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I was born and raised in an Italian Catholic family, but I was never convinced by that ideology. After about 8 years of attentive study of both Christian and Hindu texts, I officially converted to Hinduism in 1978, and I have been a very active, dedicated, vocal and unapologetic Hindu since. In 1984 I started travelling around India, [...]

We’ll probably be hearing soon how he’s really an undercover Hindutvadi RSS agent who secretly poisoned the Pope, giving him pakoras and easter eggs that his wife Usha and his kids made when they visited the Vatican. After visiting Italy, Vice President JD Vance arrived in India for a four-day trip with his family. However, [...]

Latvian and Lithuanian neo-pagans have called on Pope Francis to end local Catholic opposition to their quest for religious recognition in the Baltic states, ahead of the pontiff's visit to the region Saturday. [...]

Says Vatican-backed Norway is sidetracking his effort at brokering seminal peace deal between Colombian government and FARC guerillas  India’s foreign office is keeping itself updated on an interesting, if trifle peculiar, slugfest that’s currently on between the Vatican and Indian spiritual guru, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. The Art of Living (AOL) Foundation founder is miffed [...]

On Christmas Day 2014, Delhi-based novelist Chandrahas Choudhury wrote in Bloomberg of a chilling vision of the future: an India that is 100 per cent Hindu. He insists that this is the long-term strategy of the RSS, the national volunteer Hindu organisation from which Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sprung. Careful to also condemn the [...]

Dr Koenraad Elst discusses the Hindu forgetfulness over the activities of ‘Saint’ Francis Xavier who brought the Inquisition into India to torture and kill Hindus during the Portuguese occupation of Goa but worse many Hindus send their children proudly to educational institutes named after him. Can you imagine schools and colleges named after Hitler, Himmler [...]