New Delhi | 1 month ago
India celebrates X-mas with carols, joy, feasting
New Delhi, Dec 25 - Homes decked up with lights and stars, midnight masses, church services, exchanging gifts, carol singing and feasting -- India, where Christians constitute 2.3 percent of the population, Sunday celebrated Christmas with a lot of merrymaking.People met friends and relatives, visited churches, distributed plum cakes and organised special parties on the festival that celebrates th ... read more

Shillong | 1 month ago
Christmas celebrated with fervour in Meghalaya
Shillong, Dec 25 - Christians in Meghalaya Sunday celebrated Christmas with fervour and spirit, exchanging greetings and gifts with friends and relatives.Bishops and pastors led services and delivered sermons in various cathedrals and churches of different Christian denominations in the capital, Shillong.Archbishop of Shillong Archdiocese, Reverend Dominic Jala presided the midnight Christmas mass ... read more

Kuala Lumpur | 8 months ago
Malaysian PM seeks 'global movement of moderates'
Kuala Lumpur, May 17 - Invoking Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has urged for 'a global movement of moderates'.Addressing a gathering at Oxford University, Najib opposed political violence in any form and pointed to the path of moderation preached by all religions. He said that those who were taking the violent path and engaging in ac ... read more

London | 8 months ago
Carey, Cannon renew wedding vows
London, May 3 - Singer Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon renewed their wedding vows in a hospital shortly after the birth of their twins on their anniversary.The pop superstar gave birth to a boy and a girl at a medical facility in Los Angeles Saturday, exactly three years after she married Cannon in the Bahamas, reports contactmusic.com.The couple had planned to renew their vows that day, but it was p ... read more

9 months ago
Stamp to mark Pope John Paul's India visit silver jubilee
Thrissur -, April 29 - Indian postal department will Sunday release a special stamp to commemorate the 25th anniversary of then Pope, John Paul II's visit to the country.The 'Special Day Postal Cover', released in association with the archdiocese of Thrissur, depicts a frontal view of the Basilica of Our Lady of Doulours, Thrissur.The cover also has a postal cachet mark - of the rostrum used by Jo ... read more

Bhopal | 9 months ago
Christians protest profiling in Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal, April 21 - After the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat, the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in Madhya Pradesh has begun profiling Chritians in the state, drawing protests from the community.A five-member delegation, led by Reverend Leo Cornelio, the Catholic Archbishop of Bhopal, met the chief minister Thursday on the matter and expressed their apprehension about the measure, launched b ... read more

New Delhi | 10 months ago
Writer William Dalrymple turns to first Anglo-Afghan war
New Delhi, March 14 - Award winning writer William Dalrymple, the author of books like 'Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India' and 'White Mughals', is exploring the genesis of conflict and western interference in the Afghanistan-Pakistan sector in his new historical treatise 'The Return of the King: Shah Shuja and the first Anglo-Afghan War'.The book has prompted Dalrymple to return ... read more

Dhaka | 11 months ago
Bangla gangrape victim kills self
Dhaka, Feb 23 - A tribal girl, who was a gangrape victim, took her life in a Bangladesh village after one of her alleged rapists who was to marry her as part of a pact brokered by the local Catholic priest ditched her.The gangrape victim took her life after the settlement did not work out. It was forced on her family by community leaders and Shurshunipara Catholic Church in Godagari, a sub-distric ... read more

Kuala Lumpur | 11 months ago
Valentine's Day not Christian fest: Malaysian churches
Kuala Lumpur, Feb 11 - Valentine's Day is a secular observance that is not celebrated by churches anywhere, the Council of Churches of Malaysia said Friday, responding to a raging controversy in the Muslim-majority country.Its general secretary Reverend Herman Shastri said the National Fatwa Council had erred when it referred to Valentine's Day as a Christian observance and has hurt the feelings o ... read more

Wellington | 1 year ago
No progress on rescue for 29 trapped in mine
Wellington, Nov 21 - Three days after a gas explosion trapped 29 men in a New Zealand coal mine, officials said Sunday it was still too dangerous to send rescuers underground to look for them.'If we send people underground we could lose lives, and I'm not prepared to do that,' police superintendent Gary Knowles told a news conference after briefing tearful family members who attended prayer vigils ... read more