Kandhamal without closure
2018-08-26
We are turning into a nation of fractured sensibilities with little sense of justiceContinue Reading
Kandhamal: Never Again
2018-08-22
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
Anniversaries as index of church crisis
2018-08-16
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
Shrinking St Stephen’s
2018-08-14
A response to the article “The Shrinking of St Stephen’s” Hindustan Times August 12, 2018Continue Reading
Kandhamal challenges on 10th anniversary
2018-08-14
Kandhamal anniversary falls in AugustContinue Reading
Kandhamal: As much as we would like to forget it
2018-08-12
Divisive politics should not drive Christians into silosContinue Reading
The Wail Behind The Veil
2018-08-11
The biggest casualty in the murky developments is the faith of the peopleContinue Reading
Progression of processions
2018-08-10
It is time all forms of religious processions bannedContinue Reading
‘Enough is enough’: Famed evangelist pens powerful letter to ‘troubled Catholics’
2018-08-03
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
To fight sex abuse, Church must invest in women: Vatican expert
2018-07-27
Michael J. O’Loughlin One of the church’s experts on protecting children from abuse says that while today “there is much more awareness about the issue,” the church has to invest more resources and include more women, especially in places where the church is growing fastest. “What is still lacking isContinue Reading