Fr. Stan Swamy wrote a booklet titled Church and Social Justice in 1980, published by Centre for Social Action, Bangalore. Many of his contemporaries must have read it. The introduction of the book begins as…
I want to begin with lines about Father Stan Swamy which I read in the journal Vasudha sent to me by my comrade Vineet from Indore. Written by Megha, these lines defy translation. [auth] Aaj…
JHEASA Meeting, 26-29 November, 2021, XIM University, Bhubaneswar [auth] For most, the long journey to Bhubaneswar for a JHEASA Meeting on matters, naturally, of Higher Education, meant that there would be a heady roam through…
The annual meeting of the VPND was held in at XLRI, Jamshedpur from November 25-28, 2021. The meeting began with Fr. Arjen Tete, the Conference Formation Delegate, welcoming the participants. Fr. Ivan D’Souza (BOM), then,…
LIBA’s efforts of re-strategizing its future, gained further strength in the formal inauguration of the state-of-the-art LIBA building by the Honourable Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu - Thiru M.K. Stalin on October 15th, 2021, in…
South Sudan is a precarious place to live. For Deborah and her seven children, it has become a dangerous one because of climate change. To feed her family, she grows groundnuts, kale and pumpkins. While…
Indian Social Institute, Bangalore, in collaboration with Caritas India, sponsored by Caritas Germany, has come out with a handbook on Community Mobilisation, titled “Development Anchored in Community Intelligence”. The handbook - published in English and…
The Consortium of minority schools in Tamil Nadu was inaugurated on 28th November in Loyola College, Chennai. About 170 leaders, consisting of diocesan education managers of the CSI dioceses, superintendents of schools of the RC…
Father Placidius Kujur was a great pioneer missionary always ready to go and start new missions with new people and in new places. He was a spiritual and holy man who never missed Holy Mass…
People were celebrating the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the local hero, on 31st July 1931, in the small village in Guipuzcoa, Spain, called Aretxabaleta. From a house top, an elderly lady shouted, “Two…