India correspondent of Crux remembers John L. Allen, Jr.

MUMBAI, India – As I received the painful devastating news of the passing of John L. Allen Jr., my Editor in chief at Crux, I found it providential, that Jesus called John home on the anniversary of the horrific burning alive of Graham Steins and his two young sons in the Odisha state of India.

The modern-day Martyrs of Odisha – John’s term – had an intense place in John’s heart. Writing for the Boston Globe, John visited India together with Inés San Marin – Crux‘s Rome Bureau Chief – to...