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By DCD Reporter
The National Dalit Christian Watch (NDCW) is deeply pained at the recent violence in Manipur that have caused violence and destroyed several churches and so many lives, making people suffer without food and shelter.
NDCW condemns the inhuman and illogical actions beyond law and order and the lack...
By Robancy A Helen
India is a democratic and secular state. It promotes equality and brotherhood. The Constitution of India treats its citizens equally, but Indian society still holds on to casteism, and Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims are discriminated against based on religion.
This is not something new. One understands the...
By Robancy A Helen
April 19 is indeed a day of social justice and a happy day for the Dalit Christians in Tamil Nadu and all those who fought for the justice of giving Scheduled Caste status to the Dalit Christians.
On April 18, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin...
Discrimination of Dalits in the Church is a plain and simple truth, but not accepted forthrightly by Church hierarchy
By Dr M Mary John
April 17, 2023:
The celebration of Easter 2023 with all the rhetoric, rituals, and mechanical yearly replication is just over and now it...
By Robancy A Helen
"Oorukku Oru Kudi" (A Family per Village) is the autobiography of a 38-year-old woman, who belongs to the Puthirai Vannan community, known as Dhobis (washermen and women) or Thurumbars in Tamil Nadu, south India.
Juliyes Vanathaiyan, a woman from the district of Villupuram in Tamil Nadu, shares her...
By Purushottam Nayak
New Delhi, February 21, 2023: About 15,000 people representing over 100 churches and faith-based organizations held a peaceful protest on Sunday, February 19, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.
The demonstrations in the national capital drew the attention of the government, the Supreme Court, and civil society groups...
By DCD Desk
Caste discrimination is a grave social sin. This statement was declared by the Indian Catholic bishops when they agreed six years ago, on December 13, 2016, while promulgating the Dalit Empowerment Policy.
Nothing much has changed even after disseminating the policy and releasing it in eight languages, including Spanish.
By Sr. Robancy A Helen
Tuticorin, 15 February 2023: Antony Edward Eugene, an assistant headmaster of St. Francis Xavier Higher Secondary School, has been appointed as the third lay secretary of the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) Commission of the Diocese of Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, south India.
The appointment...
By Robancy A Helen
Thanjavur, February 8, 2023: Poverty can never be an obstacle to success, as the four doctorate holders proved on February 3 at the Senate Hall of Tamil University, Thanjavur.
Professor Ku. Chinnappan, the head of the Department of Education and Management, released four books on transgender women...
By DCD Reporter
January 30, 2023, Chennai: Tamil Nadu Bishops’ Council (NDBC) organized a consultation to disseminate and implement the Dalit Empowerment Policy on January 30 at Dyana Ashram in Chennai.
"The Policy of Dalit Empowerment in the Catholic Church in India: An Ethical Imperative to Build Inclusive Communities" was released...
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