By Miriam Sathyavi Welgampola [Editor’s Note: Hector Welgampola, a Catholic layman from Sri Lanka, was a colossus that strode the Asian Catholic media scene for decades. As the first Asian Executive Editor of Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN), he led the Church news agency from the front to liveContinue Reading
Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ The late 1960s and the early 1970s are historically a watershed. This period was marked with protests against racism and injustices; against war and violence. The Civil Rights movement and the anti- Vietnam War protests saw millions come out in the United States. In Europe, thereContinue Reading
India has long had a vibrant media, with more than 407 million newspaper readers — more than the population of the United StatesContinue Reading
By Isaac Gomes A traditional Easter greeting in the Western church is the exclamation “He is risen!” and the response is “He is risen, indeed!” The words are sometimes accompanied by the exchange of three kisses on alternate cheeks, depending on the church. In the Orthodox and Catholic churches, theContinue Reading
The Church celebrates Jesus’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem on March 25 this yearContinue Reading
Good Friday is much more than 3 nails or 3 hours of sufferingContinue Reading
By Avi Selk No. Stephen Hawking, according to Stephen Hawking, is not in heaven or with God, neither of which he believed in. His consciousness has not reunited with any kind of divine force behind the universe, the late theoretical physicist and cosmologist would say. If there was ever anythingContinue Reading
By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ On 14 February, seventeen students and teachers were gunned down in their school in Parkland, Florida; however according to the non-profit organization, ‘Everytown for Gun Safety’, “as of 2 March almost two dozen school shootings have already occurred on school campuses across the United States.”Continue Reading
By Sudha Varghese The world is very complicated or rather it is made very complicated. Until women achieve equality in her family, in society, and in the whole system changes will not come in her favour. Gender equality is a cry which needs to be taken more seriously than theContinue Reading
A rewriting of history, a rewriting of text books, means that the rewriting of the Constitution is but one step awayContinue Reading
