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Responses on developments that impact on Indian secular and democratic values, freedom of faith, and Dalits -- from Dr. John Dayal, Member, National Integration Council, Government of India, Immediate Past President All India Catholic Union, founded 1919, and Secy gen, All India Christian Council
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KILL BILL
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KILL BILL
- Or how the BJP and its friends across party lines tried to shoot down the draft Communal Violence Bill in the NIC meeting
JOHN DAYAL
I must begin with a Disclaimer: I was a member of the Working Group of the Mrs Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council which drafted the Prevention... more »
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Letter to Prime Minister on errors in Caste Census
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Dr. John Dayal
Member, National Integration Council
Government of India
Member, National Monitoring Committee for Minority Education,
Government of India
Secretary General, All India Christian Council
Imm. Past National President, All India Catholic Union
505 Link Apartments, 18 IP Extn. Delhi 1100092 INDIA... more »
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A reminder to the Sage of Bengaluru
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A reminder to the Sage of Bengaluru
You went to a Catholic college but most Indians must be Naxals, dear
Sri Sri, because they went to government schools?
JOHN DAYAL
Mukund Murari Singh of Haridwar and Ravi Shankar Ratnam of Bengaluru
do not know each other, but Singh does not like what Ratnam says. In... more »
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MONITORING FREEDOM OF FAITH
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Human rights activists across the world will be happy at the news that
Italy has set up a Commission for Monitoring Religious Freedom in all
countries. This is the second such commission in the world after the
troubled United States Commission for International Religious Freedom
which, in recent years, has been beset by funding problems despite a... more »
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CHURCH AND THE GOVERNMENT'S FORKED TONGUE
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‘Pick our hot chestnuts from the fire, teach our children, and heal
our sick, but no Evangelisation please,’ says the government. And, of
course, nothing doing on Dalit Christians’ rights
JOHN DAYAL
The dapper Union minister, Jairam Ramesh, is a very nice person, a
gentleman. He deserves a reply. And since the princes of the Church... more »
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Concern at Srinagar Sharia court ruling against Pastors
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All India Christian Council concern at Srinagar Sharia court
statement against Christian pastors
New Delhi, 13 January 2012
The All India Christian Council is deeply disturbed at the Srinagar
based Sharia Court issuing a statement against Christian pastors Jim
Borst and C M Khanna Srinagar, Jan 11: Supreme Court of Islamic Sharia... more »
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National advocacy and prayer campaign for Communal Violence Prevention Bill
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JOHN DAYAL Mr Hazare and many of the middle class who have joined him in his national camoaign against corruption do not seem to take the threat of communalism as seriously. No national campaign has yet been launched against the sort of hate violence that leaves hundreds dead every year in various parts of the country, and periodically peaks in the... more »
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