In late March, a group of residents looked on in shock as earthmoving machinery cleared a plot of land diagonally opposite the Basilica of Bom Jesus, a 400-year-old Basilica that contains the sacred ...
About 700 people, mostly Catholics, marched through Old Goa, the colonial-era Portuguese capital, to protest a government plan for a tourism project near the Bom Jesus Basilica, the 16th-century ...