The Vatican has appointed a new bishop for India’s Jalandhar diocese in Punjab, four years after Bishop Franco Mulakkal stepped down despite a court clearing him of charges of raping a nun. The ...

Police on Tuesday charged an Indian bishop with repeatedly raping a nun at a rural convent in a case that has cast a new shadow on the Roman Catholic church's global sex abuse crisis. Franco Mulakkal ...

An Indian bishop accused of raping a nun was refused bail Saturday, and ordered to remain in police custody to face questioning in a case that has triggered outrage among clergy. Bishop Franco ...

In 2018, Sister Ranit Pallassery, a former superior general of the Missionaries of Jesus (MJ), a diocesan religious order, accused her then-bishop, Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar diocese in northern ...

Sister Ranit, who accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal of sexual assault, reveals her identity to media as the appeal against his ...