Fujrairah Catholics thank UAE
2014-12-31
Fujairah – Since 2002 Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church has been bringing together and supporting Catholics in Fujairah. The church also provides medical, educational and financial support to those in need, as well as social and fundraising activities. “Our church is a combination of almost everything. We are hereContinue Reading
Alarming rise of khap among Indian Catholics in UK
2014-12-31
Migrant families need to find ways to bring up their children as normal humansContinue Reading
Why does Bodo violence continue to recur?
2014-12-30
The causes for recurring violence in the Bodo areas are deep-rootedContinue Reading
Can Church move toward pubs?
2014-12-20
The Indian Divine Word Missionary currently working in the Netherlands, Europe mostly with migrantsContinue Reading
Indian migrants in Holy Land walk to Bethlehem for peace
2014-12-19
Bethlehem – More than 2,000 Indian migrant workers in the Holy Land took part in a brief pilgrimage from Jerusalem to Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity over the weekend as part of their preparations for Christmas. As they walked the five miles between the cities on Dec. 13, the faithfulContinue Reading
From Peshawar to Bethlehem
2014-12-19
A good beginning would be to recognize the “other” as a brother or sister, and not as a threat.Continue Reading
Five-year visa for minorities of India’s neighboring countries
2014-12-17
New Delhi – Members of the minority community from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh will be given five years’ visa instead of one-year as part of government’s effort to address their grievances and according citizenship in future. “The central government has decided that henceforth the long-term visa will be granted initiallyContinue Reading
Austerity measures engender neo-fascists in Europe
2014-12-16
Some 15,000 neo-Nazis dumped ‘pinstripe Nazis’ by commentators marched through the streets of Dresden in Germany carrying banners bearing slogans such as “Protect our homeland” “ Zero tolerance towards criminal asylum seekers” sending shock waves through the progressive and centrist forces of Europe who had thought they had buried fascismContinue Reading
Why Kerala is like Kuwait, while Madhya Pradesh is like Haiti
2014-12-15
American poet Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”—“Do I contradict myself/ Very well then I contradict myself/I am large, I contain multitudes”—seems tailor-made for India. Which country can India be compared to, in economic terms? Is India’s level of economic development more or less like Vietnam’s, because their per capita incomes,Continue Reading