Quetta: Four members of a Christian family were gunned down in southwestern Pakistan on Monday, police said, in the latest attack on the minority community. The family was travelling in a rickshaw when armed men on a motorcycle intercepted them and opened fire in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province.Continue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: The Syrian Mar Thoma Church and the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church on March 22 lashed out at the Pinarayi Vijayan government in Kerala for deciding to open closed liquor vends. The Kerala Catholic Bishop’s Conference (KCBC) had also slammed the “liquor policy” of the Vijayan government. The Church headsContinue Reading
Lahore: The family of Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman imprisoned now for nearly nine years on blasphemy charges has renewed hope that new pressures on the Pakistani government may lead to her release. Bibi’s husband Ashiq Masih, and her 18-year old daughter met with Pope Francis at the VaticanContinue Reading
With Christian community under increasing attack in Madhya Pradesh, the Catholic Association has moved the Jabalpur High Court seeking protection for its educational institutions
More than two centuries, Christian doctors and nurses, motivated by the example and teaching of Jesus Christ, have been at the forefront of efforts to alleviate human suffering, cure disease, and advance knowledge and understanding. Jesus of Nazareth taught: ‘Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothersContinue Reading
There has not been even one instance when a church was burnt or Christians attacked anywhere in the countryContinue Reading
By Stoyan Zaimov Christians pray for starving North Koreans during a prayer session in Seoul March 1, 2012. About 300 South Korean Christians also asked China not to send North Koreans detained in China back to the North, saying the North Koreans might be executed after their repatriation. An extensiveContinue Reading
Modi arrived on the south side of the White House, the protesters were on the north side Continue Reading
Chhotebhai Last week the Prime Minister dramatically announced that red beacons would be removed from the cars of netas and babus. The gullible junta applauded. What the PM did not say was whether the hooters/ sirens on these vehicles and their escorts, with which they cut a swathe through denseContinue Reading
Olivia Jackson On International Women’s Day, one statistic you may not hear much is that 83% of global women identify with a religious faith. Pew Research asked people in 84 countries how often they pray; in half of them, substantially more women than men say they pray on a dailyContinue Reading