By C M Paul New Education Policy 2020 speaks of the importance of community interventions by students and faculty members while pursuing higher education. Being a new concept, implementing Service Learning as a Pedagogy for 21st Century Skills becomes a challenge. It is precisely for this reason, the new bookContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, August 3, 2023: In the YouTube I watched Karan Thapar’s recent interview with the Archbishop of Imphal. One pre-dominant and critical question was “Is there any hint on religious intolerance?” The archbishop gave an elaborate response, “249 Meitei Christian churches in Imphal and Imphal valleyContinue Reading
By John Dayal New Delhi, August 3, 2021: Cardinal Oswald Gracias is a respected leader of the Catholic Church, who since his inclusion in the 8-member group the Holy Father created to advise him on global affairs, is well known across national boundaries and continents. In many ways, he is,Continue Reading
By Sunny Jacob Dublin, August 2, 2023: Historically, the words religious and spiritual have been used synonymously to describe all the various aspects of the concept of religion, but in contemporary usage spirituality has often become associated with the interior life of the individual, placing an emphasis upon the well-beingContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, August 2, 2023: Catholics across India have reacted with dismay to a message on Manipur from Cardinal Oswald Gracias, a top Church leader in the country and one of the eight advisors of Pope Francis. The cardinal’s comments “were shocking, uncalled for and totally unjustified,Continue Reading
By M K George Rome, August 1, 2013: The French have a word, an ‘eminence grise’ (grey eminence) which refers to a powerful decision-maker or advisor who operates behind the scenes or in a non-public or unofficial capacity. This phrase originally referred to Francois Leclerc du Tremblay, the right-hand manContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Agartala, July 31, 2023: Three peace rallies were held at various parts of Agartala diocese in Tripura in solidarity with the victims of violence in Manipur. In the capital city of Agartala, a candlelight rally was organized by the diocese’s women’s commission July 30 in collaborationContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, July 31, 2023: Women in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru held a rally to condemn the ongoing violence against women in Manipur, a northeastern Indian state. The Catholic Women’s Commission of the Archdiocese of Bangalore organized the July 30 rally with like-minded women organizations inContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, July 31, 2023: Pope Francis on July 31 appointed Jesuit Archbishop Cyril Vasil, former secretary of the Office for Eastern Churches and presiding officer of the Greek Catholic diocese of Kosice in Slovakia, as the pontifical delegate for the Syro-Malabar Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly in Kerala,Continue Reading
By Stanislaus Alla New Delhi, July 31, 2023: Run, flee, escape, hide, survive are not the verbs that we often use in our routine conversations. And yet, these were the very verbs that were employed by a group of Catholics from Manipur while sharing their stories. On the occasion ofContinue Reading
