By Varghese Alengaden Indore, Dec 7,2021: Although I had suggested many practical proposals of crisis prevention and management in my previous articles I feel it worth repeating many of them. I suggest the following practical tips after experimenting and found fruitful over last three decades. • Start interfaith prayers inContinue Reading
By Jessy Kurian New Delhi, Nov 23, 2021: November 19 this year marked a great history in India’s Independence history. On this day ‘sovereignty’ of India was reaffirmed, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi a announced the repeal of three Farm Laws. They are: 1. The Farmer’s Produce Trade and CommerceContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Nov 20, 2021: Our farmers know the way, go the way and show the way! Thanks to their relentless struggle and their great sacrifices, for all of us – the three anti-farmer laws have finally been repealed. For more than a year now – with blood,Continue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Nov 20, 2021: We are on the cusp of Advent, the precursor of Christmas. Till not so long ago this was the time that we started sending out and receiving Christmas cards, now a thing of the past. A popular banner on these cards was “Glory toContinue Reading
By Isaac Gomes Kolkata, Nov 15, 2021: On November 14, the Children’s Day in India, a priest gave a startling sermon at the 8 am Mass in a large parish in Kolkata. He extensively quoted Pope Francis who said that the poor are the treasures of the Church; that theContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Kailashahar (Tripura), Nov 13, 2021: Dalits are demanding Indo-Dalit individual Church and Rite when the Church in India is celebrating Dalit Liberation Sunday on November 14. Dalit Liberation Sunday is celebrated every year since 2007 by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) in collaboration with theContinue Reading
By Virginia Saldanha Mumbai, Nov. 9, 2021: While all appreciate Pope Francis forging ahead appointing women to positions in the Vatican, there are questions raised about these appointments. Here, I bring some more voices of women representing laity of the Indian Catholic Church. The first question is, why are onlyContinue Reading
By Noella de Souza Mumbai, Nov 7, 2021: “Indians cheer Italian nun at key Vatican post” is the headline of a news report, but surprisingly the leaders of the sisters in India who have commented are precisely the ones who are the slowest in bringing about change in the livesContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar. Mumbai, Nov 5, 2021: Stalin once ripped all the feathers off a live chicken as a lesson to his followers. He then set the chicken on the floor a short distance away. The chicken was bloodied and suffering immensely, yet, when Stalin began to toss some bitsContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, Oct 29, 2021: India was blessed by many foreigners who came to India and made it their home. Many of them not only mastered Indian languages but also wrote dictionaries, translated the Bible in to Indian languages and made research in Indian culture and Hindu scriptures.Continue Reading