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General
Secy's. Messege:
Dear Readers,
 Greetings
in the most precious name of Christ, our Lord.
We,
as
Church
of
North India
have always been blessed by your fervent prayers and encouragement.
By God’s grace our endeavor in His vineyard has been rewarding in
the past.
I consider it a privilege to have visited our partners in different
part of the world sharing our struggles and expressing gratitude for their
sustaining solidarity.
In the faces of communal tension and instigated hatred we have
taken a stand against the caste based discrimination in
India
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CNI
Mission Statement
:
"The Church of North India as a
United and Uniting together is committed to announce the Good News of the
reign of God inaugurated through death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in
proclamation and to demonstrate in actions to restore the integrity of God's
creation through continuous struggle against the demonic powers by breaking
down the barriers of caste, class, gender, economic inequality and
exploitation of the nature."
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DIOCESAN MISSIONARY MOVEMENT PROGRAMME LAUNCHED IN SAMBALPUR DIOCESE
The
12th day of June 2007 marked a glorious day not only in
the life of Sambalpur Diocese but also in the life of the Church of
North India as a whole as a Pilot Outreach Project of Church of
North India, the Diocesan Missionary Movement was launched at
Bolangir by Mr. P. K. Zachariah, the Honorary Director for Mission
and Evangelism in Church of North India Synod....more
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CNI COLLEGE
INTRODUCES QUOTA FOR DALIT
CHRISTIANS
The
St. Stephen's College of Delhi University, a pride of
Church of North
India
, has decided to increase the overall quota for the Christian
students to 40 percent by introducing another 10 percent reservation
for Dalit Christians....more
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CNI
WELCOMES RANGANATH MISHRA COMMISSION REPORTS ON DALIT CHRISTIANS AND
DALIT MUSLIMS
The
Church of North India, a virtually Dalit church, has unreservedly
welcomed the Reports of The National Commission for Religious and
Linguistic Minorities (NCRLM) headed by the former Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of India, Justice Ranganath Mishra, submitted to
the Government of India in May 2007....more
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CNI
GENERAL SECRETARY, THE REVD. DR. ENOS DAS PRADHAN VISITS DERBYSHIRE
CHURCHES
The
CNI
Derbyshire Churches celebrated its 30 years of its partnership on
May 19, 20
, 2007 in
Derby
.
The Rev. Dr. Enos Das Pradhan, General Secretary,
CNI
Synod was the chief guest. The Churches together in Derbyshire came
in Partnership with The Church of North India in 1977. ......more
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CNI
WFCS CONFERENCE HELD
The
CNI
WFCS organized a two days conference in
Ludhiana
on
May 28, 29
, 2007. The conference was held at the
Kalvary
Church
. Theme for the conference was “For
freedom Christ has set us free: stand fast therefore, and do not
submit again to a yoke of slavery” Galatians 5:1 ...more
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NCCDC
URGES CHURCHES TO REACT TO NCRLM REPORT
At a meeting of the National
Coordination Committee for Dalit Christians (NCCDC) held on 28th May
2007 in Delhi under the Chairmanship of the Rev. Dr. Enos Das
Pradhan, the General Secretary of
CNI
Synod and Chairman of NCCI Commission an Polity and National
Governance, all the Churches in the country were urged to urgently
respond to the issues of equal rights to Dalit Christians....more
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AASTHA
HOSPICE ON AIDS OPENED
The
Christian
Hospital
, Neemuch in Madhya Pradesh built in 1911 was temporarily
non-functional due to financial crunches. To revive the same, the
Central Regional Board of Health Services (CRBHS) under The
Synodical Board of Health Services (SBHS),
New Delhi
approached the Madhya Pradesh State AIDS Control Society ....more |
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B.ed.
college
INAUGURATED
The Rev. Dr. Enos Das Pradhan, General Secretary of the Synod of the
Church
of
North India
, officially inaugurated the B. Ed College in the St. Michael’s
School campus under the governance of the Diocese of Durgapur ....more |
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News
from Far and Near
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Apology
The
editorial team of the CNI News apologises for including the news
“Saving the Girl Child” under the section “News Far and
Near” related to the
Ratlam
Hospital
case which was sourced from Daily Excelsior,
Jammu
, March 15, 2007. This was an unintended error and hence highly
regretted. An enquiry by the investigation team constituted
by the CNI Synod has given a clean chit to the Ratlam Hospital. |
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Investigating
Team gives clean chit
An independent Investigation Team appointed by the
Executive Committee of the Synod of the Church of North India has
found no prima facie evidence of any illegal abortion, pre-natal
determination of sex and the recovery of bones alleged to be carried
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Suicides
are about the living,
not the dead
A
FARMER in her mid-60s, Kamlabai Gudhe works as a labourer whenever
she can — for grain, not cash. It’s all she can get. So she
labours, sometimes for 12 hours, for Rs.25 worth of jowar....more
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Domestic
Dangers
In
India
, manual labour is cheap, and dignity of labour is cheaper. Thanks to this
feudal mentality, we never develop any kind of connect with those who help
us run our families like well-oiled machines while we are away attending
to our busy lives. The consequences of such a skewed approach when it
comes to dealing with domestic help can lead to disastrous consequences....more
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Suicides
on the increase in
Bangalore
Rashmi,
a bright MBBS graduate from the Kempe Gowda Institute of Medical Sciences
who dreamt of becoming a paediatrician chose to end her life when the
first university she approached for a postgraduate seat offered her a
course that wasn't the one she had in mind.
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Christians
write to PM on priest attacks
In
an open letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and president of the
Congress party Sonia Gandhi, the president of the All-India
Christian Council, Joseph D’Souza, has questioned the
UFA
government on its silence .....more
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Story
 Cobra
perfume, maida (flour) and sugar to chips can be seen stocked neatly on
the shelves in a small tiny shed in the
village
of
Mus.
It is more than a normal provision store. It’s a Mothers Union shop,
something that is connected to the lives of the women for the last 100
years, Mother’s union was set up by the church to do a myriad of
activities- from training young wives to be good housewives, to doing
church linen and even looking after the widows.
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Daily
Reading 
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Future
Events
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Certificate
Course on Youth Leadership Development
A
Certificate Course on Youth Leadership Development will be
organized at the Centre for Human Potential Development,
Nagpur
from 4th to 9th July 2007
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Follow
up programme on Gender Justice
The
Synodical Women’s Fellowship for Christian Service of Church of
North India is organizing a follow up programme on “Gender
Justice”
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Editorial
Team
Rev.
Dr. Enos Das Pradhan
Editor-in-Chief
Sudipta
Singh
Sushma
Ramaswami
Editors
Sanjana
Das
Rachael
Pradhan
Kasta
Dip
Associate Editors
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