Monthly Archive: December 2016

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Give peace a chance – Endless fighting in Syria

Editorial ,in the Statesman, Kolkatta,December 31, 2016  (Note: Who created safe heavens for the planting and flourishing of an Islamic State, ISIS, in Iraq and Syria? It was done by the atrocious, abominable invasion and destruction of Iraq and hanging...

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In Germany, Muslim Refugees convert to Christianity

Muslims becoming Christians?  (In the pic: A pastor baptises a Newly converted Muslim refugee – Dec 10, 2016, in Times of India) Church leaders have confirmed an upward trend in conversions. However, they have not provided statistics about these conversions. The entire conversion...

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New York’s Cardinal Dolan to Pray at Trump Inauguration

DISPATCHES – Michael O'Loughlin, Dec 28 2016  in America, the National Catholic Review (In the oic: Banquet Hail. New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan and Donald Trump, then the Republicans' nominee for U.S. president, at the 71st annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation...

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Why Modi Poured out Christ’s Heart in his Mann Ki Baat?

Valson Thampu, in  Daily O, 25-12-2016 Showing a caring approach to the poor is a far more powerful political strategy than derailing India via demonetisation.   (Note: Valson Thampu is a known writer, political and social analyst and most of...

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We have a stake in Syria, yet we have done nothing

John McCain on Aleppo masacre – (December 22), in the Washington Post Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness (In the pic: Syrian army soldiers patrol the east Aleppo neighborhood of Tariq al-Bab on Dec. 3. (Hassan Ammar/Associated Press)...

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Jesus the Migrant, God Incarnate Son

Francis Sunil Rosario   (Fr.  Sunil Rosario is a priest from Kolkata, now doing his Doctorate in Ministry (D.Min) at Catholic Theological Union, (CTU) in Chicago. He has his M. Phil degree from Dublin City University. Before that he was...

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German bishops plan Guidelines for divorced, remarried

Christa Pongratz-Lippitt, in NCR, Dec. 21, 2016 (In the pic: Bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann)  (Note: All are fully aware of the biblical dictum: “Those who stand and  wait also serve!” But then how long is one to wait? Even Framcis lost...

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What is Aleppo in Syria? – Death in Aleppo

Shiv Visvanathan, in the Hindu, December 16/16 (Note: It is Christmas time. What will make good headlines are stories about Joseph and Mary walking the length and breadth of posh residential areas, knocking closed doors in vain, to find enough room...