By Jose Kavi New Delhi: It was a historic protest with a difference. There was less sloganeering and no stone throwing. Protesters sang and danced and listened to each other. Amid them were five members of the Missionaries of Jesus congregation who undertook a sit-in for 14 days at VanchiContinue Reading
By Justine Gitanjali Senapati The recent Regional Conference on Migrant Workers with Asian realities was the third in the series of the meetings that dealt with the issues on migration. The September 9-11 meet focused on the Asian context with the theme of “Migrant Workers: An Asia-Pacific Experience.” The firstContinue Reading
[Editor’s Note: We are reproducing an editorial The Statesman newspaper on the Church leadership in India] There is actually small need for a Biblical reference to link dereliction of duty with a display of moral cowardice: just over six decades back President John F Kennedy [of the United States] hadContinue Reading
The present crisis also presents the Church with an opportunity to examine the failure in its leadership.Continue Reading
Let us not make an excuse of delegating our job to GodContinue Reading
Chhotebhai Gay activists are ecstatic that the Supreme Court has finally struck down Sec 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), as being ultra vires of the Constitution, basic human rights, privacy and equal treatment. Why this ecstasy? Gay activists (which include homosexuals, lesbians and transgenders) had filed a writContinue Reading
By Carmel Nisha Pius Franco As the country with the world’s largest adolescent population, India is a cash cow for Planned Parenthood’s abortion business, which helps population control enthusiasts’ achieve their eugenic goals. Planned Parenthood has been relentless in its efforts to kill babies in India since 1936, the firstContinue Reading
By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ Saint Teresa of Calcutta embodies so much: charity and compassion; goodness and generosity; simplicity and sanctity, and much more! She was (and is) the world to the millions of her followers: the poorest of the poor, the dying destitute, the unloved and rejected and othersContinue Reading
Pretending that these are not ‘dark times’ and that the situation is not serious, will only mean an encouragement to the fascist, fundamentalist and fanatic forcesContinue Reading
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
