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Indore:
A Capuchin priest has been awarded the
Honesty Award for the year 2013 for journalism.
Fr. Jacob Kani, editor-in-chief of Indian Currents weekly, was conferred the
‘Honesty Award 2013 for Journalism’ at Indore in Madhya Pradesh on Dec 30,
2013.
According to a press statement, the award has been given to him in recognition
of honest, fearless and courageous stand taken by him as a journalist and
editor of the weekly over the years.
Honesty Awards are established by the Honesty Foundation, Goa that is founded
by Bernardo De Sousa with the intention of “recognizing and awarding every act
of honesty in all walks of life.”
The Foundation had been awarding honest students in the past years. It
introduced the award for honest journalism for the first time in 2013.
The priest received a citation and cash prize of 30,001 rupees during the annual
“Knit India” program organized by the Universal Solidarity Movement (USM)
founded by Fr. Varghese Alengaden.
The statement said that the priest through the publication has been waging a
relentless battle against corruption, religious fundamentalism and growing
communalism in the country.
Whenever the country faced the onslaught of religious fundamentalism and
communal tensions, Indian Currents came out courageously and strongly against
such forces and ideologies, while adhering to the values of truth, justice and
peace. More specifically, Indian Currents was in the forefront to expose those
behind the violence in Kandhamal, it added.
In September 2012, Fr. Kani received the Bennet Memorial Award for Excellence
in Journalism in New Delhi.
The Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA) honored Indian Currents in
December 2013 for “fearless journalism” as the weekly completed 25 years of
publication.
Dr.
Jacob Kani, Ofm Cap., the Editor-in-Chief of Indian Currents weekly, was
conferred the ‘Honesty Award 2013 for Journalism’ at Indore, Madhya Pradesh on
December 30, 2013.
The
award was in recognition of the honest, fearless and courageous stand taken by
him as a journalist and the Editor of the Weekly over the years.
Honesty
Awards are established by the Honesty Foundation, Goa which is founded by Mr.
Bernardo De Sousa and family with the intention of “recognizing and awarding
every act of honesty in all walks of life.” The Foundation had been awarding
honest students in the past years. It introduced the award for honest
journalism for the first time in 2013.
Dr. Kani received the first Honesty Award for
Journalism, which consisted of a citation and cash prize of Rs. 30,001/-,
during the annual “Knit India” programme organized by the Universal Solidarity
Movement (USM) founded by Fr. Varghese Alengaden twenty years ago.
Dr.
Kani and Indian Currents have been waging a relentless battle against
corruption, religious fundamentalism and the growing communalism in the
country. Whenever the country faced the onslaught of religious fundamentalism
and communal tensions, Indian Currents came out courageously and strongly
against such forces and ideologies, while adhering to the values of truth,
justice and peace. More specifically, Indian Currents was in the forefront to
expose those behind the violence in Kandhamal against the innocent and poor
Christians, in addition to strongly condemning all types of human right
violations.
In recognition
of the above, Indian Currents had received the Human Rights Award in 2008 and
2009. In September, last year, Dr. Kani
received the Bennet Memorial Award for Excellence in Journalism in New Delhi.
The Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA) honoured Indian Currents in
December 2013, during its Golden Jubilee celebrations, for “fearless
journalism” as the Weekly completed 25 years of uninterrupted publication.
During
the award function at Indore, together with Dr. Kani, the Honesty Foundation
also conferred Honesty Award on Mr P.J. Ashiko, an honest and dedicated teacher
and a trend setter, whose main concern in life has always been the holistic
growth of his students. Ashiko started his teaching career at the age of 17
with the tribal students in the North East, later on moving to Ujjain, M.P.
where he still continues his teaching mission.
Source: press statement
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