Syria’s Bloody War
-Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ* 5 March 2018 Fr Cedric Prakash SJ, is at present based in Lebanon, with the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in the Middle East on advocacy and communications. There can be none better than Fr Cedric, a...
Category: Christian World
Pure blood Still boiling? Begin a new tradition, based on Inclusion!
Alex Kavumpurath, National Coordinator, KANA writes: (Note: This is a response to the recent final order from Rome to the die-hard pure blood advocates of the Knanaya community, to take back nearly a Lack of believers...
WHY INDIA SHOULD LIE LOW IF A US-CHINA TRADE WAR ERUPTS
SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA 4th March 2018 SWAMINATHAN S. ANKLESARIA AIYAR Different experts have different perceptions. Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar feels that in the impending trade war threatened by Donald Trump in the name of his election promise "America First",...
WANTED: A SWACHH MISSION FOR BANKS TO STOP NiMoS
Times of India, Kolkata 4th March 2018 Chetan Bhagat Is it a warning signal for public sector banks which have branches all over India, particularly the rural belt, where private sector banks are allergic to go? Isaac Gomes, Asso....
ADAPTING TO EXCEL AMID RAPID IMPERMANENCE
The Statesman Calcutta 04th March 2018 Raja Murthy* A wake up call for all of us regarding the rapid changes that are likely to take place in two decades. Either we adapt to survive and excel or we stay...
Memories Never Die!
Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ* 28 February 2018 It is sixteen years now since the Gujarat Carnage of 2002. The years have flown by; Gujarat, India and the world has experienced a generation change in many different ways. “Let us...
FR TOM UZHUNNALIL VISITS KOLKATA FOR THANKSGIVING MASS AFTER MIRACULOUS RELEASE FROM 557-DAYS CAPTIVITY IN YEMEN
Isaac Gomes, Asso. Editor, Church Citizens' Voice reports from Kolkata on Fr Tom Uzhunnalil, the proverbial phoenix who has escaped from the jaws of death to testify that our God is a Living God. This report has been delayed...
Hit by ‘semen-filled’ balloon: This DU student’s account is not the only sexual harassment story of Holi
India Today Shreya Biswas New Delhi February 28, 2018 The perils of Hooliganism in the name of Holi, the festival of colours. Please read internationally well-known beauty therapist Shahnaz Husain's the advice dangerous side effect of the colours...
What does it mean? Medium is the Message
Devendra Saksena in The Statesman February 25, 2018 (Note: It is important to know the world we live in. Are we masters of this world or its victims? The medium is the message "is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan meaning that...
CHALLENGE TO THE INDIAN CATHOLIC PRESS
– Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ* 23 February 2018 A few days ago a twenty-seven year old poor Adivasi youth was lynched by a mob in the Palakkad District of Kerala for apparently robbing some Rs 200/- worth of foodstuffs;...
Francis listens to critiques in Chile’s sex abuse – Follow Pope’s example of re-think
dr. james kottoor (Note: In the picture, Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta. This story is published in detail to help all of us reflect on many things: 1) All of us can make mistakes including Popes considered infallible; 2) Even the...
Nirav Modi case: Bank officials may have made close to Rs 823 crore in PNB fraud
INDIA TODAY Virendrasingh Ghunawat Mumbai 19 February 2018 Officials at Punjab National Bank's (PNB) Brady House branch in South Mumbai may have made close to Rs 823 crore after receiving kickbacks for issuing fraudulent LoUs (letters of undertaking) to...
10 things to know about ‘Modicare’
Isaac Gomes Asso. Editor Church Citizens' Voice As reported in Business Today (1st February 2018), the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on 1st February unveiled a new National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) under which health coverage of up to Rs 5 lakh...
OUT IN FORCE
The Telegraph, Kolkata 13th February 2018 Editorial Today's editorial in the Telegraph Calcutta pinpoints to the fact that it is a sign of sorry times that an individual needs to use the RTI Act to ask whether there is...
Pope Francis, a brewing crisis and ‘feminine genius’
LA CROIX INTERNATIONAL Robert Mickens, Rome Vatican City February 9, 2018 The biggest error Catholic leaders have made regarding the church’s response to priests abusing children has been the exclusion of women leading the policy-making process. Events in the...
CBCI conference in Bangalore
Varghese Pamplanil Let the Excellencies, Lords, Beatitudes and Graces have their fun in the salubrious climate of Bangalore Look at the Catholic scenario in India, a Latin Catholic Church, a Syro- Malabar (SM) Catholic Church and a Malankara Church;...
Church Citizens’ Voice! An all-English Portal-CCV Why?
dr. james kottoor Church Citizen’s Voice (CCV) is an all-English portal to unite people of Goodwill around the world. It is inspired by the radiant image of a beaming Jesus triumphant over his cross. That is life, crushing...
The Cul-de-sacs of Christianity!
(Cul-de-sac means: blind alley, dead end, route or course leading nowhere) By Varghese Pamplanil This much researched article makes us conscious of the many trespasses Christianity is guilty of. In the west, this religion has lost its soul and in...
New turn to Chile’s Sex abuse case! Pope Francis did receive Chilean sex abuse victim’s letter, reports media
La Croix International February 6, 2018 The pope had strongly stated when on a recent visit to Chile that no victims had come forward to denounce the cover-up Cover image: Chilean Father Fernando Karadima leaves after attending a...
China-Vatican deal shocks Chinese Catholics
LA CROIX INTERNATIONAL ucanews.com reporter Hong Kong China February 6, 2018 In this file photo, Pope Francis is flanked, by Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.) Chinese...
