Rome: Corruption’ is a cancer to society, Pope Francis has said on his Twitter page. In a message on his Twitter account, which has over 22 million followers, Pope Francis on Tuesday deplored graft, calling it “a cancer on society”. The message came on the day when five officials fromContinue Reading
A report published in the journal Scientific Reports on Oct. 5 suggests the possibilityContinue Reading
The City Harvest Church leaders are convicted for siphoning of US$35 millionContinue Reading
Washington: Climate change, increase in agricultural land use and population growth may lead to severe water shortage in Nepal in the coming decades, according to a new study. Using a sophisticated modelling tool called the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), researchers at the Baylor University were able to accountContinue Reading
The Catholic team won by four runs in a close contestContinue Reading
Taipei: Taiwan has become the world’s fastest ageing country this decade, overtaking Japan, the US, Britain and other developed nations, according to a report published on Monday by the National Development Council (NDC). With a total population of 23.4 million, there are 2.86 people aged 65 and above, EFE newsContinue Reading
Homs, A Syrian priest who was captured by Islamic State militants in May thought he would die for his faith. Now, he credits the Virgin Mary and the help of a Muslim friend for his escape. “This is the miracle the Good Lord gave me: while I was a prisonerContinue Reading
Washington: India witnessed religiously motivated killings, arrests, riots and coerced religious conversions and the police in some cases failed to respond effectively to communal violence, according to the US state department report on International Religious Freedom 2014. In the India section of the Congressional mandated annual report released by secretaryContinue Reading
Paris: Pope Francis today called on the world to reject the “idolatry of money”, claiming that greed was driving societies to ruin. In an interview in his modest apartment in the Vatican, the pope told the glossy French magazine Paris Match that the world economic system as it stands wasContinue Reading
In a landmark judgment on 7 October the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) upheld the death sentence of Malik Mumtaz Qadri, 30, who murdered the former Governor of Punjab, Salmaan Taseer, a liberal Muslim, on 4 January, 2011. Qadri, one of Taseer’s official bodyguards from the Elite Force, shot himContinue Reading
