Top Vatican Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has warned against “fake messengers” as he joined some 15,000 Catholics for the feast Mass of St. Francis Xavier in India’s Goa state, where the saint’s relics ...

As dawn broke over the historic Basilica of Bom Jesus on Dec. 3, waves of pilgrims — families, youth groups, elderly devotees, and visitors from across India and abroad — streamed into Old Goa, the ...

St. Francis Xavier lived the life of a missionary, baptizing tens of thousands in India and Japan. In death, he continues to give himself to Christ’s Church, as his relics offer pilgrims spiritual ...

MUMBAI, India – Pilgrims have flocked to see the relics of St. Francis Xavier in India. Every decade, the relics of the Jesuit saint are exposed in the Indian state of Goa – this year’s exposition ...

India has seen a surge in Hindu nationalism and violence against Christians in recent years, especially in places governed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata ...

MUMBAI, India – A delegation of nine representatives from the Vatican participated in the ten-yearly exposition of the sacred relics of St. Francis Xavier in Old Goa in India. The delegation included ...

Goa: Protests erupted in Old Goa on Sunday against Subhash Velingkar, former chief of RSS’s state unit, over his comment about Goa’s patron saint St Francis Xavier. Velingkar called for a “DNA test” ...

Police in the Indian state of Goa are on the hunt for a Hindu man who allegedly publicly disrespected St. Francis Xavier and disputed the saint’s title as protector of the state, leading to complaints ...