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Rights Into Reality – OpEd

Women’s and girls’ rights remain incomplete without something fundamental: equal access. When we open doors to education, economic resources,...

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Dr. Fr. John Singarayar

Joseph Shows Faith Resists Digital Control – OpEd

The carpenter from Nazareth seems an odd patron for the digital age. Saint Joseph wielded a hammer and saw, not

24.02.2026 3

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When Love Becomes Way Of Life: How Religious Community Quietly Transforms Lives In Rural India – OpEd

There is an old African proverb that says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want

23.02.2026 0

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India’s Missing Women Demand A Catholic Church Response – OpEd

(UCA News) — When more than 1.3 million women vanish over three years without sparking sustained national outrage, something fundamental

20.02.2026 0

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Lent Calls Us To Love Differently – OpEd

There is something quietly unsettling about the way many of us observe Lent. We follow the calendar, choose our sacrifice,

18.02.2026 3

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Fasting From What’s Eating Our Consecration – OpEd

I am stuck on why we have made fasting so narrow. We talk about giving up food for a few

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Campus Deaths Reveal Church’s Unfinished Work In India – OpEd

(UCA News) — When India’s University Grants Commission (UGC) announced its equity regulations for higher education early this year, the

13.02.2026 10

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India’s Parliament Has Forgotten How To Think – OpEd

The Indian Parliament met this February with all the usual ceremony—the grand halls, the formal procedures, and the weight of

07.02.2026 1

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Viral Justice Killed An Innocent Indian Man – OpEd

(UCA News) — On a crowded bus last month in the Indian state of Kerala, a woman pulled out her

06.02.2026 3

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They Died Serving The Marginalized, Will We? – OpEd

(UCA News) — In 1693, a Portuguese Jesuit named John de Britto was beheaded in southern India. The Tamils called

04.02.2026 5

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Governors Are Betraying India’s Federal Promise – OpEd

Something fundamental is breaking in the way India governs itself. Across multiple states in recent weeks, governors have walked out

02.02.2026 5

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When Faith Becomes A Political Shield In India – OpEd

(UCA News) — With 2026 having just begun, India faces a moment of reckoning. Citizens are demanding answers to urgent

31.01.2026 6

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Saint Arnold Would Tweet The Gospel Today – OpEd

(UCA News) — In the shadow of Bismarck’s Kulturkampf, when anti-Catholic laws drove priests underground across nineteenth-century Germany, one man

30.01.2026 1

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Silence Has Become Its Own Answer – OpEd

The word “shameless” has been thrown around so often in Indian political discourse that it risks losing its bite. But

25.01.2026 9

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Truth Is India’s Only Path Forward Now – OpEd

(UCA News) — India teeters on the edge of something dangerous. Three forces are quietly dismantling the nation’s democratic soul:

23.01.2026 6

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Christian Unity Calls India To Prayer – OpEd

(UCA News) — Every January, as winter settles across northern India, Christians from countless traditions pause to pray together for

23.01.2026 10

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Pride Shapes The World We Build – OpEd

Pride runs deeper than we often admit. It colours the way we see ourselves, shapes the circles we move in,

18.01.2026 9

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Can AI Truly Champion Social Justice? – OpEd

(UCA News) — Artificial intelligence is transforming our world at dizzying speed, carrying both extraordinary promise and serious peril for

16.01.2026 6

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India’s Christians Deserve Safety, Not Empty Words – OpEd

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks of his bond with India’s Christian community or embraces the Pope for cameras in

05.01.2026 5

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The Lantern In The Village Square – OpEd

(UCA News) — When I celebrated my first Christmas in a remote Maratha tribal village, I learnt that light does

26.12.2025 6

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Christ’s Message Transforms Our Digital Age – OpEd

The Christmas season brings a message of hope and unity, rooted in the mystery of the Incarnation, God becoming human

26.12.2025 6

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Two Competitors Don’t Mean Real Competition – OpEd

We mistake convenience for choice. Our phones overflow with apps promising freedom—order anything, go anywhere, pay anyone, buy everything. Tap,

07.12.2025 9

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Misinformation Destroys India’s Ability To Heal Itself – OpEd

India faces three intertwined dangers that threaten its democratic future: blind loyalty, corruption, and misinformation. Each corrodes the nation...

07.12.2025 6

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When Faith Becomes Our Deepest Source Of Strength – OpEd

There exists a peculiar courage that emerges not from human accomplishment or worldly recognition, but from something far more profound—a

05.12.2025 7

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Democracy Weakens When One Voice Dominates – OpEd

(UCA News) — In a country as diverse as India, elections should be conversations about hope, identity, and the future.

04.12.2025 4

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India’s Election Workers Are Dying And Nobody Cares – OpEd

Over thirty government employees have taken their own lives this year while updating India’s electoral rolls, and the Election Commission

03.12.2025 8

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Advent’s Sacred Journey – OpEd

As winter descends and the days grow shorter, the Christian season of Advent beckons us into a sacred journey of

29.11.2025 5

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Marigirathammal: The Grandmother Who Taught Me To Pray With My Hands – OpEd

A Personal Tribute The Tamil word for grandmother—Ammachi —sounds like a lullaby when you say it slowly. But Marigirathammal was

23.11.2025 4

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Will You Go?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ – OpEd

Sunita aunty still remembers the afternoon that changed everything. She was visiting her neighbors in the government hospital when she

22.11.2025 4

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Love Becomes Real When It Costs Us Something – OpEd

Pope Leo XIV’s first major document landed in October with surprisingly sharp language. “Dilexi Te,” a 200-page apostolic exhortation on

21.11.2025 4

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Faith And Culture Heal India’s Wounded Land – OpEd

Across India’s vast tapestry of languages and landscapes, something remarkable is happening. Faith and culture are weaving together communities once

18.11.2025 5

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Saint Newman’s Light Guides Us Through Modern Doubt – OpEd

It was a crisp evening last July when Pope Leo XIV stepped onto the balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square, his

07.11.2025 4

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The Candle That Refuses To Go Out – OpEd

My grandmother kept a small wooden box on her dresser, the kind with a brass latch that clicked when you

03.11.2025 6

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Kerala’s Zero-Poverty Milestone – OpEd

When Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan stands before cameras on November 1, 2025, to announce that his state has become

02.11.2025 5

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Saints Walk Among Us Today – OpEd

(UCA News) — Last year, I watched Father Anthonyswamy stack boxes of canned goods in the pouring rain. His small

02.11.2025 4

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Let Us Learn To Practice Presence – OpEd

I never expected to find my deepest spiritual insights while washing dishes or tending to a small window garden. For

30.10.2025 6

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Saints Simon And Jude: Called, Beloved, Kept Safe – OpEd

I once met an elderly woman at a parish office hour who told me she felt invisible. “I have been

28.10.2025 5

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Dilexit Te And The Billionaire Raj – OpEd

Pope Leo’s first encyclical Dilexit Te (He loved you) is a profound call for the Church to embody Christ’s love

27.10.2025 4

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When The Healer Stopped To See – OpEd

I was twelve when I saw my grandmother kneel beside a homeless woman outside our village church. Most people had

27.10.2025 3

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Christ Shines Brightest During India’s Festival Of Lights – OpEd

(UCA News) — Every autumn, when millions of clay lamps flicker across India’s rooftops and courtyards, a beautiful paradox unfolds

17.10.2025 5

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When Democracy Becomes A Death Sentence – OpEd

At least forty-one people died at a political rally in Karur, Tamil Nadu, on 27 September. Seventeen were women. Ten

17.10.2025 4

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The Church Must Become India’s Laboratory Of Creative Hope – OpEd

(UCA News) — On Mission Sunday, Oct. 19, India will bleed and breathe simultaneously. Manipur’s families will huddle in makeshift

16.10.2025 5

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Families Are Quietly Falling Apart – OpEd

There is something profoundly unsettling about watching a family sit together at dinner, each face bathed in the cold blue

13.10.2025 6

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A Pilgrimage In Your Pocket – OpEd

 a small church not long ago, I watched an elderly woman lean close to her granddaughter and whisper, “When life

12.10.2025 7

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Mustard Seed Faith: Small, Real, And Enough – OpEd

Last Tuesday morning, as I stood in my kitchen staring at my coffee maker, I realized something profound about faith.

06.10.2025 7

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Vocation To Religious Brotherhood – OpEd

Last November, Brother Michael stood at the edge of a prison yard in Mumbai, watching men in jail suits file

01.10.2025 3

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When Politics Turns Deadly In Tamil Nadu – OpEd

At least 40 people, including 17 women and 10 children, died and more than 80 were wounded on Septemebr at

29.09.2025 4

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St Devasahayam: India’s Laity Find Their Champion Saint – OpEd

Last Tuesday morning at Saint Francis Xavier’s Church in Chennai, Father Jesu made a special announcement during Mass. “We have

25.09.2025 5

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Helping A Tribe In A Remote Indian Corner Combat Climate Change – OpEd

(UCA News) — The morning mist still clung to the hills when Nanita Jadhav heard the tempo truck approaching her

24.09.2025 6

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Mary At The Cross And Earth At The Crossroads – OpEd

Last spring, I watched my neighbor Maria kneel in her garden, cradling a handful of seeds that would never grow.

21.09.2025 4

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