Churches

Truth and Faith

J Sai Deepak

The Places of Worship Act stands in the way of reclamation of religious sites of one community allegedly occupied by another. Its constitutional validity was waiting to be challenged

The Sisterhood of Resistance

Shahina KK

Kerala’s protesting nuns derive hope from an unsolved murder coming to trial after 27 years

As Sri Lankan investigators unpeel layers of Islamist radicalisation unleashed by one man, Mohammad Zahran Hashim, V Shoba follows the terror trail on an Island still reeling from the Easter Sunday attacks

The Bloodstained Cross

S Prasannarajan

The war on civilisation reaches Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Prayer After Horror

V Shoba

A report from ground zero

Rising from the Ashes

Sasanka Perera

We overcame once. We can do it again

A Sobering Moment

Frederica Jansz

Time for the Sri Lankan government to hold its majoritarian instincts in check

A Prayer for My Sister

KR Meera

She lives in a cloistered world of silence and submission. Endurance is her supreme prayer. She is out there on the street today, demanding justice for the one who has allegedly been raped by a bishop. Pitted against a patriarchal church and an indifferent state, a nun’s life is a lone battle. And it all returns to her body