FEMALE FETICIDE AND INFANTICIDE

In today's society "the modern Herod is anyone who practices female feticide and infanticide, who limits religious freedom and abuses human rights" said Oswald Gracias, president of the Indian Bishops' Conference and archbishop of Mumbai, on the Feast of Holy Innocents.news

There is a practice of dowry in India. Actually the marriage in India is happening like a bargain in the market. The parents of the bride has to pay dowry to the bridegroom in order to get marry their daughter. If the dowry is not given as it was agreed, the bride will be sent to her parent’s house even after the child bearing. Actually there is a saying in India, even a king will become a beggar if he has five female children. There are millions of cases in the court regarding murders, suicide, divorce connected with the dowry problem in India. To avoid these things people tend to kill the female baby after its birth or in the womb of the mother. It has become common in some parts of India. A female child is considered as a curse to a family because the family has to pay a lot for the marriage of the girl.

We must go to the root of the problem to solve the problem. To save the children from female feticide and infanticide it is necessary that the dowry system must be eradicated. Even if there is law against the dowry system the practice of this kind is common among the people. People must be enlightened not to give dowry for the marriage. If the dowry system is eradicated then there will be a difference regarding the sex. As a result there will not be female feticide and infanticide.

And it is important that those who do female feticide and infanticide must be arrested and should be punished.

THE DEFAMATION OF RELIGION

A United Nations forum on Thursday passed a resolution condemning "defamation of religion" as a human rights violation. This bill was passed in a United Nations forum in which the representatives of 193 countries were present.news

This world belongs to all the beings in the world. So we have the right to live anywhere and practice any religion. The restriction to embrace a particular in a particular region cannot be accepted. Many Muslim countries including Pakistan have passed bill to punish the Christians in the name of blasphemy of their religion. Innocent people were being persecuted, jailed and killed in some of the Muslim countries. In the name of religions, the human beings are humiliated and ill treated. It is not a stone age to agree and follow the state religion. We are living in a computer era and everywhere the human right is being implemented.

As we all have right to speak, write and to profess it is important that all human beings must have the right to practice a religion. Religions are meant for the good of the human society. If any nation has a law to restrict any human being to embrace a religion is violating the human rights. The defamation of religions is a serious affront to human dignity leading to a restriction on the freedom of their adherents and incitement to religious violence. The world as global village must be aware of the restrictions to embrace a religion and should protect the sentiments and beliefs of the human beings. There is superior or inferior religion but every religion is good and they lead the human beings to a good state of life. Passing a bill for condemning the defamation of religion is a warning to the Muslim nations who persecute the Christians and other religious minorities in the world.

save the earth

The Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council Thursday announced that Catholics should include sins against the environment when they visit the confessional.more

One of the reasons for the natural calamities like Tsunami and earthquake is all kinds of pollutions. If we eat something that is not good to the stomach we feel pain and we are not at ease. Our stomach become only when it ejects that which is creating problem. In the same way the earth ejects that which is not good to it. The result of this is earth quake or Tsunami.

We must reduce the use of plastics. We must find out the alternative for plastics and promote it among the plastic users. There are many paper products available in the market instead of plastics. But the danger of plastic is not felt as well as the good of paper product is also not felt among the people. All have the responsibility to save the earth and give a better world to the younger and future generation. The church has also the responsibility to instruct people to save the nature. 

Not only are the human beings creatures by God but also the nature. They are also living being. God created them for the well being of the human society. And he gave us the right to look after and use them for the sustenance of the human society. If we live against the commandment of God then it is sin. If we misuse the nature then we become sinners. The church must create sinful feeling for destroying the nature. People must be made to understand the gravity of destroying the earth by our small doings like putting the wastes in common place and use of plastics…

It is right thing that the Kerala Catholic Church has undertaken to include sins against environment.

A New Catholic TV Launch in North India

Prarthana Bhawan, a new catholic TV channel has been launched in Jhalandar in North India.click for full news Many people in North India are not educated. They do not have proper schools for the education. The Hindu fanatists become politicians and sow the hindu fanaticisam in their young age through the lessons. They are ruined and they are misled by the fanatists politicians. The fanatists know that the education will make the people aware and will be enkindled to act against them. So they make people to watch television. . The Christian missionaries are trying to educate them, but failed at times because of this television. The few school going children are also attracted by the television and they avoid going to school. They spend their day in front of the television. Elderly people every day they watch television at home. They do not go for work and be idle at home watching television. The films are ruining them. They became a slave to the television. 

India is a vast country and it is mostly dominated by Hinduism. The majority of the country is Hindus. The ordinary people do not know about the Hinduism and Hindu gods they are simple people. Many innocent people are being by the Hindu fanatists. If people become educated and intelligent and they become capable of deciding what is good and bad. The knowledge of them makes them realize their slavery to the landlords and Gundas. They use television as their instrument to immerse the people in the virtual world. So that they may not fight against them.

Someone must take the responsibility to tell them to use the television for the useful purpose. So it is best medium for the turning the people around. It is a means for evangelization. Now the television is itself an instrument to educate and tell them what is right and what is wrong it is a good initiative from the part of the Indian Catholic Church.

San Jose Articles.

The scientists, doctors and humanists have made an article against abortion. Many have signed from different countries against the abortion. Two weeks ago, 39 have signed in Rome in San Jose articles. 

In some countries already there is law for abortion. Who has given them the right to abortion? How countries can make a law to kill another human being? We must remember that almost all the countries have eliminated the capital punishment. If we are able to eliminate the capital punishment then we should not approve the abortion, because a life is killed in abortion. After all, why there is law? It is for the common good. If the law is against the human being, let us destroy the law. If abortion is approved my many countries, it cannot be the absolute decision and it is not right. It need not be a model. We need someone to raise a voice against the abortion. Now a San Jose article has raised the voice against the abortion. And it receives good response from all over the world.

The human society in general is against the abortion and thinks that it is a murder. But when it comes to the individual it becomes just an act. It is not a murder. If we are wounded by someone else, we file a case to get justice. If it happens to us we file a case as attempt to murder. When we think of abortion we do the same thing to embryo. Embryo cannot speak and fight with us not to kill it. If we do abortion we are killing a disabled being. Then it becomes more than a sin.

San Jose articles is one of the prophetic article the human society of the third millennium is very much in need.