The North East Catholic Research Forum is saddened by the demise of Pope Francis and join the Catholic community in mourning his death in prayer.
Current Updates | NE Brief | NECARF Rep | 15-Nov-2020
In a simple ceremony following the NECCOD monthly Mass on November 1, 2020, a Calendar for 2021 was released on by Rev. Fr. Vijay Baretto, Chaplin of NECCOD, in the Archdiocese of Delhi, at the Sacred Heart Cathedral. The attractive Calendar, with select.....
Current Updates | NE Brief | NECARF Rep | 15-Nov-2020
The Diocese of Darjeeling bid a tearful farewell to Rev. Fr. Leonard Tamsang, who breathed his last on the morning of October 29, 2020 at Gianora Home, 8th Mile, Kalimpong, where he was residing along with fellow retired Priests. Born on August 8, 1942 in.....
Current Updates | NE Brief | NECARF Rep | 15-Nov-2020
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 .....
Current Updates | NE Brief | NECARF Rep | 15-Nov-2020
In what may be termed as the willingness of the Church to opens its door to straying members, St. Paul’s Parish Pallel, under the Archdiocese of Imphal, rectified 18 couples on 21st Oct 2020, alongside one regular Holy Marriage, which was solemnized by th.....
Opinion | Articles | Desmond L. Kharmawphlang | 14-Oct-2020
The underlined fundamental challenge facing every society is to create political, economic and social situations and systems that promote peace, human welfare and the sustainability of the environment upon which life depends. To even begin to understand a.....
Opinion | Articles | Khansu Vialo Zingkhai | 14-Oct-2020
Every year parents in India spend fortunes for the education of their children irrespective of their economic status, despite constitutional provision for free and compulsory education up to the age of 14. Following the 86th Constitutional amendment in 20.....
Opinion | People's Edit | G.L. Khing | 14-Oct-2020
I write this Article to depict some of the reel life of Bollywood in contrast to the real life of the Indian society concerning the notion of rape and violence. The conservative Indian social life was well appreciated despite some evil practices that exis.....
Opinion | People's Edit | Raile Rocky Ziipao | 14-Oct-2020
Giving a name to the newborn child in a family is an important event and a marker of identity. Among the Catholic family, often a child is named after a saint or given a biblical name during baptism. Can a child grow up to be a good Catholic/Christian wit.....
Current Updates | Culture | Philip Lyngdoh | 14-Oct-2020
Once upon a time, in the idyllic village of Rangjyrwit that perched daintily on a beautiful hill slope, lived two bosom friends, Nik and Shing. They were companions since childhood and remained inseparable even after they married. Nik came from a rich and.....
Current Updates | NE Brief | NECARF Rep | 14-Oct-2020
In an effort to continue engaging its members with online activities during the Covid-19 Lockdown, the North East Catholic Community, Delhi (NECCOD), conducted a Bible quiz, Painting and Essay writing competitions, which received massive response from the.....
Current Updates | NE Brief | NECARF Rep | 14-Oct-2020
Don Bosco College Stadium in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, has been named after the former Chief Minister, late Dorjee Khandu, to be known as the Dorjee Khandu Memorial Stadium. The Stadium, which is nearing completion, is now already an iconic landmark in.....
Current Updates | NE Brief | NECARF Rep | 14-Oct-2020
After seven months of isolation due to the pandemic, the Parishioners of St. Peter's Church, Gaucharan, Gangtok, East Sikkim district, finally broke the silence by organizing a Eucharistic celebration on September 27, 2020, strictly observing all the form.....
Education | College | NECARF Rep | 05-Oct-2020
NISCORT opens Admissions for Course in Mass Media and Journalism.....
Opinion | Articles | Felix Machado | 16-Sep-2020
Introduction Certainly, we are all born equal and we all possess the God given dignity. Our right to equality and to our dignity have been given to us by God and we belong to God alone. The Second Vatican Council declared: “A sense of the dignity of th.....
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.....
Dealing with the differences between the laity and clergy, the two pillars of the church, is a perpetual problem for the Catholic Church. Though the problem is real and sometimes threatens to tear apart the cohesiveness of the synodal church, it has alway.....
The recent statement from the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court, proposing a regulatory body to oversee church properties akin to temple boards and waqf boards for Hindus and Muslims, undoubtedly raises concerns. However, given the number of controve.....
Pope Francis has already announced the names of 21 new Cardinals who will officially assume the new role on December 8th, 2024. Following their appointment as cardinal-elects, the Holy Father wrote a short but powerful letter to all these men, who would s.....
The All India Catholic Union, which is the apex body of lay Catholics in India, was born well ahead of India's independence. It is a union with inclusive representation, upholding the Catholic faithful's mandate from all three rites of the Catholic family.....
Wayanad in Kerala is considered to be one of the rural districts in the state that has many attractions: a wildlife sanctuary, lush green forest cover, high altitude comfort, home to animals including Asian elephants, tigers, and leopards, and mesmerizing.....
The Parliamentary Elections 2024 have been one hell of an epic exercise, not because they were conducted in a country known as the world’s largest democracy, but simply because of the manner in which the entire exercise was carried out. Between the first.....
As India engages herself in a general election since April 19th and braces for results on June 4, 2024, the air is thick with anxiety. The potential return of the Modi-led BJP, with its fascist undertones and anti-minority stance, threatens the very fabri.....
Opinion | Articles | Chhotebhai
Back in 2000 Arun Shourie wrote a book “Harvesting Souls – Missionaries, their designs and claims”. It was a condemnation of everything remotely connected with missionaries. In the Indian context it was about our Christian presence. For those who came.....
Opinion | Poem | Anthony Dias
Politicians of all ilk on the prowl, find always a way To weaken, even subvert, democracy’s sway When they smell defeat due to anti-incumbency The poor women voters they begin to fancy! If ‘poverty is the biggest environment polluter’ It also is m.....
Opinion | Articles | John Dayal
The absolute sense of impunity generated in the administrative apparatus of India by the pandemic lockdowns, and the consequent absence of civil society on the streets and in the courts, has aggravated targeted hate and violence against Christians by non-.....
Opinion | Articles | Benjamin Chang
Christian Churches have played an important role in bringing people together from different walks of life as one people, as one Christian family. It is in the name of Jesus that we are able to acknowledge one another as our own brothers and sisters. It is.....
Current Updates | NE Brief | NECARF Rep
The lockdown caused by the pandemic has silver lining too. It has led people to think out of the box to be useful to the society. A youth from a small town called Nirujlui in Arunachal Pradesh has set up a ‘Street Library’ with just a rack loaded with boo.....
Current Updates | NE Brief | NECARF Rep
The Pandemic spares no one, but hit the poor the hardest. In St. Paul’s Parish, Pallel, under the Diocese of Imphal, there are 2252 members spread across 18 Villages belonging Lamkang, Moyon, Monsang, Chothe and Marings tribes. In all these villages, the .....
Opinion | Articles | Cedric Prakash
In India, the cries for justice, are becoming louder and longer! They come from different segments of society and particularly from those who continue to be exploited and excluded! These cries are heart-rending: anyone with an iota of conscience will hear.....
Opinion | Articles | John Dayal
Sometime later this year, if all goes well in India and the United States, India will send its second citizen into space. The first one, fighter pilot Rakesh Sharma, was on board a Soviet spacecraft in 1984. The next, also an air force pilot, will be on b.....
Current Updates | NE Brief | NECARF Rep
With COVID-19 bringing the entire World to grinding halt, India too closeted into homes from the last week of March, 2020, with the objective of staying away from the unseen human enemy. This made life very difficult for people from the North East residin.....
Opinion | Articles | John Dayal
No boat on a choppy Sea of Galilee would have been tossed as violently as the Church in India finds itself shaken today, trying to negotiate its way between competitive political space with Muslims and Hindus in distant Kerala, rampant persecution by non-.....
Opinion | Articles | Penny Rose Chinir
Cursory glance at the emergence of Northeast India Dioceses The Catholic dioceses of Northeast India have its roots from 1870 when Assam became part of the prefecture apostolic of Krishnagar. Fr Jacob Broy of the Foreign Missions of Milan was the first r.....
College | NECARF Rep | 16-Apr-2025
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College | NECARF Rep | 26-Mar-2024
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College | NECARF Rep | 10-Jul-2022
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College | NECARF Rep | 28-Feb-2021
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College | NECARF Rep | 05-Oct-2020
NISCORT opens Admissions for Course in Mass Media and Journalism.....
Editorial Pick | Editorial team | 24-Mar-2025
As India marks its 76th Republic Day, the Christian community faces what many describe as an unprecedented crisis of religious freedom. Recent appeals to both President Draupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi paint a troubling picture: over 720 in.....
Editorial Pick | Editorial team | 06-Jun-2024
On Thursday 4 April 2024, Pope Francis in a very incisive message to the participants in the First Colloquium between the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue and the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, held in the Vatican said, “We n.....
Editorial Pick | Editorial team | 16-Jan-2024
In an interview on an Italian TV program, Pope Francis laments the risk of escalation in war, says he has no plans to resign, announces Apostolic Journeys to Polynesia and to Argentina, and reflects on ‘Fiducia supplicans’, saying “the Lord blesses everyo.....
Editorial Pick | Editorial team | 08-Jan-2024
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.....
NE Brief | NECARF Rep | 15-Dec-2023
Archbishop Emeritus Thomas Menamparampil of Guwahati, whose name is synonymous with a crusader of ‘Peace and Reconciliation’, has been awarded the prestigious Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam World Peace Award 2023 on the occasion of the United Nations International H.....
Editorial Pick | Editorial team | 24-Nov-2023
Recent statements by prominent ecclesiastics raise important questions about certain assumptions that isolate synodality from theological, ecclesiological, canonical, and practical realities.(The Catholic World Report) This essay is occasioned by (1) the.....
Articles | Chhotebhai | 23-Apr-2025
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.....
Articles | M L Satyan | 22-Apr-2025
After a very long period, God selected a modern, pro-poor Francis Assisi in the form of a pope to reform the church that was rusting. Definitely, he too had been seriously reflecting on the contrast between the wealthy Vatican and the acute poverty outsid.....
Editorial | John S. Shilshi | 22-Apr-2025
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.....
Articles | James Pochury | 22-Apr-2025
The news broke quietly, like a whisper lost in the noise of our indifferent world: Pope Francis had passed away. For many, it was a passing headline. For those who understood what he represented, it was the end of an era. And for those of us shaped by rig.....
Articles | Cedric Prakash | 21-Apr-2025
In Pope Francis’ death the world is orphaned! In the death of Pope Francis, the world has lost one of the greatest personalities of modern times! We are saddened that he is no longer in our midst! He was truly a compassionate pastor with a warm, lovi.....
Articles | George Plathottam | 21-Apr-2025
The world mourns for Pope Francis at his ‘transitus’, to use a word that is both rich in meaning and familiar to the Church and the Franciscan spiritual tradition to describe one’s passing. His death, no doubt, is the end of a remarkable era. He leaves b.....