Reflections on 20 centuries of the crucified Jesus Christ

MORE than one third of humanity commemorates the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ in a world today that is caught up in lacerating tensions, hatreds, with wars and rumours of wars. A world that is in the throttling grip of an unjust, biased, global economic and social system - a system that relies on the rapacity of enterprise, unbridled competition among unequals with unchecked asymmetries against the poor nations, the poor and the underprivileged.

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How Ignorance sparks destruction

THE wonderfully-carved sculptures that stood for 2000 years undisturbed and were known to the world as the Bhamiyan Buddha statues, stand no more in the valley or in the mountains of Afghanistan. The hundred and fifty feet Buddha statues on the cliff of the Bhamiyan city mountain for 2000 years are evidence of the rich civilisation of the Afghan people.

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