By M L Satyan Bengaluru, May 1, 2023: While working with many religious congregations during the past many years I have been reflecting on the values of a religious person (priest, brother, nun). On April 21-22, I conducted a training program for the junior sisters of the Good Shepherd CongregationContinue Reading
By Isaac Harold Gomes Kolkata, April 27, 2023: In Christianity utmost importance is given to human lives including all other living beings and natural resources. Each life matters. This has been detailed by Pope Francis in his encyclical Letter Laudato si (Care for our Common Home – the ecology). TheContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, April 11, 2023: I am happy to have a mobile phone with me. It helps me get connected with anyone living in any part of the world at any time. Last month I was touring some of the interior parts of Jharkhand. From a remoteContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, April 4, 2023: Most of us would have heard of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1970 musical “Jesus Christ Superstar.” It was an attempt to re-present Christ in a modern day idiom. Nobody will have heard of Jesus and The Rolling Stones, the jazz group Mick Jagger founded inContinue Reading
By Shravan Garg Indore, April 2, 2023: Not finding words to express my personal grief and the collective loss to the society in the passing away of our dearest Father Varghese Alengaden. The moment I shared the devastating news with my dental surgeon daughter and her critical care consultant husbandContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden (This article was written by Father Varghese Alengaden on March 2, a day before his hospitalization for heart surgery. “If anything, unexpected happens to me during the surgery, let this be my message to the Church and all who have worked with me,” he wrote in hisContinue Reading
By Mudita Menona Sodder Mumbai, March 30, 2023: Father Varghese Alengaden shocked many with his untimely and unexpected death on March 26. Many, including me, had last met him on February 1, at the ninth Global Peace Convention at Porbandar. Parul Jain from Udaipur said, “It is really very unbelievableContinue Reading
By P A Chacko Sahibganj, March 21, 2023: The UN proclamation of March 21as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination calls on all people, communities and nations to respect people as human beings and not to judge people according to color, caste, creed or community. The inhumanContinue Reading
By F M Britto Raipur, March 14, 2023: It upsets us Christians when we hear that some Hindu militant groups keep on organizing Ghar Vapsi (reconversion) programs in some places. It pains us more that in every ceremony, a few thousand Christians become Hindus. Naturally, it is matter of concern.Continue Reading
By Dr George Jacob Kochi, March 4, 2023: Every year, on the occasion of International women’s day observed on March 8, I try to write about women or a woman who might have influenced me positively. This year, I write about my maternal grandmother who would have celebrated her 107thContinue Reading