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“The Christmas I still cherish”

The star was hung and candle lit - M.K. George, SJ [auth] This is an old memory. To be precise, five decades old. The setting was a village in central Kerala, where life was still…

#BelieveInUs!

“See, I can simply say Jesuits inspire me. But I don’t feel comfortable with it because what I am in love with is your ‘mission - the service of faith and promotion of justice.’ I…

Christmas in a world of war, death and…

As I write this, the media are full of the sad, shocking, sickening news of the Hamas-Israeli war in the very land Jesus was born. The Ukraine war is still going on, with no hope…

Jesuits organize Conference to protect the rights of…

A Jesuit organization took the initiative to organize a Conference to demand that the State government of Tamil Nadu, India extend to the minority schools special schemes it offers to the government schools. JCERT (Jesuit…

ISA organizes webinar on HFD

Emiliano Stornelli, Chairman of Religion and Security Council, Rome spoke at a webinar on ‘Human Fraternity Document (HFD): In the Light of Interreligious Relations in West Asia’ on 29 September 2023 organized by Islamic Studies Association, Delhi. …

Relishing theOrdinary

I have a vivid memory of the annual Christmas plays at my school, where I often found myself cast as one of the shepherds. On one occasion, I confided in my mother, expressing my desire…

“Tell me a Christmas story!”

Once upon a time, as all good stories begin, a young man, displaced from his village, found himself in a strange town with nowhere to stay. He was anxious, and rightly so. He was from…

Messengers and messages of peace

We are entering into the Christmas season again. The Christmas narrative tells us that the Lord was born in the darkness of a silent night, with animals for company. Was it only because his parents…

Christmas ironies

Can you think of a sadder tragic irony than this? He is hailed as ‘the Prince of Peace’. But the land, where he was born and brought up, where he wandered preaching God’s fatherly love,…