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Abandon Our Exclusive Ways and Integrate Ourselves

Varghese Alengaden Fr Varghese Alengaden is the Founder and National Co-ordinator of the Universal Solidarity Movement of Value Education for Peace since 1993, he is an office bearer in a number of social organizations. He is the President of National Peace Movement to promote peace and harmony in the country. At present he is the […]

How Argentina Is Becoming More Evangelical— But Less Religious

Josue Fernandez Last month, Argentina became the first Latin America country to legalize abortion. The Senate approved the bill two years after it rejected a similar effort two years ago. The bill allows women to legally end pregnancies for any reason up to 14 weeks. After that, it makes exceptions for rape and the health […]

Hungary Amends Constitution with Traditional Definition of Family

Conservative Christians and human rights groups are clashing over a new law in Hungary that effectively bans adoption for same-sex couples and legally defines a family according to traditional Christian views of marriage, family, and gender, where “the mother is a woman, the father is a man.” The amendment, passed by Hungary’s ruling right-wing coalition […]

I Grew Up a Fervent Evangelist for Islam. Now I’m Living Out the Book of Acts

I grew up in a Muslim family on the coast of Kenya. My father served as an Imam, and I was one of the muezzins (Muslims who call others to pray five times a day) at a local mosque. The only school I ever attended, existed to educate young men in the ways of Islam […]

Homo-Sexuals and Lesbians

We Need Further Study and Discussion Abiding By the Present Teaching Rev. Dr Shaji George Kochuthara CMI Dharmaram College, Bangalore 1) An estimated 3.5% of adults in the United States identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual and an estimated 0.3% of adults are transgender. This implies that there are approximately 9 million LGBT Americans, a figure roughly equivalent […]

The Revelation of Word in the Flesh

PAUL THELAKAT Jean-Luc Marion, a Catholic Professor of the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in the Department of Philosophy, amazed me with this statement: “Orgasm, the only miracle that the poorest human condition can definitely experience – for it requires neither talent, nor apprenticeship, but simply a bit of naturalness – nevertheless leaves nothing to see, […]

Incarnation as Elevation of the Human

Dr Martin Francis Sankoorikal The Christian dictum of human flourishing formulated by St Irenaeus, “Man fully alive is the glory of God” seems to be the apt Christmas message for our turbulent times. “I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.” (John 10:10). This emancipative dimension of incarnation […]

Nativity: the Axis of History

Fr Dr Sooraj George Pittappillil soorajgeorge@hotmail.com Until my university years I had been quite at home with the Dionysian division of history as taught in schools and endorsed by publication giants. (Accordingly, history was divided into two periods, namely, BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini). Indeed, vast majority of populace across our planet do […]

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