By chhotebhai Kanpur, Feb 28, 2025: The term “Love Jihad” is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms. Jihad is derived from the Arabic word Jahada that literally means accomplishing a task or attaining a goal by strength and force, be it for propagating good or fighting evil. Assertion by forceContinue Reading
By Dr George Jacob Kochi, May 10, 2923: The May 5 edition of the New Indian Express reported the story of Ashokan KM, a driver with the Indian Army. He has been working in the Defence Court in Fort Kochi after he took voluntary retirement in 1996. He is aContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Oct. 9, 2021: Leaders of various religious communities and social organizations have started a journey in the southern Indian state of Kerala to promote communal harmony and national integration. The journey named ‘Sarva Dharma Sadbhavana Yatra’ (Journey to foster goodwill among all religions, is an initiativeContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Sept. 23, 2021: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has debunked a bishop’s allegation that some groups are using fake love and narcotics to trap Catholic youth in the southern Indian state. The chief minister on September 22 presented data from the crime department to prove theContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru: A Christian ashram movement has launched a campaign to promote religious unity and harmony in Kerala, a southern Indian state where a debate is raging over Islamophobia. “It is a fact that religious groups are passing through a crisis situation due to wide politicization of religionContinue Reading
By M K George Rome: The Church in India is definitely polarized. The issues that divide them are not necessarily new. The Dalit issues, liturgical controversies, financial malpractices, sexual abuse, clericalism and so on. The list is familiar. With a vibrant social media, the polarization is reaching more and manyContinue Reading
The issue of ”Love Jihad” has cropped up again in Kerala after reports that the Centre has denied permission to return to four women, who had gone from the state to Afghanistan along with their husbands and children to live in the “Islamic Caliphate” promised by terror organisation IS. FourContinue Reading
(A sequel to “Love’s Dark Secrets”) By chhotebhai Kanpur: Once again this heading challenges us to sit up and take note. We know that the term “Love Jihad” has been coined by ultra-nationalist right wing forces that have used it to push through stringent legislation against forced conversions in UttarContinue Reading
Guwahati: Assam is planning a law that will require the bride and groom to declare their religion and income in official documents a month before the wedding. Against the backdrop of many other BJP-ruled states bringing in laws to check “love jihad”, the Assam government says its aim is toContinue Reading
Kochi, Jan 27, 2020: Continuing the debate on “Love Jihad” in Kerala, a senior priest of the Catholic Church said the incidents of young women from the southern India state being used as “sex slaves” in war-torn nations are a reality and turning a blind eye to it “amounts toContinue Reading
