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View Article  Sri Lanka: Who will stop the war?

                                    SRI LANKA: Who will stop the WAR?

                                                        by: Chandi Sinnathurai

ANY long time serious observer of war-politics in Sri Lanka will agree that the war machinery is bringing the country to its knees when it comes to its economy and development.  It doesn’t help at all, in any shape or form, when the saffron-robed politico Buddhist ...   more »

View Article  TO A Crucified People: Fr. SJ Emmanuel

                  An Easter Message to a Crucified People

On Easter Sunday Christians all over the world celebrate the Rising of Jesus from death. It was the culmination of God becoming man, bringing the good news of liberation of man from his sins and slaveries, paying the price for redemption through his suffering humiliation, false accusations, unjust judgments, stripping and torture ...   more »

View Article  CHRIST: A REFLECTION

Matthew 21: 1 -11 Palm Sunday

 

When Jesus has entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, every one asked Who is this?  In the life and witness and ministry of our Lord this question was asked more than once by numerous people including by his disciples.  Who is this Man?  And this question is asked, ...   more »

View Article  I WANT TO SEE

                                                 I WANT TO SEE

 

                                               Text:Luke 18: 35 – 43

A certain blind man was sitting by the road, begging.  In the ancient world, and even now in certain poorer countries, if a person is visually impaired or have any other disability which hinders him to get a regular employment, then that person has no option ...   more »

View Article  FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Gilad Atzmon

Freedom of Speech: The Right to Equate Gaza with Auschwitz

(A talk given on the First of March 2008 at Invitation to Learn’s weekend retreat)

They (the Palestinians) will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves.

– Matan Vilnai, Israeli Deputy Defence Minister, 29 ...   more »

View Article  BATICALOA "ELECTIONS": 'FRANKENSTEIN' FRANCHISE

'Frankenstein' franchise in Batticaloa - TNA MP

[TamilNet, Friday, 07 March 2008, 01:52 GMT]
"Ceylon was the first country in Asia to receive universal adult enfranchisement as early as in 1931. Even though many at that time eulogized it, from the very beginning, it was doomed as it was implemented in a country where the voting was communal. The Tamils ...   more »
View Article  SO ITS TIME TO SING...

SO ITS TIME TO SING...

WE are being killed

Daily we are slaughtered like sheep

Blood flows into the soil

and soaks every budding plant.

One day these plants will grow and become large trees.

Little children will play under the Banyan tree

Mango orchards will give shade

and their mothers will tell them heroic stories of their forebearers.

Now they are ...   more »

View Article  SEEING

(Text: St. John 9: 1 – 41 )   

 

                                           SEEING

 

We speak of God being an all- seeing God.  God who sees our heart rather than our outward appearance.  The OT prophets were often called as seers – the ones who saw far ahead; these Godly men were able to see through – see through ...   more »