Aug 30 – World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation
P. A. Chacko SJ We human beings, being part and parcel of God’s crated realities, have an important role. With our intelligence, our reflective capacity, our powers of discernment and…
22 August International Day for Victims of Violence Based on Religion and Other Beliefs
P. A. Chacko SJ The upsurge of hatred towards and violence against members especially of minority religious communities, all over the world, has been frightening. It has been reported that…
22 August International Day for Victims of Violence Based on Religion and Other Beliefs
The upsurge of hatred towards and violence against members especially of minority religious communities, all over the world, has been frightening. It has been reported that one third of the…
Aug 21 Senior Citizens Day
Senior citizens: Men and women who have a covered a long race in life and have reached the twilight years. Time to relax! Time to recall the bitter-sweet events and…
Aug 20 Sadbhavana Divas
In India we celebrate this day as Good Fellowship/Fellow Feelings Day. A day to remind ourselves that we are all human fellows irrespective of caste, colour, creed, profession or birthplace!…
India at 73
P. A. Chacko SJ Our Indian nation, having crossed 73 years as a free entity is vibrant as far as the Independence Day official celebrations are concerned. The ramparts of…
Aug. 12 International Youth Day
The theme of 2020: Youth Engagement for Global Action The world has witnessed beautiful scenes of youth power transforming into noble deeds. During recent periods of calamitous situations like Covid…
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY – August 09
August 9 is dedicated to honour Indigenous People of the world over. The indigenous are the earliest settlers in the areas they have been occupying for centuries. In India when…
Nagasaki Bombing – Aug.09, 1945
P. A. Chacko SJ U S president Harry S. Truman repeated his madness, just two days later, by ordering a second bombing of Japan in 1945 during the World War…
Hiroshima Day Aug. 06
P. A. Chacko SJ Aug.06, 1945 – Hiroshima Bombing World War II Greed for political power and world supremacy America detonated two nuclear weapons of mass destruction on Japanese city…