Cover Stories

The Illusion of Protection

Handshakes at Delhi banquets do not stop the violent fists in the bylanes. While leaders pose for festive photographs, people are attacked, churches and homes are vandalised, burials are disrupted, an

Fr. Gaurav Nair Fr. Gaurav Nair
29 Dec 2025

2025 Will Haunt the Indian Christian Community

In 2025, hate hardened into policy. Anti-conversion laws spread, rhetoric turned murderous, and courts faltered. For India's tiny Christian minority, the year marked not aberration but consolidation—w

John Dayal John Dayal
29 Dec 2025

Articles

In an era when faith is often kept carefully outside the public square, VD Satheesan, Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Legislative Assembly, speaks of the Bible with an ease that is neither perf

Dr Suresh Mathew Dr Suresh Mathew
29 Dec 2025

For seventy years, Christmas felt benign. This year, people were wishing each other a "safe" Christmas. That single adjective reveals India's moral crisis. Mobs rule, and symbolism has replaced govern

A. J. Philip A. J. Philip
29 Dec 2025

Festivals once nurtured harmony; today, they are weaponised. Hate, boycotts, and violence have replaced pluralism, enabled by silence from power and an ideology hostile to India's constitutional promi

Jacob Peenikaparambil Jacob Peenikaparambil
29 Dec 2025

As the new year dawns, India pauses to introspect—except its institutions. Data reveals a justice system dulled by delay, selective mercy, and unequal enforcement, where survivors wait, the powerful w

Jaswant Kaur Jaswant Kaur
29 Dec 2025

On December 15, 2025, in Kanker district, Chhattisgarh, a province in the central part of India, the father of Rajman Salam, an elected sarpanch (village headman), was buried according to Christian ri

United Christian Forum United Christian Forum
29 Dec 2025

Renaming the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) into the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Employment and Livelihood Mission (Rural) Bill, dubbed "G RAM G" and pushed through P

Oliver D'Souza Oliver D'Souza
29 Dec 2025

In the land of Tagore, Vivekananda, and Gandhi—who preached universal faith and freedom—religion is now weaponised. Constitutional guarantees are undermined by vigilantes, anti-conversion laws, and si

John S. Shilshi John S. Shilshi
29 Dec 2025

In the thundering storm of ignorance and fear, Rose a voice, fierce and clear-Periyar, the seer. A flame against the darkness, a sword against the lie, He challenged the shadows that veiled the sky

Dr Suryaraju Mattimalla Dr Suryaraju Mattimalla
29 Dec 2025

Christmas celebrations in Arunachal grew into vibrant expressions of faith and culture. Today, they are celebrated widely across the state, but their roots trace back to that fragile, defiant begin

CM Paul CM Paul
29 Dec 2025

The Lord Jesus has promised that the stones will cry out. What remains to be decided—by me, by my Order, by the Church in India—is whether we will raise our voices with them, or whether our silence wi

Fr. Anil Prakash D'Souza, OP Fr. Anil Prakash D'Souza, OP
29 Dec 2025

Let the Spirit of victory take its place. Not the victory of noise, but the victory of peace. And let two simple words reign again, fear not.

Robert Clements Robert Clements
29 Dec 2025