Batala (Punjab): Members of Christian and Hindu communities clashed and indulged in vandalising public property here today over publication of a picture of Jesus Christ in an allegedly objectionable manner, prompting authorities to clamp an indefinite curfew. Read more »
Shillong (Meghalaya): A convent school in Shillong filed an FIR against a Delhi-based publisher for publishing a picture of Jesus Christ holding a cigarette in one hand and a beer can on the other in its cursive writing textbook. Read more »
The catastrophe has driven a wedge between Haiti’s religions as Christian groups make inroads among shaken Voodoo followers — some drawn by the steady flow of aid through evangelical missions and others frightened by a disaster they saw as a warning from God. Read more »
VHP today alleged that foreign funds were being used for religious conversion with Centre’s knowledge. Read more »
Two snapshots from a recent tourist trip to Europe: We are in Prague, the lovely and lively capital of the Czech Republic, where the bars and cafes are full, the glitzy crystal and art shops are busy, and the dozens of historic cathedrals and churches are largely empty — except for gawking tourists snapping photos. In The Prague Post, an English-language weekly newspaper, a front-page article reports, in titillating detail, how the city has become Europe’s new capital for pornographic filmmaking, while an op-ed examines why only 19% of the people in this once-religious country believe that God exists. Read more »
Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Ten Americans detained last week while trying to take 33 Haitian children out of the country were charged Thursday with kidnapping children and criminal association, a government official said. Some Americans are connected with Baptist Church, Idaho. Read more »
The German news magazine Der Spiegel reports that the number of sexual abuse cases in Germany by Catholic clerics and laymen is much higher than was previously thought. Read more »
Bidar (Karnataka): The Bidar district police Thursday claimed to have solved the case of an attack on a church in Humnabad town in Bidar district on November 17 with the arrest of a former pastor of the church and three hired goons who allegedly attacked the church. Read more »
The Church in Kerala has been hit by yet another controversy, this time by allegations from a Class IX student about sexual abuse by priests in their hostel, two weeks after her sister died of suspected poisoning at their school run by the Orthodox church. Read more »
The Chairman of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal Mr. Kamal Thapa said, “Over 1 million Hindus are converted to Christianity after Nepal was declared as Secular state.” He was addressing his cadres in Bara district. Read more »
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