Category: Christian World

Cover Photo: Constantine the Great    T/C – THE COLLECTOR Kieren Johns April 8, 2021   The history of Rome and Europe was changed forever by these 8 key events. Does he deserve the title of Constantine the Great?  ...

    Varghese Pamplanil   (Edited summary of the article by Melanie Challenger, Aeon newsletter)   Over-boarding the catechism classes Human exceptionalism is dead. We belong to the species of mammals. For our own and our planet’s sake, we should...

Cover photo: The Dead Sea scrolls were discovered in 1947 in the Qumran Caves Heike Mund 07th April 2021   Was Christ really crucified and did he really even exist? These questions have mystified not only the followers of Christianity but...

Cover photo: Politicians continue to lie and distort history to create an illusion of superiority among “their” peopleImage Credit: ©Gulf News   OPINION GULF NEWS 5th April 2021   Ashok Swain   Collective intelligence and astute leadership is required to...

  THE TELEGRAPH CALCUTTA 5th April 2021 Amit Bhaduri   Deng Xiaoping famously said it did not matter if the cat was white or black as long as it caught mice.   This was considered pragmatism about an open-market-oriented economic...

Cover photo: Courtesy – TimesNowNews.com   james kottoor   Whom should you vote in? No political parties: all corrupt to core, so ‘NOTA’ to them! Vote in your rarest of rare, honest candidates in any party! That is democracy! That...

REAL SIMPLE By Sharon Feiereisen  April 02, 2021   This Ancient Greek school of thought may hold the key to happier, stress-free days.  Once again Mr Varghese Pamplanil has recommended a new article for the benefit of CCV readers.  It is...

Cover image: Community members take part in a program on 11 September 2019, at Glide Church in San Francisco. (Los Angeles Times).    LOS ANGELES TIMES PHIL ZUCKERMAN 2nd April 2021   The post below published in Los Angeles Times...

james Kottoor There is no such secret! To be content with what you have alone is continued feast, they say. But our minds are restless until we capture that complete happiness which is always, not one step but many steps...

james kottoor   On Apri 1st All fools’ day in 1960s I took over as editor of New LEADER, Chennai, after completing my 4-year journalism studies in US, from Msgr. Eric D’Soosa, a saintly non-controversial editor for long. I did it...

Soon it is going to be Easter. Prior to that, Catholic Church across the world, a religious drama is played out on a script based on events described in Bible about Jesus’ arrest, his trial, judgment by Pilot, crucifixion and...

Cover image: Migrant workers in Delhi head back to their home villages during the annual Chhat Puja (Worship of Sun God) in November 2019. The pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of tribal migrants, according a study by Indian Catholic bishops....

Why soft power matters: It’s an invaluable asset, India must not diminish its stock by weakening its democracy! Uday Deb                                                                                                                      By Pavan K Varma, in Times of India, March 26, 2021,   The writer Pavan Varma is a regular columnist, author and former diplomat. Weather...

Columnist  T J S George – In New Indian Expres, 13th December 2020 The reality that stares at the world today is that farmers are on the rise in India and that there is no one in the Government who can even discuss...

By Shalini Venugopal Bhagat Mattersindia.com   A wonderful saga of woman empowerment.  Meet Chandro Tomar, the indomitable 89-year-old world's oldest sharp shooter and a living legend. Isaac Gomes, Associate Editor, Church Citizens' Voice.   Johri: The 89-year-old woman stood in the courtyard...

H KHASNOBIS, in The Statesman, New Delhi | March 19, 2021  The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols form the core of international humanitarian law, which regulate the conduct of armed conflict and seek to limit its effects United Nations Geneva headquarters. (Photo:...

                                          VARGHESE PAMPLANIL     The article “Is God, he, she, or it?” which was published in CCV has prompted this...

The article “Is God, he, she, or it?” appeared in C C V has prompted this small presentation. The origins of religions and evolution of gods.  The Hebrew Bible, the starting point of Judaism, Christianity and Islam contains remnants of the...

  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yrKiOeXgWbNiorIeyzG1kOsSnU89yUMF/view?usp=sharing   Isaac Gomes reports from Kolkata   On 14th March 2021, ANANDABAZAR PATRIKA ONLINE published a report in Bengali (link given below), on several questions the shell-shocked Laity of Bengal asked Archbishop Thomas D’Souza of the Archdiocese of...

THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS 14 March 2021   Pinarayi Vijayan would be a useful case-study for political leaders. He was a communist who would have got drowned in any other state; he survived in Kerala because communism is not feared...