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- India
PM Modi visits Delhi church on Easter
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Sacred Heart Cathedral Church here on Sunday on the occasion of Easter. An official video showed the prime minister being welcomed at the church…
- Kerala
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church’s supreme head invites PM Modi to visit
New Delhi: Kerala-headquartered Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church’s supreme head, Baselios Marthoma Mathews III on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his office in New Delhi and extended an invite to…
- India
TN church priest held after nursing student complains of sexual abuse
Chennai: A Church priest in Kanyakumari was arrested on Monday over alleged sexual abuse of a nursing student. Based on a complaint from the nursing student, the Kanniyakumari police had registered a…
- India
Kerala: Church priest counters Archbishop’s statement on supporting BJP
Thiruvananthapuram: Capuchin church priest and the editor of ‘Indian Currents’ weekly, Father Suresh Mathew, said on Sunday that Archbishop Mar Joseph Pamplany’s statement on supporting the BJP cannot be taken as the…
- Kerala
Video: First, a bus & car collide; then bus rams into church in Kerala
A KSRTC bus in Kerala met with an accident after colliding with a car near Kizhavallor in the Pathanamthitta district. Thereafter, the bus rammed into the wall of a church. Several passengers…
- India
Mob attacks church in Chhattisgarh over conversions, SP injured
Raipur: A mob attacked and vandalised a church in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district due to conflicts over religious conversions. The superintendent of police, who reached the spot, suffered injuries in the attack. According…
- Hate Crime
Karnataka: Days after Christmas, church in Mysuru vandalised
Just days after Christmas, a church in Karnataka’s Mysuru was vandalised by unknown people. The statue of Baby Jesus was also reported damaged. According to the police investigating the case, the incident…
- Bangalore
Accused in attempted sexual assault at Bengaluru church premises held
Bengaluru: The man, who attempted sexual assault in the premises of the Bengaluru church but fled when the victim shouted for help, has been arrested after a month-long hunt, police said on…
- Kerala
Kerala parish does away with wooden coffins, starts using cotton shroud for burial
Alappuzha: A church in Kerala has stopped the time-honoured practice of using wooden coffins for burial in favour of eco-friendly cotton cloth. St George Church in Arthunkal near here under the Latin…
- Top Stories
Hyderabad Archbishop to be first Dalit Cardinal at St. Peter’s Basilica Vatican City
Hyderabad: The Archbishop of Hyderabad Diocese Dr. Poola Anthony on Saturday will be the first Dalit in history to be installed as one of the new 21 cardinals, as previously announced by…
- World
1 dead, 2 injured in Alabama church shooting
Washington: One person died and two others were injured after a shooting at a church in the US state of Alabama, police said on Friday. Police in the city of Vestavia Hills said…
- Andhra Pradesh
New Tirupati railway station design slammed for not portraying ‘Indian culture’
Hyderabad: Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday released a model of the future Tirupati railway station, eliciting a volley of criticism from several users on Twitter for not portraying ‘Indian…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Construction of church commences at new Secretariat
Hyderabad: The foundation stone was laid for the construction of a church within the premises of Telangana Secretariat on Thursday. Amidst communal flare-ups across the country, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader Rajeshwar…
- India
Goa polls: Congress makes its candidates take pledge of party loyalty before God
Panaji: Ahead of the next month’s Goa Assembly elections, the Congress, which was hit hardest by defections in the BJP-ruled state in the last five years, made its candidates swear before God…
- India
US journalist observes hunger strike over persecution of Christians in India
California-based journalist Pieter Friedrich, on Thursday, began a seven-day hunger strike, protesting against the persecution of Christians in India. The atack on Christians while prevalent across the country off-late is especially worrisome…
