Tag: Christians in India

THE march was led by Ignatius L Mascarenhas the Bishop of Simla-Chandigarh Diocese, Dominic Bosco the Vicar general, and many pastors of different denominations

A nun at a convent was gang raped at Ranaghat in Nadia district when about a dozen armed men entered inside the Convent of Jesus and Mary.

“My government will ensure that there is complete freedom of faith and that everyone has the undeniable right to retain or adopt the religion of his or her choice without coercion or undue influence," Modi said.

U.S. President Barack Obama recently defended his adherence to the Christian faith, but emphasized that there would be nothing wrong if he were not a follower of Christ.

"Today, the Indian society is under attack from Muslims, Christians, Maoists and terrorists and they want to end us as a nation,” reads a pamphlet by the outfit distributed along with right wing publications.

A religion-wise breakup of the ministers who took office earlier and now seems to reflect the importance the party attaches to the Christian community. There's no Christian representation in the Modi government while every other religion has found favor with Prime Minister Modi.

282/543. To say that’s a landslide victory is to state the obvious. The media saw it coming. They called it the ‘Modi wave.’ Some veterans in the Congress party saw it coming – they decided to save their ‘hard-earned’ money that would otherwise have gone down the drain called election spending and stayed away from the contest.

At a press conference in Kakinada on Tuesday national core committee member K Prabhu Kumar and party official spokesman Suvarta Raju announced that the decade-old recognised national party would strive for "social justice" to all sections.

ANDHRA Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka top the list of Indian states in which Christians faced incidents of targeted communal violence in the year 2013,...

THE report said over a thousand persons including Bishops, priests, laity, nuns, NGOs and NRIs have appealed through an online forum to political parties to consider a Christian for VP in view of the singular contributions of the community to the nation.