when members of the Bajrang Dal, a Hindu right-wing group, attacked a Sunday prayer gathering at a pastor’s residence in Katihar district, in the central state of Bihar, on August 10, amid allegations of religious conversion activities, The Indian Express reported.

The Jesuit Youth Ministry of South Asia, in collaboration with the Patna Jesuit Youth Commission, has a five-day Youth Animation Training Program from May 4-9, 2025, at Atmadarshan, Patna, capital of the eastern Indian state of Bihar.

The Our Lady of Divine Grace Shrine in Mokama, part of the Archdiocese of Patna, has been officially declared a Minor Basilica in a grand ceremony on January 24, 2025, Bihar, India

The Patna-based NGO organized task force training from June 21 to 23 under the Global Programme project. The aim was to establish disaster response teams at the village level.

The only Catholic-run Institute of Management and Technology in Bihar state in eastern India, marked 10 years of its existence as it celebrated its annual day on May 21, 2022.

A lay Catholic organization in Patna, the capital of North India’s Bihar state, held an outreach program for the needy.

The annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Grace in Mokama, in Bihar state in eastern India, has been cancelled for the first time due to the covid-19 restrictions imposed by the Bihar government. The event takes place on the first Sunday of February and was to be held on February 6.
Dharmendar Yadav, popularly known as Dharmendar Mukhiya, is distraught. Like the hundreds of regulars who make the annual pilgrimage from Patna, the Bihar capital, to Mokama, he will not be able to get a 'darshan' (face-to-face encounter) with his 'mata' (mother) on this auspicious day.

Metropolitan Archbishop of Patna, Sebastian Kallupura, in a letter to all Church dignitaries in Bihar and neighbouring states, has officially cancelled the annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Grace, Mokama, citing the covid-19 restrictions imposed by the Bihar government. The event was slated for February 6.

A leading Jesuit college in India's Bihar state has given its prestigious 'Pride of Bihar' award to an illiterate Dalit man who single-handedly dug a five-kilometer canal over rocky terrain to improve the water table of his village.

As the people of Bihar, India's third largest state, reel under the twin misfortunes of post COVID-19 instability and the onslaught of floods caused by heavy monsoons, the social action centers of the Archdiocese of Patna are on a mission of giving aid to the most affected.