Opinion | Articles | Penny Rose Chinir | 02-Sep-2022
Brief History of Moyon Women Organization (BSR) in Manipur The Moyon tribe is one of the thirty-three recognised STs of Manipur enlisted in 1956. They belong to the Indo-Mongoloid group of races and speak the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan gro.....
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai | 02-Sep-2022
Bell – Flags - Nectar The Amrit Mahotsav is over. This 15th August I had to hoist the flag at one event and arrange for it at another. At both events I spoke on the “Har Ghar Tiranga” (The Tricolour in Every home) campaign. My first thoughts went bac.....
Current Updates | NE Brief | NECARF Rep | 02-Sep-2022
The North East Catholic Research Forum (NECARF) held its first ever physical meeting in Guwahati on August 20, 22 since formation in September 2020. The Conference was hosted at the Dob Bosco Institute of Management, Kharguli, on August 20, 2022, attended.....
Opinion | Articles | Editorial Team | 16-Aug-2022
To Cardinal Oswald Gracias CBCI President & Papal Advisor (diocesebombay@gmail.com) Abp Leopoldo Girelli Apostolic Nuncio to India (nuntius@apostolicnunciatureindia.com) Cardinal Luis Tagle Prefect Congretio pro Gentium Evangelizatione, Vatican.....
Opinion | Articles | Pamreihor Khashimwo | 16-Aug-2022
India expressed ‘deep concern’ over the detention of top Myanmar and the military takeover in February 2021. Since then Myanmar’s position in the world has declined significantly. The military junta’s execution of four political activists on July 25, 2022.....
Opinion | Articles | Benjamin Chang | 13-Aug-2022
Our family joined the Catholic Church in 1988, when Lt. Rev. Sr. Blessilia was serving as the Superior of Tuensang Convent. My mother was serious about our new-found faith. She was quick to pick up the prayers and songs. We had evening rosary service ever.....
Opinion | Articles | Editorial Team | 13-Aug-2022
Joseph Le Dac Thang, SJ Humans are gregarious animals, which means they have a dire need to communicate with a certain community. And the religious are no exception. The peculiarities of the consecrated life mean men and women have to give up or limit so.....
Opinion | Articles | Penny Rose Chinir | 12-Aug-2022
The Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice = FMA) founded by St John Bosco with co-foundress St Maria Domenica Mazzarello at Mornese, Italy is also known as Salesian Sisters of St John Bosco or simply FMA. The FMA province of M.....
Current Updates | NE Brief | NECARF Rep | 11-Jul-2022
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Opinion | Articles | Benjamin Chang | 10-Jul-2022
A brief History of St. Peter’s Church Kiphire Town St. Peter Church marked its beginning on 18th Jan. 1972 with the visit of Late Rev. Fr. Castelino S.J and Late Rev. Fr. Edwin Goveas S.J, and later when Fr. Castelino S.J settled down here on 16th Feb .....
Opinion | Articles | John Dayal | 10-Jul-2022
Dialogue, With Care My heart goes out to Bishop Thomas Dabre of Pune. An apology has been wrested out of him for his remarks at a public function which were carried by the local media. “The Christian Community accepts RSS ideology and principles. We n.....
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai | 10-Jul-2022
Is Celibacy a Delicacy? A delicacy is usually related to food, my favourite indulgence. It is different from the daily fare of dal-chawal or sabji-roti. For me a delicacy is something like succulent pork chops. Obviously one cannot eat that everyday. .....
Current Updates | NE Brief | NECARF Rep | 10-Jul-2022
In a significant move, Nabam Tuki, former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, wrote to Pema Khandu, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, resolve the differences between Buddhist and Christian community of Tawang district, which erupted due to objections .....
Education | College | NECARF Rep | 10-Jul-2022
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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.....
The dictionary meaning of ‘persecution’ reads as ‘unfair or cruel treatment based on race, religion, or political belief’. Therefore, persecution can occur through racial discrimination or political exploitation and is not necessarily limited to the relig.....
Prior to June 27, 2025, not many people in this country and elsewhere would have heard of Chengu@Sudharsan@Chandu Hansda, who at the age of 13 turned into a murderer when he joined the mob that brutally burnt alive an Australian missionary, Graham Stewart.....
India is a country that boasts staggering diversity—a colourful mix few in the world have the privilege of sharing. Since independence and the enactment of the constitution, freedom, liberty, and equality before the law has always been our treasured right.....
This time, 1.39 billion Catholics across the globe were fortunate to see the white smoke come out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on the second day as Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected by the cardinal conclave in the fourth round of voting, one less than .....
The Vatican News released a video of Pope Francis extending Easter greetings to a multitude of people at St. Peter’s Square in Rome, which was one day before his final journey to the eternal world. A close look at that video reveals that the Holy Father w.....
The Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI), regarded as a father figure by an estimated 23 million Catholics in this country, has yet again shown lack of wisdom while taking decision on crucial matters. While the organization may like to downplay som.....
The history of the church is replete with stories of persecution; the crucifixion of Christ itself being the greatest of all. Rome, where the Vatican, the supreme seat of the Pontiff, stands today, in fact was one of the foremost places where Christian pe.....
His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, in his book, Toward A True Kinship of Faith, wrote, “I have boundless respect for my Buddhist faith, but to see it within the context of its brother and sister religions has afforded me a vision of the grandeur and exten.....
According to the media report, the son of a pastor, Ramesh Baghel, has been prevented from burying the dead body of his late father in the village cemetery because some Hindutva activists from his village did not allow the burial to take place. He appeale.....
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Opinion | Articles | Benjamin Chang
Lt. Catechist Ntheo Louis Yanthan of Lakhuti Village was a Baptist Pastor, who later embraced Catholic Faith and became one of the longest serving Catechist in the Diocese of Kohima, Nagaland. He served as a Baptist Pastor and Catholic Catechist for 35 (t.....
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During his Sunday Angelus on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Pope Francis reminds faithful that the day they were baptized, we became children of God forever, and this date of great grace must be remembered and celebrated. At our Baptism, we became.....
Opinion | Articles | Benjamin Chang
St. Thomas Church is the first Diocesan Catholic Mission Centre to be opened in Nagaland, also the third Catholic Mission Centre of Nagaland after Kohima and Lakhuti Catholic Mission Centres’. The establishment of St. John’s School, Tuensang may be said t.....
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai
Has the dust begun to settle or the temperature begun to rise, despite the advancing monsoon? This weather barometer is political not climatic. With the elections over, the Union Cabinet in place, the Speaker also elected and proceedings in the Lok Sa.....
Current Updates | NE Brief | NECARF Rep
After being deprived of the opportunity to come together for social or spiritual get-together for two long years, members of the North East Catholic Community, Delhi (NECCOD), took full advantage of the relaxations allowed by the government following impr.....
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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.....
Current Updates | Culture | TS Shimreingam Angelus
Khangkhui Mangsor Cave is one of the first known caves in Tangkhul area, located between Khangkhui and Nungshong villages. During the World War II, it served as a refugee camp, as it was in the midst of a thick jungle (in those days), with hardly any acce.....
Opinion | Articles | Victor Ferrao
When dissent is silenced, minorities are almost erased; life is castrated and not allowed to bloom to freedom. We have stepped into what has been aptly named as cancel culture. Often cancel culture hides under the cover of a religion, tradition, nationali.....
Opinion | Articles | M L Satyan
I watched this video. I found that the focus of this video is on the “punishments” that God seems to have given to those who “desecrated church buildings.” Maybe, some of those who desecrated the church might have repented and an inner conversion took pla.....
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai
Dangers of a post-Christian world I recently read an article “Why are Christians Persecuted Today?” by Mumbai Jesuit Myron Pereira. It was a brilliant analysis that, unfortunately, offered no solutions. It forced me to think. Are we indeed living in wh.....
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Articles | Cedric Prakash | 01-Dec-2025
On 26 November, the nation will once again observe ‘Constitution Day’! There will be the usual plethora of speeches (ad nauseam!) of ‘how important the Constitution is for all of us’, ‘why it is important to safeguard it’, the fact that we have the best C.....
Articles | Isaac Harold Gomes | 27-Nov-2025
Since my last report of 10th November on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), an unprecedented reverse migration into Bangladesh has begun through Hakimpur, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India-Bangladesh check-post. On 23.11.2025 Anandabazar.com rep.....
Articles | John Dayal | 27-Nov-2025
There are hardly any Christian MPs and MLAs in India other than those elected on a political party ticket from Kerala, Andhra, Telangana, West Bengal, Karnataka, Goa, Orissa and the tiny-population north east states of Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunac.....
Articles | Chhotebhai | 20-Nov-2025
There are two reasons why I remember the Yellow Card. The first dates back to boarding school more than 60 years ago. We had monthly tests for which we got cards – Gold for excellence, Blue for good work, Yellow for average marks and Pink for failure. Dur.....
Articles | Cedric Prakash | 20-Nov-2025
The Catholic Church, will observe the ‘World Day of the Poor’, on 16 November 2025. The day has a special significance this year, since it comes in the wake of Pope Leo XIV’s first major papal document: An Apostolic Exhortation addressed “to all Christian.....
People's Edit | Capt. Eddie Viegas | 16-Nov-2025
“‘Tis Education that forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.” (Alexander Pope) Indeed, if you ask any of the youngster in schools or colleges, “What is education?” You will get a plethora of replies ranging from getting a.....
Editorial Pick | 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.....
NE Brief | 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.....
Editorial Pick | 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, .....
NE Brief | NECARF Rep | 09-Sep-2025
The North East Catholic Committee of Delhi (NECCOD) accorded a warm welcome to their new members who had joined them in the Delhi NCR region with spiritual and a social gathering worthy of the colours mix of the region they come from. This was the 33rd oc.....
Editorial Pick | Editorial team | 25-Jun-2025
Guwahati, June 25, 2025 – The Northeast Bishops Council’s Commission for Education has appointed a new leadership team, with Fr. Dr. Paul Pudussery, a Holy Cross priest, taking the helm. This transition marks the third leadership handover since the commis.....
Editorial Pick | Editorial team | 13-Jun-2025
In a quiet corner of Sikkim’s Lingzey, Gairigaon, an artist has been creating entire worlds inside bottles—one intricate house at a time. Meet Mr Francis Rai, the man behind Francis Bottle Crafts, whose passion for miniature architecture has turned into b.....