A Fatal Hubris
Rev. Valson Thampu in THE TELEGRAPH INDIA 17 May 2021 Rev. Valson Thampu writes in his inimitable style, this time drawing from his forte, William Shakespeare. He writes Leaders are of two kinds. The first type loves the...
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Almost Half Of Millennials ‘Don’t Know, Care, Or Believe God Exists’, Survey Finds
UNILAD 21 May 2021 Niamh Shackleton Mr Varghese Pamplanil has recommended the following article for the enlightenment of readers of Church Citizens' Voice. A new survey has found that 43% of millennials in the United States ‘don’t...
STAN TAKES A STAND
Cover photo: Fr. Stan Swamy SJ (right) at a protest by indigenous people. -*Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ 21 May 2021 It was quintessential Stan! In a manner which has come to characterize him Jesuit Fr Stan Swamy...
War always in the land of the Prince of Peace! Israel’s Gaza war ends, but will peace endure?
Cover photo: Palestinians run from sound grenades thrown by Israeli police in front of the Dome of the Rock in the al-Aqsa mosque complex in Jerusalem, Friday, May 21, 202, as a cease-fire took effect between Hamas and Israel after a...
Former Civil Servants Slam Modi Govt for Mishandling Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic. But will Modi heed?
Cover photo: Workers prepare beds for a Covid-19 isolation center that was set up inside a stadium in Srinagar on April 27. Idrees Abbas/SOPA Images/Sipa USA THE WIRE 20 May 2021 In an open letter to the prime minister, a...
West Bengal Governor Dhankar’s aggressive posturing exposes BJP Bengal rout shock
19 May 2021 The ruling NDA dispensation at the Centre is simply not able to digest the stark reality that one lady on wheel chair, single-handedly made it bite the dust in the historic electoral battle of Bengal. ...
Gujarati poem criticises Modi govt’s handling of Covid resurgence: Poet dropped from literary events and award nominations
Cover Photo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds an online conference with officials of nine states on Tuesday 18 May on Covid management. He described the officials as "Field Commanders" in the fight against Covid-19. PTI 19 May 2021 Mehul...
Government’s COVID Mess Ruined Our Self-Respect. How to ‘be Positive’?
The govt’s handling of COVID has made a mockery of ‘atmanirbharta’ and assaulted our ‘atma-samman’: Shashi Tharoor THE QUINT 13 May 2021 Note: The article below by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, has been recommended for CCV readers, by...
SAVIOURS OF HUMANITY ? INDIAN LEADERSHIP’S TALL CLAIM HAS A HUMPTY DUMPTY FALL!
Cover photo: Beneficiaries stand in a queue to recieve COVID-19 vaccine dose, at a vaccination camp in Patiala. PTI Photo/Naveen Sharma Isaac Gomes India is the largest manufacturer of vaccines in the world. For years, it has manufactured...
Reflection on Pope’s Synodal Speech Church: Synod, Pyramidal or People of God?
james kottoor Note within Note: We are living at a time when “Constant” doesn’t exist. The only constant is CHANGE! I wanted to write some thing precisely on the above tittle and I found I had written it already and...
COVID-19 is probably India’s greatest challenge since independence, says former RBI Governor and renowned Economist Raghuram Rajan
BUSINESS TODAY 16 May 2021 On Saturday 15th May 2021, speaking at a virtual event organised by the University of Chicago Center in Delhi, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and world-renowned economist Raghuram Rajan observed...
By the rivers of the heartland and across Vindhyas, proof which politics sucks and which works
Cover photo: The district magistrate informed that teh bodies will be fished out of teh river and cremated with full rites. (Photo: India Today) 15 May, 2021 Shekhar Gupta Editor-in-Chief and Chairman Politics & economics are at the heart...
To ‘Come and See’ is to ‘Be and Do’! ( A reflection on World Communications Day:16 May 2021
*Fr Cedric Prakash SJ Pope Francis has once again thrown a challenge to Catholic Communicators in his annual message for ‘World Communications Day’ which this year falls on Sunday 16 May. In his typically direct yet profound...
Communal harmony, not violence please!
The Guardian view on intercommunal violence in Israel: a dangerous development with deep roots! Guardian Editorial, Fri 14 May 2021 Political rhetoric has cultivated hatred. Both Palestinian and Jewish citizens are paying the price. In the land of the so-called Prince ...
Here comes ‘World Laity Synod’!
Joseph mattappally (Associate editor – CCV) Here is another critical step from Global Catholic Church laity at unrest. It is a fact that since 10 years, not a single Syro Malabar Bishop’s Synod had a layman concern for consideration. This...
Covid: Opposition parties urge Modi to take measures to save India
Cover photo: Citizens stand in a queue at Thane Nurses Training Vaccination Center to receive a dose of COVID-19 vaccine, in Thane. PTI https://www.ndtv.com/video/news/news/bodies-found-floating-in-ganga-in-up-day-after-bihar-horror-585800 13 May 2021 Sanjay K. Jha, New Delhi Suggestions range from wider vaccine procurement...
All sleepy Congress leaders must go! Congress needs total overhaul in Kerala!
Cover photo: Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee President Mullappally Ramachandran. PTI THE NEW INDIA EXPRESS 06 May 2021 The manner of defeat means this election outcome will be more than a lingering pain for both the Congress-led UDF and...
Read below a life experience in world Press! The toll of Modi’s complacency – Why Covid is ravaging India?
By Jo McGowan in La Croix, April 24, 2021 Read more at: A healthcare worker pulls a patient suffering from COVID-19 on a stretcher outside Guru Teg Bahadur hospital in New Delhi, April 24, 2021 (CNS photo/Adnan Abidi, Reuters)....
Behind the Present Medical Catastrophe Woes of One-Man Rule!
This article by Archbp. Thomas Menamparampil is published specially because of its objective, balanced news analysis with utmost human concern of the current catastrophe India is facing under the fierce onslaught of Covid 19 killing precious human lives daily by...
Mischief begins: Post-poll Violence in Bengal
THE EDITORIAL BOARD THE TELEGRAPH CALCUTTA 06th May 2021 A very fitting and timely editorial by the Editorial Board of The Telegraph Calcutta to alert the incumbent TMC Government (which has been voted to power for the third...
