By Ram Puniyani New Delhi, Jan 25, 2020: During last couple of decades we have been witnessing the coming up of various statues in different parts of the country. There is diverse political logic and different set of political tendencies for erecting these statues. When Mayawati was Uttar Pradesh chiefContinue Reading
It is more than 20 years since a Pope set foot in India. In 1999, an ailing Pope John Paul II made what reporters called a “tense” visit to the capital, New Delhi. The 79-year-old pontiff made a strong defense of religious freedom during his 62-hour trip. “In the duskContinue Reading
By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore, Jan 20, 2020: A good number of English newspapers reported on January 20 the marriage of a Hindu couple in a mosque in Kerala’s Alappuzha. The Cheruvally Muslim Jamaat mosque near Alappuzha, made all arrangements for the marriage and the marriage ceremony was conducted according toContinue Reading
The Times of India Editorial New Delhi, Jan 19, 2020: The Syro-Malabar church of Kerala has claimed that “love jihad is not an illusion,” that Christian women are being lured abroad by Muslim men to become “sex slaves.” These church elders have followed the Hindutva playbook, where the idea ofContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Jan 17, 2020: This is in response to a report titled “Love Jihad disturbs social peace: Syro-Malabar Synod” published in Matters India on January 15. The Syro-Malabar Church, the largest Christian denomination in Kerala, seems to have blamed the Islamic State for luring scores ofContinue Reading
By John Dayal New Delhi, Jan 15, 2020: It will be 21 years on January 21 since Graham Stuart Staines, an Australian missionary working with the lepers of Orissa, was burnt to death with his young sons Timothy and Philips. They were sleeping in their jeep parked in a forestContinue Reading
By Debapriya Sen Vaite New Delhi, Jan 11, 2020: There are moments in time, when the expressions of resilience demand to be acknowledged. As the protests against the new Citizenship Amendment Act broke in Assam, and spread across the country, what stood out, were some very powerful images of thousandsContinue Reading
By Fr Raymond de Souza Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 5, 2020: In 2019 we became more familiar with the life and mission of St John Henry Newman. Perhaps in 2020 we might learn something about Mar Ivanios, called the “Newman of the East” by his people. This year the Syro-Malankara Church, theContinue Reading
By Father Raymond J de Souza This Advent marks the 50 anniversary of the liturgical reform — the “novus ordo” or “new order” of Mass — after the Second Vatican Council. We get used to what becomes routine, but there was nothing routine about a new order of Mass. ToContinue Reading
By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore, Dec. 19, 2019: The Hindi movie, Dharam, directed by Bhavana Thalwar, has brought out brilliantly the meaning of true religion as seeing God in human beings. Pandit Chaturvedi, the main character of the movie, adopts a boy child who was brought to his house by herContinue Reading