If we want to make peace with others, we first need to be at peace with ourselves. By John Dear A few years before his death in 1999, the great Latin American advocate for the poor, Brazil’s Archbishop Dom Helder Camara was speaking at a crowded church in Berkeley, California. He was asked, ” After…
If we want to live in peace with all humanity, we have to see with the eyes of peace. Then, we will begin to envision what Martin Luther King, Jr. called “the beloved community.” By John Dear Over the last 20 years, while meeting suffering people across the world, I have made a great discovery.…
The Origins of Sacred Music Radio Vakil believes that the most important guidance he received when setting up the radio station was simply listening to that voice within which guides us all when we allow our minds to become quiet. In 1979, Vakil Michael Kenton participated in a meditation retreat, located in the beautiful French…
Amartya Sen Muslim areas served with poor civic amenities, 52% do not go beyond primary education. By A Staff Writer Kolkata: The latest Report on living conditions of Muslims in West Bengal portrays a dismal picture of the community. The Report released on February 14 by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, was compiled by Social Network…
Signs of the Creator God are scattered all across the universe, and within our own selves, too, and they convincingly disprove the atheist evolutionists’ claims. By A Staff Writer Among the most fundamental questions we could ask ourselves”and probably every one of us has reflected, however fleetingly, on them at some point or the other…
By A Staff Writer Quill Foundation is an autonomous institution engaged in research on access to rights and social justice for members of communities like the Dalits, tribals, Muslims, women, sexual minorities and other underprivileged communities. The Foundation was set up in 2015 by a group of leading legal luminaries and human rights activists…
That Japanese are hardworking is well known. Few can be persuaded to talk. Even in Metro trains, they can be found poring over newspapers, kindles or a variety of browsing devices. Attending cell phone calls in trains is considered among bad manners. Silence pervades all the public spaces. By Maqbool Ahmed Siraj It was a…
Teachers have a negative mindset against the deprived sections and discourage children. Kids of Valmiki community have stopped going to school as they were asked to be manual scavengers. Children of scheduled caste/scheduled tribes and Muslim communities in Rajasthan are the worst affected in cases of school dropouts, a report of a joint survey by…
Jamiatul Ulema Hind has formed several panels of advocates in different cities to pursue the cases of the innocent youth held under false charges of terrorism by the police. Lucknow: Yet again, the national media blacked out the news about a Lucknow court acquitting eight Muslim youngsters, arrested under false charges of terrorism and were…
Prof. Patrick J. Ryan writes that Muslims have taught him a lesson over and over again whenever he hears them exclaim the first words of the call to worship: Allahu akbar! By Victor Edwin SJ Prof. Patrick J. Ryan, a Jesuit priest and Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University (New York), lived and…
