By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ Ahmedabad: It is ten days since Father Stan Swamy passed away. Dear Fr. Stan Swamy On July 5, you completed your pilgrimage here on earth! Thousands feel your loss everywhere; a light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere! There isContinue Reading
By Suresh Mathew New Delhi: “I am not a silent spectator, I am part of the game, and I am ready to pay the price.” Thus sang the caged bird before paying the biggest price by his own life. Yes, Stan Swamy, the prophet, is no more. He attained martyrdom.Continue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur: A middle aged man with a shock of disheveled straw-yellow hair approached the altar of the cathedral in London, in wedding attire. He had been born a Catholic and subsequently joined the Anglican Church. He had been twice married and divorced, and now had a child fromContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji: It was during lockdown last year I began to look at some YouTube presentations and got fascinated by some of the bloggers. I noticed that many individuals, students and families had turned to or had intensified the use of this medium as an income generating socialContinue Reading
By Ladislaus Louis D’Souza Mumbai: “Jesus longs for us to move beyond the idea of sacrifice—what we feel obligated to give up in order to be perceived as practicing Christians. He would much rather have our hearts involved in every act of mercy on our part, our lives entangled withContinue Reading
Ram Puniyani In Karakthal village in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, a Dalit youth was recently thrashed for daring to sport a moustache. In Chikkmagaluru, Karnataka, a Dalit youngster was tortured and subjected to degrading treatment in police custody. In Madhya Pradesh, the wife of a Dalit labourer, five months pregnant, was rapedContinue Reading
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
