Babies of Burmese refugees in India, may receive baptism, but Churches cannot give them baptism certificates. Christian parishes in the northeastern state of Mizoram have decided not to issue baptism certificates to refugee babies from Myanmar, because of a lack clear government policy on the status of refugees fleeing across the border from that conflict-torn […]
At least 23 journalists and media houses came under attack by miscreants in the three Northeast states of Tripura, Assam and Manipur in 2021. Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) states this in its report titled – “India Press Freedom Report 2021”, which was released on Wednesday [February 2]. In its report, the RRAG has […]
Amidst growing Human Rights issues in China, countries like Japan and U.S. have are using the Olympics as a sort of political ping-pong game to showcase their disagreement. Japan has said it won’t dispatch a government delegation to the Olympic event, but refused to call it a boycott. Probably because of diplomatic reasons, as China […]
India waited with baited breath as Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget for the current fiscal year in the Parliament on Tuesday. Predictably, the budget was praised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who said ‘This budget brings in new hopes and opportunities for the people. It strengthens the economy; it’s full of […]
Even as the Winter Olympics opens in Beijing on Friday (4th February), Chinese authorities have detained activists in their homes and sent others to jail. Censors have shut down the social media accounts of prominent critics. Officials have also warned participating athletes that protest could bring prosecution. Chinese citizens and foreign athletes participating in the […]
The Covid- 19 pandemic has proven one thing: that in the hard-nosed world of vaccine politics and big business pharmaceuticals, ‘charity’ and ‘goodwill’ take a back-seat. This week, the WHO announced the global milestone of having produced vaccines for 10 billion people worldwide against the covid virus. When French President Emmanuel Macron took the Covid-19 […]
Dimapur: Nagaland is to have a National Career Service Centre for the Differently Abled (NCSC-DA). It will benefit an estimated 29,000 Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) in the northeastern state. The Industrial Training Institute (ITI) campus at Khushiabill, Dimapur will host the proposed centre. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the Nagaland government and […]
A forty two rear old American, a former battalion commander has been arrested of the dreaded Islamic State in Syria. According to the FBI, Allison Fluke-Ekren trained women and children to use assault rifles and suicide belts. The New York Times reports that she was charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization. Sources […]
Fr Cedric Prakash SJ forwards an appeal to all liberal citizens as well as to the Church Outside the St. Michael’s Church in Mahim Mumbai is a powerful slogan. “God will always abide with me, even if I retreat!” In many ways this creative caption sums up the raging controversy on ‘Abide With Me’ that […]
For the people of El Salvador, Sarurday, 22 January 2022 was more than just a red-letter day. Three of their sons, Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande and his two lay associates, 72-year-old Manuel Solorzano and 15-year-old Nelson Rutilio Lemus (and Italian Franciscan missionary Fr. Cosme Spessotto who was also martyred) will be beatified in San Salvador. […]
Cedric Prakash SJ, human rights, reconciliation and peace activist/ writer reflects on the recent chain of events taking place in India, and asks a question that has been begging for an answer. ‘The Quint’ (3 January 2022) has an article ‘Events on Christ will end with “Jai Sri Ram”: Behind Church Attacks in Haryana’. The […]
Jesuit activist and social rights campaigner Cedric Prakash SJ examines the latest action in Gujarat against a shelter run by the MC sisters: State actors are trying to implicate the nuns for ‘frauduent and forced conversion’. It is been happening with frightening regularity all over India and particularly in States run by the Bhartiya Janata […]
