FOR the first time in 65 years after Independence , young girls in Wadia village near Palanpur are getting ready for a mass marriage. This simple act of tying the nuptial knot will change the course of this small village’s history.
PROGRESS achieved in society over the years has caused grave problems like corruption, violence, exploitation and harassment of women and the aged, Marthoma Church’s spiritual head Joseph Mar Thoma Metropolitan has said.
AN Israeli embassy car blew up on Monday in New Delhi, injuring two persons. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known, according to police. News reports said the car, parked down the street from the Israeli embassy in central Delhi, was badly burnt.
BELEAGUERED Christians in the Kashmir valley received support from unexpected quarters when chairman of the All Party Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Shah Geelani said he disapproved of the Shariah court’s judgment that banished four Christian pastors from J&K.
NASIR-ul-Islam, a deputy of grand Mufti Bashir-ud-din, told reporters that the Sharia court had found the pastors guilty of alluring Muslim youth in Kashmir to Christianity.
A R Rahman’s ‘Hosanna’ song in Hindi Film ‘Ekk Deewana Tha’ to be released on February 17, 2012, has already sounded a discordant note among Jews and Christians.
THE Church of South India got a new moderator when Bishop Gnanasigamony Devakadasham, head of the Kanyakumari diocese, was elected by a margin of 94 votes.
THE Christian Medical College (CMC) in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, has bagged two national awards recently. The famed medical institution secured the honors in the best multi-specialty (non-metro area) and best cardiology care in India categories.
ONE of the top Muslim clergymen in Jammu & Kashmir, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has launched an orthodox Islamic website to prevent what he claimed as religious apostasy and ‘conversions’ among Kashmiri Muslims.
THE murder of Christian activist Rabindra Parichha in Kandhamal district of Orissa in India has been interpreted as “a strategic move by extremists to create a climate of fear among Christians” in the run-up to Christmas.
