By George Cheriyan Jaipur, Sept 3, 2020: The Covid 19 pandemic will have severe negative impacts on achieving the targets of most of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, while unlocking and reconnecting, pandemic offers countries an opportunity to rebuild recovery plans that will reverse current trends and change theContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Aug 31, 2020: This title would be intriguing for those who don’t know Latin. Neither do I! It is the title of the prayer in the Breviary that priests are expected to recite before going to sleep at night. It is the prayer of the Prophet SimeonContinue Reading
By Goutam Ghose Kolkata, Aug 28, 2020: I feel very sad at the demise of Father Gaston Roberge. Father had been close to our hearts for many, many years. Just imagine his incredible journey — a Jesuit priest, who came all the way from Montreal to Kolkata at a youngContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, Aug 24, 2020: The intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of the Church leadership is exposed every time the final statement of the Syro-Malabar Synod of Bishops is published. The major focus of the previous Synod held in January 2020 was about ‘love jihad’ which brought much criticismContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Aug 21, 2020: Did you ever notice that the alphabet “C” has shot to prominence in this Covid-19 era? See the “Sea of Change” that the alphabet “C” has brought! No one expected that the alphabet “C” would play a completely overwhelming role compared withContinue Reading
By Tehmina Arora New Delhi, Aug 20, 2020: Seventy years ago this month, India as a young nation passed a presidential order to ensure fundamental freedoms and rights for Dalit people. However, the same order also prevented them from exercising their freedom of conscience and belief. The Constitution (Scheduled Castes)Continue Reading
By Fr Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Aug 9, 2020: Three significant observances mark August 9 every year: the anniversary of the ‘Quit India Movement,’ the anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki and the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Though each of these observances have their own specificity, thereContinue Reading
By Suresh Mathew New Delhi, Aug 8, 2020: The subtle line separating the religion and the State has been breached. By performing the bhoomi pujan of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set the clock back. His act has taken the secular country to a pathContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, Aug 8, 2020: Since the beginning of 2020 the whole world is suffering from the attack of the deadly Covid 19 pandemic. The floods and landslides in various parts of India have only added to the crises and tragedies. In Assam, Bihar, Bombay and Kerala severalContinue Reading
By Paul Zacharia Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 3, 2020: Not everyone can win the occupancy of a 1,700 year-old basilica in the heart of Rome, situated upon the Palatine Hill, the first nucleus of the Roman Empire where once the palaces of the great Caesars stood. Kerala’s Syro-Malabar Church has just doneContinue Reading
