By M L Satyan Bengaluru: We, human beings, have been boasting of our science, technology, military and weapon power. Every country has been spending enormous amount of money for procuring arms, weapons and nuclear power. Our human pride, our imagined self-importance, status and money power, the delusion that we haveContinue Reading
By Bernardo Cervellera Rome: The editor of AsiaNews bids farewell as he returns to Hong Kong and China, an old and new mission. He gives thanks to God, to the AsiaNews staff, to friends and readers for their generosity. Mission in mass media is the “first areopagus” of contemporary mission.Continue Reading
By M.K. George Rome: ‘Tell me why’ is the title of a song by Declan Galbarith. He sang it in 2002 when he had not reached 11 years of age. But the questions he asked remain so relevant even today. “In my dream, children sing a song of love forContinue Reading
By Shanti Pulickal Berhampur: Physically challenged or differently abled persons were considered a curse in the Old Testament. On seeing a blind person, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; heContinue Reading
By Ladislaus Louis D’Souza Mumbai: European powers were notorious for colonizing weaker, underdeveloped nations by engaging them on the battlefield, shrewdly applying the then highly effective strategy, Divide and Conquer. Coming from the Latin divide et impera, in politics and sociology, the term ‘Divide and Conquer’ denotes appropriating and consolidatingContinue Reading
By John Dayal New Delhi: Recently, the Editors Guild of India condoled the deaths of journalists of over 100 news reporters, newspapers, intranet platforms and independent grassroots media persons, who have died because of Covid-19 over the past year. In April 2021 itself, more than 52 journalists died because ofContinue Reading
By Jessy Kurian New Delhi: It is heart-rending to know that the second wave of corona has taken away the lives of more than 185 Catholic priests and 170 nuns in India. Even after this data, many priests and nuns have lost their lives. Among around 103,000 nuns in IndiaContinue Reading
By: Ittoop Panikulam SVD Part of my curious daily morning ritual is to look for Sandeep Adhwaryu’s political cartoons. His cartoons are wise symbols that roar out volumes of truths to the viewers like me. And they are at the same time humorous and witty! The gap between words andContinue Reading
By Mudita Menona Sodder Mumbai: Spirituality is a way of life. Sacred Heart of Jesus Spirituality is the way of the heart – the path of unconditional love. To follow in the footsteps of the Master, one has to study the interior dispositions of Jesus’ heart and learn to loveContinue Reading
By Hedwig Lewis Mumbai: The Jesuits are observing an Ignatian Year, May 20, 2021 to July 31, 2022, to celebrate the fifth centenary of the conversion of St Ignatius of Loyola. On May 20, 1521, while defending the fortress of Pamplona, Spain, in a battle with the invading French army,Continue Reading
