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
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi: Ever Since Covid-19 affected humankind, need for social distancing closed down schools and colleges. Classrooms were shuttered. Instead, online education became the new norm. It has been so ever since, with the virus still holding students to ransom, and keeping them indoors. Students used toContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru: The priest announced that Jesus Christ was coming to church the following Sunday. People turned up in large numbers to see him. Everyone expected him to preach, but he only smiled when introduced and said, “Hello. Everyone offered him hospitality for the night, especially theContinue Reading
Cardinal Raymond Burke, an outspoken conservative within the Roman Catholic Church and skeptic of Covid vaccinations, has been admitted to the hospital with the coronavirus and is on a ventilator. Burke’s Twitter account posted on Aug. 14 that the cardinal, who has publicly clashed with the views of Pope Francis,Continue Reading
Christians are being urged to pray for people in Afghanistan as persecution is likely to rise due to the Taliban takeover. On Aug. 16, as the Taliban confirmed it had 90 per cent of government buildings under its control in Kabul, thousands gathered at the city’s international airport in aContinue Reading
