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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
On this World Food Day- 16th October- Human Rights campaigner Fr Cedric Prakash SJ – gives us serious food for thought. Come 16 October – and the world once again is together as one, to focus on the most basic need for a person’s survival: food! The first ‘World Food Day’ was observed in 1994, […]
The Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on Thursday said that the government is targeting to strengthen the education of Forensic Science in India. The centre is aiming to make it mandatory for forensic teams to visit crime scenes that attract imprisonment of more than 6 years. He admitted that currently India is insufficient in trained […]
Last week in the district of Kandhamal in Odisha four families were kicked out of their own houses. The reason for this was their faith. Their houses were demolished and they were not allowed to access common public resources, such as the village well. Because of this hostile environment some of them had to flee […]
Sir, It was on Aug 11 that a heinous crime took place to a boy merely 16 years old. Difficult to say, that it is fortunate or unfortunate, that the boy ( Nitish Kumar ) died today after going through unbearable suffering for more than 40 days. Who would have thought that one morning would […]
Christians in the Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh state are in a state of apprehension and fear, following repeated threats by self-styled Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) activists that they plan to demolish all ‘illegal’ churches in the district. Even though no serious incidents have been reported two days past the deadline, locals say that a […]
Today, 26th September, is the 107th World Day of Migrants and Refugees which is observed by the Catholic Church. Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ reflects on our attitudes towards the ‘other’ people. Read on: On 23 September 2021, two civilians were killed and several others including nine policemen were injured in violence during an eviction drive […]
Cases of communal violence in 2020 nearly doubled from 2019 even as the country witnessed a strict restriction on outdoor activities due to COVID-19 pandemic during the past year, says the latest government data. The National Crime Report Bureau ( NCRB ) has released the annual report of 2020, which shockingly stated that there were […]
Nitish Kumar, a 16 year old boy (who, incidentally, is the namesake of the Bihar Chief Minister), from a village in Gaya district, is currently swathed in bandages at Apollo Burn Hospital in Patna. Over 55 percent of his body has no skin. His skin peeled off from the neck downwards, after ‘unidentified’ men on […]
