By Ladislaus Louis D’Souza Mumbai: The biggest pandemic-lockdown casualty, the grisly death toll apart, is the Church’s liturgical celebration. From viewing Mass on TV or computer screens being just that, ‘viewing’/‘watching,’ to fulfilling the Sunday obligation by doing precisely that, our faith perspective in relation to the Liturgy has undergoneContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Guwahati: Lack of professionalism often takes the Church’s media advocacy in the wrong direction, admits the Indian head of the international forum for Catholic media persons. Church media persons also suffer from lack of passion and misplaced priorities, Father Stanly Kozhichira, the president of Signis India, toldContinue Reading
By Ram Puniyani Mumbai: We mourn with the Afghan people their double tragedy. The first tragedy—the US’s illegal and utterly unjustified military invasion twenty years ago—helped prepare the ground for today’s tragedy, the accession to power of the Islamo-fanatical Taliban. Condemnation of the latter must not mean any softening ofContinue Reading
Colombo: Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith of Colombo has called on the people to demonstrate August 21 to protest what he described as the government’s failure to shed light on the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings. “Raise a black flag on August 21 in front of your homes, institutions and market places asContinue Reading
Kabul: At least two people have been killed and 12 wounded after gunmen fired into a crowd of people who had taken down an Afghan Taliban flag in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, sources say. A black-on-white Taliban flag that was waving at a roundabout in Jalalabad, located aboutContinue Reading
Jamshedpur: Daily wage earners in one of the urban slums in the steel city have resolved to follow the ideals of Father Stan Swamy on India’s 75th Independence Day. The spontaneous decision was taken during a resolution meeting organized by Jharkhand Krantikari Mazdoor Union (JKMU) at Adivasi Basti in GreenContinue Reading
New Delhi: No gunshots have been heard since the Taliban took control of Kabul but the situation is precarious and getting more so with each passing hour, say four Indian teachers in war-ravaged Afghanistan, appealing for immediate evacuation so they can return to their families back home. All four areContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi: Peace will return to Afghanistan if the international community leaves the country to its own people, says Jesuit Father Alexis Prem Kumar, who had spent several months in Taliban captivity. The Jesuit priest, who is popularly known as Prem, was abducted on June 2, 2014,Continue Reading
By M K George Rome: It is going to be a week since India celebrated its 75th Independence Day. There were the usual festivities, with Covid restrictions certainly, and speeches/ articles galore. Perusing them, I see two clearly contrasting narratives — A highly positive and promising, given by the rulingContinue Reading
Kochi: The 29th Synod of the Bishops of the Syro-Malabar Church got under way on August 16 at its headquarters in Kochi, Kerala. The deliberations of the Synod, led by the Church’s major archbishop, Cardinal George Alencherry, are being conducted online because of the coronavirus pandemic. A total of 61Continue Reading
