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
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
# Chhotebhai We are familiar with the Sadhu, usually a saffron robbed ascetic or mendicant. Till not so long ago most Sadhus had little or no worldly possessions, living simple and frugal lives. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi may have been the first to break the stereotype with his Rolls Royces andContinue Reading
By Virginia Saldanha The revelation that 110,333 cases of rape were registered in the country from 2014 to 2016, and 338,954 cases of crime against women were registered in 2016, by federal Minister Kiren Rijiju, does not come as a surprise. In fact, we should remember that these statistics areContinue Reading
