By: Dr. George Jacob Bishop Mar Joseph Kallarangatt who heads the Pala Diocese of Syro-Malabar Church recently remarked while addressing the laity on the occasion of the Eighth Day of Lent of Mary at a church in Kuravilangad in Kottayam district in Kerala that ‘narcotic Jihad’ and ‘love Jihad’ were beingContinue 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
By Varghese Alengaden Nagpur: The Church leaders in Kerala, especially the Syro-Malabar bishops, are often in the news for wrong reasons. First it was about ‘love Jihad’ accusing the Muslim youth trapping Christian girls. This generated much conflict between the two communities. While making this allegation the Church leaders wereContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Palai: Bishop Joseph Kallarangatt of Palai has stirred another controversy by alleging that some groups try to destroy young Catholics with narcotics and fake love. In a democratic country like India, use of weapons to destroy another community is impossible, so they use novel methods like “loveContinue Reading