By Inés San Martín Rome, March 10, 2020: Recently the Vatican announced Pope Francis has created a task force to help bishops’ conferences around the world address the clerical sex abuse crisis. The lineup is impressive, but much like a high-profile February 2019 summit on child protection, laypeople — womenContinue Reading
By A C Michael New Delhi, March 5, 2020: The year 2020 has barely begun and has already witnessed 26 incidents of violence against Christians spread over 10 states. Contrast this against 29 incidents in 13 states in India in January 2019. Uttar Pradesh continues to lead with the highestContinue Reading
Yusuf Ansari New Delhi, March 6, 2020: A week after grim stories are being uncovered from hospitals, mortuaries, and police stations, it seems there is no end to misery for Muslims affected by the northeast Delhi riots. Muslim families who are already shaken by the worst communal violence in decadesContinue Reading
New Delhi, Feb.21, 2020: For Dina M. Siddiqi, a professor of anthropology at New York University, the women of Shaheen Bagh have changed who speaks for Muslims in India. “What has really been undermined is going to the usual guys about what Muslims think in India and what they prioritise,”Continue Reading
By Anis Ansari Lucknow, Feb 20, 2020: The unprecedented wave of nationwide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR) has shown unthinkable secular unity at a time when the Centre was trying to extend the infamous ‘divide andContinue Reading
By Robancy A Helen Tuticorin, Feb 7, 2020: A fishery is an important sector in India. It employs millions of people and contributes to the food security of the country. Fishing communities in India are not homogenous, as they belong to different castes. These communities have distinct social, cultural governanceContinue Reading
Ram Puniyani New Delhi, Feb. 4, 2020: As democracy is seeping in slowly all over the world, there is an organization which is monitoring the degree of democracy in the individual countries, The Economist Intelligence Unit. As such in each country there are diverse factors which on one hand workContinue Reading
Andreas Thonhauser Most Christians in India will remember the year 2019 as challenging, to say the least. Religious minorities in general and Christians specifically suffered from an increasing number of attacks. Hindu nationalism, claiming to purge India of everything non-Hindu, was a decisive issue in the general election. Soon after,Continue Reading
By Harsh Mander New Delhi, Dec 29, 2019: The nation’s slide into fear, hate and bigotry did not begin ex nihilo five years ago. It’s the climax of a hundred-year campaign against the kind and pluralistic ethos of the freedom struggle A hundred years have passed since a battle wasContinue Reading
By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ The nation is on fire! The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) which was promulgated on December 12 after the President of India gave his assent to it after it was passed by both the lower and upper houses of Parliament. The act is blatantly discriminatory,Continue Reading
