By Varghese Alengaden Indore: “Father, how is the multinational Catholic company of India?” a visiting French social scientist asked me at the World Social Forum in Mumbai a few years ago. I recalled the French man’s question when I read the news about the demand for a Dalit Punjabi bishopContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi: The section 377 of the Indian Penal Code of 1861 criminalized sexual activities ‘against the order of nature’. People who choose to adopt sexual tendencies ‘against the order of nature’ are bracketed under a community popularly known as LGBT, which hogged the limelight through theirContinue Reading
By Jacob Peenikaparambil When BJP conquered the North Eastern states of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya in the assembly elections, I had written an article in the Indian Currents in March this year under the title, “Reinvent or Become Irrelevant.” After watching on TV the humiliating scenes after the arrest ofContinue Reading
Will the Catholic Church have the courage to be inclusive like Jesus?Continue Reading
By Anto Akkara Call it destiny or coincidence, Kuldip Nayar – the patriarch of journalism in independent India – passed away at the age of 95 on August 23, 2018 – on the 10th anniversary of Kandhamal. It was on this day a decade ago that Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati ofContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi: The southern Indian state of Kerala was at the receiving end of this year’s Southwest monsoon since its onset on May 29. The deluge took on Noachian proportions. The monsoon caused unprecedented destruction that measured up to second worst in 94 years in terms ofContinue Reading
If there is one group who requires to be converted, it is Christians themselvesContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur: It is with a heavy heart that I am writing this piece. God chose St Francis of Assisi in the 13th Century, saying to him, “Go and repair my church”. Those were the Dark Ages of the Catholic Church, where power, corruption and hedonism were rampant; rightContinue Reading
By Cynthia Anna Mathew CJ “We the Peoples… Together Finding Global Solutions for Global Problems.” This was the theme for the 67th United Nations DPI NGO Conference held on August 22-23 at the UN Headquarters, New York. Each day at the United Nations,member States affirm that it is only byContinue Reading
