Monthly Archives: January 2014

DESPITE an effort at peace talks, violence continues to spread throughout South Sudan. Fleeing before the troops are the civilians, now numbering nearly 2500 a day, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

A prominent Indian social activist in Saudi Arabia has launched a matrimonial website to help South Asian expatriates, who are against the dowry system,...

Ariel Sharon, one of the most influential figures in Israel’s history, a military commander and political leader who at the height of his power redrew the country’s electoral map, only to suffer a severe stroke from which he never recovered, died Saturday in a hospital near Tel Aviv. He was 85.

The Codex Washingtonianus, which is generally recognized as the third oldest Bible in the world, is now on display in a Washington, D.C., Smithsonian...

ASIA Noreen Bibi, the first Pakistani woman sentenced to death for blasphemy in November 2010, thanked Pope Francis and all the churches praying for her and credited them with her survival after four-and-a-half years in prison.

BENNY Hinn's engagement has set off protests among locals concerned that the charismatic preacher will be flying into the country with "a hidden agenda."

CANADIAN churchgoers believe they know how to explain their faith in Jesus to other people. But they seldom do it, according to a survey of Canadian Protestants.

By Nicole Unice I love the new year. I love fresh starts and new beginnings. I love the chance to be more intentional with life,...

Data on banks released by the Reserve Bank of India recently show that more than 1.33 crore accounts of all kinds are not operated and as a result scheduled commercial banks across the country had Rs 3,652.3 crore in unclaimed funds as on December 2012.

PREMARITAL sex is "immoral" and against the "tenets of every religion", a Delhi court has said while holding that every act of sexual intercourse between two adults on the promise of marriage does not become rape.