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Catholic Church in India should end ‘silence’ over kidnapped Dalit bishop, say critics – Ruth Gledhill

Discrimination based on caste system is illegal in India but it has proved almost impossible to eradicate [within the Church].  A Capuchin Franciscan priest, Father Nithiya Sagayam, told Crux that the Church should speak out more on the caste system: “The silence of the official Church is criminal.” – Ruth Gledhill The Catholic Church hierarchy in […]

Ban cow slaughter – Hari Bansh Jha

Research shows that beef is most hazardous to human health. In addition, the cattle meat industry is a major threat to the environment. So the sooner cattle slaughter is stopped, the better. – Prof Hari Bansh Jha For Hindus all over the world, the cow symbolizes motherhood, wealth, strength, abundance, selflessness and all earthly pleasures. […]

We are built to be vegetarian – B. M. Hegde

Our legs, our stomach, our small intestine length, our molar teeth, our jaw with its temparo-mandibuar joint not being in line with the lower jaw like meat-eating animals, and our mouth and jaw not favouring eating into animal meat—all tell us that we are built to be vegetarian. – Prof Dr B. M. Hegde  Our so-called […]

12 – Tamil Nadu in the grip of Jihad – Thamizhchelvan

Similar to the documentation of 12 murders carried out by Islamic terrorists in Tamil Nadu, Hindu Munnani has also documented a few major assaults committed by jihadists. All these assaults are brutal in nature and intended to liquidate the victims. The documentary titled Jihadi Assaults In Tamil Nadu runs for about 40 minutes detailing a few […]

The ‘miracle’ that makes a saint out of Mother Teresa – Jaideep Mazumdar

This woman drives to the hospital and places the Mother Teresa medallion under her husband’s pillow. And then, even as her husband is being readied for surgery, she drives back to her church to pray! … Did she drive back an hour to be able to pray with the Missionaries of Charity nuns so that […]

Egypt never enslaved the Israelites, Moses never freed them – Candida Moss

The Israelites were never subject to national enslavement in Egypt; but, as this new discovery reminds us, the land of Canaan was under the foot of Pharaonic authority. The long shadows of that experience might help explain why—in the absence of a historical Exodus—the biblical authors made the Egyptians the villains of their national epic. – […]

Supreme Court’s ill-timed, ill-considered outburst against “ill-trained” J&K police – Radha Rajan

If it please Your Lordships—and even if it doesn’t—I am exercising my fundamental right to freedom of expression and right to dissent. I am expressing my dissent against the opinions expressed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court on August 12, 2016, against the country’s police force and by implication our army, in J&K and I am […]

Interview given to a student of religious studies – Koenraad Elst

This is an interview given to a student of Religious Studies collecting material for her dissertation – Dr Koenraad Elst Q : You have written that a Hindu simply is an Indian pagan. This raises the question: What is a pagan, exactly? Or what is paganism? A : Strictly a “rustic”, “peasant” or “village bumpkin”, […]

Kashmir: Nehru’s blunder can be rectified only by history – Amar Bhushan

It is time J&K was treated like any other state in India without grandstanding on Article 370. It needs a clean and effective administration, a participatory governance, a police that firmly handles protesters, and security force that guards borders and takes on terrorists aggressively. – Amar Bhushan Kashmir once again exposes our inability to come to […]

Remembering the security forces that safeguard our independence – Media

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