By chhotebhai Kanpur, Feb 4, 2023: Synod, what’s that? Are we suffering from collective amnesia? The next round, the Continental one, is slated for February 24-27. For Asia it will be held in Bangkok, Thailand. If I correctly recall, our Asian bishops had earlier met in Pattaya, Thailand, better knownContinue Reading

By Astrid Lobo Gajiwala Bengaluru, Jan 19, 2023: I was privileged to attend an international conference on “Towards a Synodal Church: Moving Forward” in Bengaluru. The January 12-15 conference was organized by Bengaluru’s Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (Pontifical Athenaeum) in collaboration with Chavara Central Secretariat in Kochi, Kerala. I must admitContinue Reading

By P A Chacko Sahibganj, Jan 18, 2023: The damning revelation by the Massachusetts-based digital forensic firm, Arsenal Consulting, that Father Stan Swamy’s computer was compromised and targeted by hackers for planting 44 incriminating documents, exposes the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and its masters. Because, the agency took these falselyContinue Reading

By chhotebhai Kanpur, Nov 19, 2022: By “conversion” I here mean the explicit act of baptizing a non-Christian to make such a person Christian. We know that the right-wing Hindutva brigade has always been against religious conversion, thinly veiled as “forceful conversion.” Several anti-conversion laws have been passed in variousContinue Reading

By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Nov 7, 2022: November 3, 2022, was a special day indeed! On that day, Pope Francis began a four-day historic visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain, where he was given an exceptionally warm welcome! From the time he arrived in Bahrain, he set the tone ofContinue Reading

By Don Aguiar Mumbai, Nov 4, 2022: Faced with what may be the deepest recession in a century, a cost-of-living crisis, a migration crisis and energy blackouts, to most people, these issues might sound like they need more urgent attention than a 12-day-long junket in the desert. Yet the mediaContinue Reading

By Chacko Antony Sahibganj, Oct 27, 2022: Soul searching queries like, “Whither Kerala Church?” Or “Is it withering away?” are troubling many Christians in and outside Kerala. I am one of them. As a Keralite, I was born in the Syro-Malabar Church. As a teenager in 1950s, while serving asContinue Reading