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Politics and Ethics of Assam Riots The communities of North East India (NEI) are fleeing from their respective work and living places with clueless and anxious faces in jam- packed special exodus trains. They had moved over to the other parts of India for education and employment. The NEI communities have been under apathy and discrimination by the mainland Indian politicians. The NEI region is still found underdeveloped in the midst of rich natural resources, challenged by insurgency as response to political pressure. There have been cross border infiltration by the citizens of the neighboring countries. The mass exodus is a fall-out of the recent violence in Assam. This particular violence was between the Bodos (a native tribal community) and the infiltrated communities and recent settlers who marginalize the rest of the local ethnic communities . Media reported that the violence took 77+ lives and damaged several crores worth of property that triggered panic, insecurity

Our God with Struggling People”

“Coming of the Messiah is Good News for the Oppressed” God of life… Wake us up with your life giving Words. Splash our faiths with your Truth, which can make gasp and catch our breath. Draw us deeper into the depths of our Spiritual lives, where we may learn to realize more by your life giving words. Surprise us with deeper meaning of the Scriptures which would help us to enlarge our vision and action. Fill us with the sense of urgency to perceive and obey your powerful words. Renew and strengthen our faiths. In Jesus name we pray………… Amen Advent is a special season in Christian ecclesial faith and tradition, marked by a spirit of expectation, of anticipation, of preparation, of longing for deliverance and for justice. Advent is a season of hope and expectation within the context of exclusion, poverty, untouchability, oppression, violence, stigma and discrimination and injustice in the world. The joy of advent contrasts sharply with the suffering people who live in the edges of the soc