Sleuths of the CB-CID’s idol wing on Sunday arrested seven persons, including a Christian priest and three traders, for stealing 11 panchaloha idols said to be worth about Rs 1 crore from various temples. While five idols were recovered from a river bed in Vellore district, one was seized from a Chennai lodge and the other five from a Puducherry shop. All the arrested were remanded in judicial custody on Monday. Read more »

Demanding immediate withdrawal of the permission given to a diplomatic delegation from European Union to visit Orissa’s riot-hit Kandhamal, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Sunday said the trip could trigger fresh tension in the district. Read more »

New Delhi: Weary of international scrutiny of troubled Kandhamal district in Orissa state, officials yesterday finally allowed delegates from the European Union (EU) to visit affected areas – as long as they do no fact-finding. Read more »

More than 200 people have been poisoned after drinking ‘holy water’ from wells during the religious ceremony of Epiphany here in east Siberia, a local consumer regulator said Monday. Read more »

VHP national secretary Surendra Jain today alleged that terrorist activities in the country are being carried out from mosques and churches. Read more »

After a long series of tribulations, including expulsion from their home country and long nineteen years in provisory refugee camps as citizens of nowhere, Hindus originally from Bhutan are coming to America . But, unfamiliar with the new country and western ways, insecure in their new life and throughly vulnerable to being influenced, they make for easy targets for conversion to proselytizing faiths. while Hinduism Today does not take an editorial stand against conversions, they must follow ethical standards, something too seldom ignored. The article below is reprinted from the Baptist Standard Newsjournal. Read more »

The strength of authentic religion is in keeping its tenets and knowing the threats from the outside. If in ancient Rome the leaders of the then existing religions would have said that Christianity is the enemy of freedom of religion that is going to extirpate each religion, the Christians would have shammed the “martyrs”. In ancient Rome, there were only five per cent Christians when, backed by a Christian Emperor (Constantine), this organized criminal group raped 95 per cent of the Romans to accept Christianity. This is what the fake religion of Christians (now making 6 per cent of Indian population) is going to perpetrate in India after the so-called “Mother Theresa” played the Trojan Horse and Sonia Gandhi is ready to play “Emperor Constantine” for the criminal spread of Christianity in India. The desperate Pope had partly admitted the criminality of Christianity in March 2000 for the first time. Demonstrably, the Christians needed about two millennia to admit their crimes … partly! Read more »

Kochi (Kerala): Kerala High Court asked Kerala Government to continue the probe against the Muringoor Divine centre. High court directive came while hearing the petition filed by Shri Venugopal from Allapuzha seeking court intervention to complete the probe. Read more »

Washington: The indictment of David Headley for involvement in planning the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks shows Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba too has global ambitions and is willing to undertake bold, mass-casualty operations, according to a top US counter-terrorism official. Read more »

Dindigul (Tamil Nadu): In a shocking case of caste discrimination, a dalit has alleged that he was forced to eat human faeces by a group of ‘high caste Christians’ for walking with chappals in their street in the district. Read more »