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THE PEW REPORT ON THE DECLINE OF CHRISTIANITY IN WESTERN EUROPE AND ITS LESSONS FOR THE CHURCH

P.T. KURIAKOSE A few weeks ago, the well-known and much respected US based Pew Research Centre published a report titled “Being Christian In Western Europe.” The report was based on a detailed survey of the present state of Christianity in fifteen West European countries. Although the findings are about the situation in Europe, I find […]

Future of Christianity in the West and the East

Fr. Mathew Chandrankunnel CMI Director, Ecumenical Christian Centre, Whitefield, Bangalore. For more than two decades I was organizing the Mayalalee Catholics as Parish Priest of the Syro-Malabar Church, as Director of Catholic Associations and now as Director of the Ecumenical Christian Centre in Bangalore has the wider reach of relating to most of the Churches […]

In Search of the “70 Million Missing Women”

Job Kozhamthadam, SJ Sex Ratio Imbalance and Its Alarming Consequences Just like the advent of life, the arrival of sex is an important milestone in the long path of evolutionary development. In the past, much less now, most religions and cultures had a dim and dismal view on sex, fencing it off with taboos and […]

TOO MANY MEN

In China and India, men outnumber women by 70 million. Both nations are belatedly trying to come to grips with the policies that created this male-heavy generation reported Washington Post on April 18, 2018. Nothing like this has happened in human history. A combination of cultural preferences, government decree and modern medical technology in the […]

The Impending Problems of the Sex-Ratio Imbalance

Rev. Dr J.Charles Davis Ph.D. Humboldt Research Fellow Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg The sex ratio in China and India is very tilted that millions of men will not get a wife in their lives. What are the repercussions that the society will have to face, it is eugenic issue that is affecting the world […]

Brahmanical Religion Empowered Christians to Weaken the Buddhists and the Jains

Rev. Dr Pius Malekandathil JNU Delhi There is a rethinking about the coming of St Thomas the Apostle to South India. What is your talk on St Thomas landing on Kerala’s Malabar coast? No doubt was raised until the 19th century about St Thomas coming to India. The debate was started by the protestant missionaries […]

Oscar Wilde’s long journey to Catholicism

Think of the “Second Spring” of English Catholicism and you will probably picture converts such as Cardinal Newman, Ronald Knox and GK Chesterton. Oscar Wilde – who converted on his deathbed in 1900 – is not usually associated with them. But The Happy Prince, a new film about the final years of Wilde’s life directed […]

1 in 5 baby boomers increasing faith as they reach old age

Are baby boomers, part of the first generation to lead the contemporary exodus from organized religion, returning to their religious roots? The ninth wave of a multigenerational study that began in 1971 finds a little more than one in five boomers became more religious in the transition from their 50s to their 60s. Why the […]

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