By Stan Swamy Dumka, Feb 20, 2020: The second half of 2019 (July – December) was both a very trying but sobering experience for me. The Jharkhand police were after me and I was after the police. The difference was the police acted illegally and I acted legally. Issue ofContinue Reading
Abhijeet Jadhav There is a routine to my visit to my native place in Nagaland — my grandmother asks me to massage her lower back and the joints. Back in the day she would collect kernels of groundnuts from a local oil mill and prepare a cooking stove by makingContinue Reading
By P. A. Chacko Sahibganj, Feb 16, 2020: Sorry for this interruption. Granted that you will soft-land in Ahmedabad on February 24, we wish you a comfortable stay. We shall make sure that you will be cordoned off from all urban Naxals (Maoists) and slum dwellers. In order to provideContinue Reading
Dr. George Jacob Kochi, Feb 14, 2020: The other morning, the maid who comes home to help in the kitchen arrived in tears. She looked distraught. Though dark-complexioned, reddened bumps showed through her face. Her hair was disheveled. Her eyes were blood-shot. She lacked her characteristic joie de vivre dispositionContinue Reading
By Lalita Roshni Lakra New Delhi, Feb 10, 2020: The beginning of everything is tiny and slow but important. I received a religious vocation in my childhood. I hail from Kurdeg Hatta village, situated in the vicinity of a hundred-year-old parish named Kurdeg in Jharkhand State. The Daughters of St.Continue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, Feb 4, 2020: “Am I taking your time, sister?” a 75-year-old gentleman said, smiling, after he had been talking to us for an hour. When he entered our store, he was limping and looked tired. “Not at all. We are here for you,” the sister answeredContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Kandhamal, Feb 1, 2020: I was lucky to be among 32 priests from Odisha’s Kandhamal who recently undertook a pilgrimage to Bom Jesu Basilica in Goa that houses the relics of Saint Francis Xavier, one of daring missionaries of all times. The January 17-21 trip has strengthenedContinue Reading
By Shay Cullen Cebu, Jan 31, 2020: January 27 marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation by Russian soldiers of the most notorious Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. The memory of the horrific genocide that killed six million Jews and a million other innocent people by the NaziContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi, Jan 30, 2020: Many events in close succession changed my life drastically lately. My mother’s passing away in her 80s robbed me of a longtime companion, friend and a person to irritate and nag, which did not go down well with her. Despite the irritants,Continue Reading
By Victor Edwin New Delhi, Jan 30, 2020: The Jesuit superiors missioned me to ‘Apostolate among Muslims.’ The mission places on me a twofold responsibility: explore, find and establish contacts with Muslims to help them understand the Church and her love for Muslims and help Christians who prepare for ministriesContinue Reading
