By John B Monteiro “If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.” H L Mencken (1880-1956), American journalist and satirist. Missionaries are no more a joke. In some African countries where cannibalism was prevalent, when they killed and roasted a person,Continue Reading
We are turning into a nation of fractured sensibilities with little sense of justiceContinue Reading
By Anirban Bhattacharya and Nandini Dey It has been ten years since the sheltered calmness of the plateaus of Kandhamal witnessed one of the bloodiest episodes of communal violence unleashed on Christian minorities in India. Dalits and tribals found themselves under siege from mobs led by Hindutva fanatics. Dismembered limbs,Continue Reading
By: John Dayal 70 years as a church in Independent India, and a decade after the worst violence wrecked on the community in 300 years in the district of Kandhamal in the state of Orissa, the Christian community and its ecclesiastical leadership find themselves singularly ill-equipped to deal with theContinue Reading
A response to the article “The Shrinking of St Stephen’s” Hindustan Times August 12, 2018Continue Reading
Kandhamal anniversary falls in AugustContinue Reading
Divisive politics should not drive Christians into silosContinue Reading
The biggest casualty in the murky developments is the faith of the peopleContinue Reading
It is time all forms of religious processions bannedContinue Reading
Dear Troubled Catholics, I have never seen so many “ordinary Catholics”—who usually never follow or hear about Church news—as deeply troubled as I have seen them in response to the recent revelations about the retired archbishop of Washington, DC. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was asked by the pope to resign fromContinue Reading
