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Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun several times between 2014 and 2016, is currently out on bail.
The clergyman has been shifted to the sub-jail in Pala after completing his medical examination at a government hospital.
Granting bail, the court directed him not to leave the state till the chargesheet is read out to him on August 13 and to be present court on the dates of hearing of the case.
The Ministry of Home Affairs on Monday said the Missionaries of Charity's application for renewal of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) registration was refused on December 25 for not meeting eligibility conditions as some adverse inputs were received.
The Vatican normally exhumes the bodies of candidates for beatification and subsequent sainthood.
The vote swept aside the opposition of the Roman Catholic Church.
A family of six, including two young girls, were responsible for the attacks, national police chief Tito Karnavian said.
Banerjee joins the list of Indians and people of Indian origin who have received the prestigious Nobel prize in fields like Physics, Chemistry, Peace, Economic Sciences and Medicine.
Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Monday promised free pilgrimage to various religious centres, including Ayodhya and Ajmer Sharif, if his party is voted to power in Goa in the assembly polls due in next February, which he said is a 'third guarantee' being given by AAP to Goans.
Robbers made off with priceless jewels from a state museum in Dresden on Monday in what German media described as the biggest art heist since World War Two. The thieves broke into the Green Vault at Dresden's Royal Palace -- home to around 4,000 precious objects of ivory, gold, silver and jewels -- at dawn after a power cut deactivated the alarm. The stolen items included brilliant-cut diamonds that belonged to a collection of jewellery of 18th-century Saxony ruler Augustus the Strong. Here are some of the items thus far confirmed as stolen by the Saxony police.
A priest in Ireland's County Offaly has joined the long Irish Catholic tradition of priests engaging in pugilism.
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Christmas was celebrated across the country on Saturday, but the festivities were low-key for the second year in a row due to Covid, with churches and other events witnessing lower footfalls, people avoiding large get-togethers and the administration in some areas imposing certain curbs.
A shelter home run by the MoC in Ranchi has allegedly been involved in "selling" three children and "giving away" another one.
Coming just a day after she was canonised by Pope Francis in the Vatican City, the death anniversary had a special significance on Monday.
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According to custom, only believers of Hinduism are permitted entry at the temple, a major pilgrim centre and tourist attraction in the southern part of the country.
Police had said the nun was subjected to rape and unnatural sex by the accused at the guest house of St Francis Mission Home 13 times between 2014 and 2016.
The bench observed that if a hasty investigation was conducted, the accused would be allowed to go scot-free.
They alleged that the police probing the case was trying to sabotage the investigation.
Nike Inc, the world's largest sportswear maker, said it had ended its contract with Manny Pacquiao after the Filipino boxer described gays as "worse than animals".
Good Roman Catholics do not need to breed like "rabbits", Pope Francis said, but should practice "responsible" parenting instead.
The Bishop will have to surrender his passport and his entry to Kerala will be restricted.
She alleged that by continuing in the position of Jalandhar diocese Bishop, Franco Mulakkal and his close associates "are using the wealth of the diocese to divert" the course of the police investigation.
Police have initiated action against independent MLA P C George who had levelled derogatory charges against the victimised nun.
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Police have detained a total of 10 persons in connection with the alleged gang rape of an elderly nun and loot at a convent school in West Bengal's Nadia district.
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Prayers were held across the Missionaries of Charity centres and churches all over the state to mark the late Roman Catholic nun's birth anniversary and to also commemorate her journey to sainthood on September 4.
Archbishop Anil Couto's instructions, though politically charged, are not unusual or unprecedented.
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