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Respected Holy Father, Great hope for a positive change in the Catholic Church is pinned on the Pontificate of your Holiness and recent statements indicate that this hope may not be misplaced. The future, your Holiness said in November 2013, is in the respectful coexistence of diversity and in the fundamental right to religious freedom [...]

When Nelson Mandela spent almost three decades in solitary confinement he was not alone — he had the pictures of a few Indian deities and the writings of William Shakespeare for inspiration.  Locked in jail on Robben Island, newspapers were banned and letters from loved ones a rare treat. Where did he find the inspiration [...]

Washington:A U.S.-based Hindu-American group has launched a mass campaign against a Congressional resolution on religious freedom and human rights in India and urged the U.S. government to continue its policy to not to grant visa to Narendra Modi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate.  The legislation (HR 417), introduced on November 18, by Congressmen Keith Ellison [...]

Its been alleged that around 13 Islamists brutally killed Ajitbhai Pawanbhai Khuman (32)  and his brother Bharatbhai Pawanbhai Khumani (27) on Saturday evening by hacking them to death in village Gundran, Taluka Lilia, District Amreli, Saurashtra Region of Gujarat.  Accused : Mohammad Nuru, Usman Nuru, Hakim Nuru, Imran Mohammad, Salim Abdul Khalid Mohammad, Sumal Abdul [...]

Kannur: In yet another gory incident, heavily armed CPIM goons unleashed the attack against BJP activists.Vinod, a BJP activist succumbed to death at Pariyaram medical collage today evening and many have seriously injured. BJP activists Lakshmanan and Kunhiraman,  are admitted in Pariyaram Medical college ICU with critical injuries. Armed CPM thugs stopped the vehicle of [...]

Hamilton police have arrested three men in the attacks on the Hindu Samaj temple and Hamilton Mountain Mosque that took place just days after the September 11, 2001 World Trade Centre terrorist attacks. The case against the three would be prosecuted as a hate crime, police said. The Hindu temple was destroyed in the arson. The three accused are Christopher [...]

PONDA: The demolition of ‘Ram Sethu’, a bridge of the Ramayana era, by the Union government would bring immense loss to India, the 145th Pithadeeshwar of Sree Govardhan Mutt Puri, Jagadguru Shankaracharya Swami Nischalanand Saraswati stated. Sree Nischalanand Saraswati Maharaj was addressing a ‘Dharma sabha’, a mass religious awakening meet, at Marcaim village panchayat ground, [...]

Puducherry:  The  Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi and 22 others have been acquitted in Puducherry in the 2004 murder of a Kancheepuram temple employee. A Sankararaman, the manager of the Varadarajaperumal temple in Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu, was allegedly murdered on September 3, 2004, in the temple premises.  Sankararaman had allegedly written several letters to publications claiming [...]

Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh on Sunday defended the Uttar Pradesh government’s notification providing for a compensation of Rs. 5 lakh only to Muslims affected in the recent Muzzaffarnagar communal riots. “Injustice cannot be done to those Muslim families who have lost not only their members but all possessions and did not want to return [...]

A Christian woman residing in the Hindu-majority island of Bali was sentenced to 14-months in prison for calling Hindu offerings “dirty and disgusting,” the Supreme Court recently announced. “The defendant Rusgiani, who is also known as Yohana, has been proven validly and convincingly guilty of purposefully and publicly expressing herself in a way to ignite [...]