Two strategic pullbacks by the BJP **//** I AM MALALA! **//** Quantum of Sorrows **//** CEDOK extends relief to Mon Town **//** The Conversion Fraud
Opinion | Articles | John Dayal | 03-Sep-2026
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s two pullbacks in August of high-profile bills it had every intention of passing may have seemed a rainbow in a sky otherwise made dark and gloomy by unabated acts of violence and systemic persecution of Christians in sta.....
Opinion | Articles | Cedric Prakash | 03-Sep-2026
I am Malala: I was born on 12 July 1997 as Malala Yousafzai in the Swat District of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. My family was lower–middle class. It was certainly not easy to make both ends meet. My father was an educationist and.....
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai | 03-Sep-2026
August has been a rather depressing and distressing month for me, despite my telling others that we should never give up hope. But this last month could best be described as “My cup of woes brimmed over”......
Opinion | Articles | Benjamin Chang | 20-Aug-2026
A relief effort of this kind relies heavily on coordination, trust, and local partnership. CEDOK’s success in Mon was deeply amplified by the active presence, support, and collaboration of key administrative and civil society bodies. The organization exte.....
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai | 19-Aug-2026
Can the Christians of India, who constitute barely 2.3% of the population, force Hindus to convert, more so when almost all authorities, from the local police constable, the Executive, Judiciary right up to the President of India, belong to the majority.....
Opinion | Articles | Thou Ngaoni Paul | 19-Aug-2026
From the perspective of Catholic theology and canon law, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s fundamental error was not simply that he questioned aspects of the Second Vatican Council, but that he chose disobedience to the Church’s legitimate authority. While the.....
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai | 16-Aug-2026
The previous article was just a brief commentary on another person’s testimony, about the gross inadequacy of Sunday School/catechism classes that largely focused on stories about what happened, rather than why things happen......
Opinion | Articles | Isaac Harold Gomes | 16-Aug-2026
In his address from the Red Fort on India’s 80th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called upon all Indians to embrace of ‘Make.....
Opinion | Articles | Thou Ngaoni Paul | 16-Aug-2026
Abstract: This article examines the historical conflict between the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) and the Holy See, focusing on the Society’s objections to certain reforms of the Second Vatican Council and the subsequent development of its disciplinary.....
Opinion | Articles | Benjamin Chang | 10-Aug-2026
As the pioneer cradle of Catholicism among the Rengma people, Tesophenyu Village holds a unique and revered place in the history of the regional Church. Looking back to the historical years of God's grace, the community reflects with profound joy and grat.....
Opinion | Articles | Cedric Prakash | 09-Aug-2026
The Ninth of August 2026 spells ‘Courage’: It was on this day in 1942 that the ‘Quit India Movement’ went into action and thousands of our freedom fighters who were on the streets were arrested. The previous day (8 August), at the Bombay session of the Al.....
Opinion | Articles | Capt. Eddie Viegas | 09-Aug-2026
Though the Merchant Navy is one of the attractive career options for young students with a science background, it is not adequately explored and understood by many, except in states where shipping as a career is traditionally prevalent and widespread. In.....
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai | 05-Aug-2026
Can catechism lead to atheism? Not surprisingly, it can. I am sharing below the testimony of a Sunday School teacher of 20 year’s standing. It brought me to tears. If you too are a parent, priest, pastor, catechist, student or a critically aware young per.....
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai | 30-Jul-2026
About 10 bishops and 50 theologians from across the country gathered at the Pastoral Centre, Agra on 25th/ 26th July for the 27th Colloquium of the CBCI’s Commission for Doctrine. As a layman I was the only cockroach. The theme was: A Rereading of the The.....
The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026 has created a sense fear among the Charitable and Social organisations. It is widely suspected that the bill was intended to target minority faith-based NGOs working for the poorest of the poor in.....
One is not sure how many people in the world would have known or heard about a country by the name of Cabo Verde prior to the commencement of the FIFA World Cup 2026. But beginning with the night the former Portuguese colony created history by holding Spa.....
In May 2026, a popular priest, Fr. Bomax Pereira, suffered a cardiac arrest, and he was treated at the Goa Medical College. He was in the intensive care unit for a few days before he finally gave in and left while still in the ICU. Fr. Bolmax was one prie.....
The most notable bright spot of the 2026 assembly elections is clearly the manner in which voters in Kerala exercised their franchise; Not because they voted any particular party to power, but because they avoided voting along communal lines. The victorie.....
In March, a Los Angeles court hearing a petition filed by a 20-year-old woman, Kaley, who was a minor at the time of filing the case, held Meta and Google guilty of coming up with attention-grabbing applications, resulting in minor addiction to YouTube an.....
In a country where cricket is not just a game but considered next only to religion, a spectacle unfolded on March 1 inside the mammoth and iconic Eden Gardens cricket stadium in Kolkata, where the Indian and West Indies teams played the last of the Super.....
When Himanta Biswa Sarma exited his parent party, the Indian National Congress, in 2015 and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, not too many eyebrows were raised since such leapfrogging from one political party to the other was nothing new in Indian politi.....
A German Lutheran pastor, Martin Niemöller, was against the Communist ideology and also against Semitism. His distaste for them made him a natural ally and supporter of Rudolf Hitler. When Hitler ultimately assumed power and insisted on the supremacy of t.....
India is fortunate to have given birth to three outstanding sons, Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, and Mahatma Gandhi, who inspired generations not only in India but across the world. Apart from their liberal thinking, their thoughts on religious f.....
On the intervening night of November 2nd and 3rd, the Indian women’s cricket team created history by winning the ICC Women’s World Cup for the first time at the DY Patil stadium in Navi Mumbai. They defeated South Africa, a team dubbed by many cricketing.....
Many ordinary people who are not connected to music and art might not have even heard of Zubeen Garg, despite being an iconic artist and a person who cared for others. However, after his unfortunate and untimely demise on September 19, 2025, social media.....
During the monsoon session of the Parliament in July 2025, Union Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar informed the house that student suicide cases accounted for 7.6 per cent of all suicide cases reported across India in 2022, showing a slight.....
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai
Had I entered a Spelling Bee contest I would have failed miserably, considering that I have mis-spelt the title of Pope Francis’ encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” that he wrote during the Covid pandemic. Unlike previous Popes, he wrote in Italian, not Latin. Se.....
Opinion | Articles | Victor Ferrao
‘To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric’ writes Theodor Adorno. In the broadest sense to be barbaric means to be uncultured. Julia Kristeva tells us that the word originated in the context of Greek perception of other languages as inarticulate mumbl.....
Opinion | Articles | David R. Syiemlieh
Catholics missionaries were the first among the Christian Missions to have entered the North East region. Their attention through the 18th and early 19th centuries was the pastoral care of three Portuguese settlements of Rangamati, located on the easternm.....
Opinion | People's Edit | Joseph M Thohrii
It was one of those hot and humid middle of June, 2014 that I reached at the entrance gate of St. Mary’s Church, Rippon street, Kolkata where I spend one year of my weekends ministry during my Theology days at Morning Star Regional Seminary, Barrackpore......
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai
On Sunday 10th December I heard the first reading from Isaiah (40:1-5, 9-11) on freedom from the Babylonian exile. The reference to Babylon reminded me of the foot-tapping Boney M. song “By the Rivers of Babylon”. The music is pulsating, though I’m pretty.....
Current Updates | NE Brief | NECARF Rep
In an election conducted by the Election Commission of the North East Catholic Community of Delhi (NECCOD) on Dec. 5, 2021, a sixteen member Executive Council was declared elected, with Thomas Ngaihte, as the President. Ngaihte presently is an Additional .....
Opinion | Articles | Irene Salam
It is extremely common in Manipur to bracket the Meiteis (the largest indigenous community of the Manipur Valley who profess Hinduism, albeit with a mixture of their primeval religion Sanamahism) with the Meitei Pangals who profess Islam. Who are the Meit.....
Current Updates | NE Brief | NECARF Rep
With the approval of the St Xavier’s University Bill, 2020 by the Cabinet of Meghalaya Government on November 5, 2020, the Jesuits are all set to establish a University in the state of Meghalaya. The St. Xavier’s University, which would be managed by the .....
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai
Focus now shifted to the Camerlengo (the papal custodian till the election of the new pope). It was now his duty to follow the guidelines for the election of a new pope as specified in Universi Dominici Gregis (UDG), promulgated by Pope John Paul II on 2.....
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai
Trains and aircraft have emergency exits. Not so with politics. I vividly recall this day 50 years ago. I was attending a Youth Animators’ Training Programme in Allahabad, the epicentre of the Emergency earthquake. It was promulgated by Prime Minister Ind.....
Opinion | Articles | Cedric Prakash
On Sunday 1 June, the Catholic Church will observe the 59th World Day of Social Communications. The day is significant becuse ‘communications’ is an important and integral dimension of the Church. ‘Communications Day’ is one of the oldent ‘special days’ .....
Articles | John Dayal | 03-Sep-2026
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s two pullbacks in August of high-profile bills it had every intention of passing may have seemed a rainbow in a sky otherwise made dark and gloomy by unabated acts of violence and systemic persecution of Christians in sta.....
Articles | Cedric Prakash | 03-Sep-2026
I am Malala: I was born on 12 July 1997 as Malala Yousafzai in the Swat District of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. My family was lower–middle class. It was certainly not easy to make both ends meet. My father was an educationist and.....
Articles | Chhotebhai | 03-Sep-2026
August has been a rather depressing and distressing month for me, despite my telling others that we should never give up hope. But this last month could best be described as “My cup of woes brimmed over”......
Articles | Benjamin Chang | 20-Aug-2026
A relief effort of this kind relies heavily on coordination, trust, and local partnership. CEDOK’s success in Mon was deeply amplified by the active presence, support, and collaboration of key administrative and civil society bodies. The organization exte.....
Articles | Chhotebhai | 19-Aug-2026
Can the Christians of India, who constitute barely 2.3% of the population, force Hindus to convert, more so when almost all authorities, from the local police constable, the Executive, Judiciary right up to the President of India, belong to the majority.....
Articles | Thou Ngaoni Paul | 19-Aug-2026
From the perspective of Catholic theology and canon law, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s fundamental error was not simply that he questioned aspects of the Second Vatican Council, but that he chose disobedience to the Church’s legitimate authority. While the.....
Articles | NECARF Rep | 17-Jul-2026
New Delhi, 16 July 2026 (CCBI): Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Albert Hemrom (57), Bishop of Dibrugarh, as the Coadjutor Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Guwahati, Assam. The appointment was made public on Thursday, 16 July 2026......
Articles | Editorial team | 09-Apr-2026
Arunachal Pradesh, located in the eastern Himalayas, is one of India’s most culturally diverse and geographically isolated states. Formerly known as the North East Frontier Agency (NEFA), it became a Union Territory in 1972 and attained full statehood in.....
Articles | Editorial team | 31-Dec-2025
Hon’ble Smt Draupadi Murmu, PRESIDENT OF INDIA Rashtrapati Bhawan New Delhi presidentofindia@rb.nic.in 31st December 2025 Respected Rashtrapatiji, Sub: Christmas attacks on Christians Namaskar! I respectfully place before you some of the.....
Articles | Editorial team | 06-Nov-2025
Attacks Against Christians Increased by 500% Since 2014: Rights Groups New Delhi: On November 4, Christian rights activists assembled at the Press Club of India to release a report about an alarming and sustained annual surge in incidents of violence a.....
Articles | NECARF Rep | 16-Oct-2025
October 14, 2025: Sr Rose Paite, an MSMHC nun from Mizoram, received the prestigious National Award from the Catholic Mental Health Ministry (CMHM) at the World Mental Health Day Conference in Kerala. The prestigious award was handed over to the recipie.....
Articles | Editorial team | 24-Sep-2025
Synodality: Why No, and Why Yes Some have hoped that our new pope would ease up a little on this matter of synodality. Instead, Pope Leo has expressed a strong desire to continue along the path of synodality. For example: “Synodality becomes a mindset, .....