Guwahati: After the Centre turned it down, the Assam government on Thursday, for the first time, extended the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) for another six months, thereby declaring the entire state as a “disturbed area”. Disclosing that the Government of India, after thoroughly reviewing the overall law andContinue Reading
Panaji: After releasing its fact-finding report on the desecration of crosses, the committee, comprising members of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman’s social work wing – the Council for Social Justice and Peace (CSJP) and the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS), Mumbai, will be setting up anContinue Reading
In a novel pro-governance initiative, Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu has declared Friday as the day of the week when he will meet with the poor and underprivileged sections of Andhra Pradesh society to hear their grievances and try to resolve them. The day has been declared as the “DayContinue Reading
Mumbai: Churches, mosques and temples in Mumbai came forward to offer succor to people stranded in floods and heavy rains that devastated the western Indian metropolis. At least five inches of rain fell on August 29 alone halting normal life in India’s commercial capital. Air and rail service were suspendedContinue Reading
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Lucknow : The Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court on Monday asked the state government to submit details of church properties being used for commercial purposes in Uttar Pradesh. A bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice DS Tripathi passed the order on a PIL filed by Swaraj Party ofContinue Reading
Joshua J. McElwee Rome: Irish Redemptorist Fr. Tony Flannery has been prohibited from publicly celebrating Mass for nearly six years. The Vatican’s doctrinal congregation suspended him from ministry in February 2012 after he refused to revise some views he had expressed in a religious magazine run by his order. InContinue Reading
Chandigarh: A self-declared religious leader in Haryana, Satguru Rampalji Maharaj, has been found not guilty of illegally confining thousands of followers and obstructing officials in 2014 when they stormed his 12-acre ashram. Six people were killed as his devotees turned into a private army to prevent his arrest; hundreds wereContinue Reading
Church of South India pulls out in protestContinue Reading
The use of church properties for commercial purposes was illegal under the Places of Worship Special Provision Act, 1991
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