Mother Teresa will be declared a saint by Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church in a canonisation ceremony in Vatican City on Sunday in the presence of over a lakh of her followers from all over the world.
A white-label ATM is similar to a normal bank ATM but is not owned by a bank, instead by a private ATM service provider.
Father Uzhunnalil, who hails from Kerala, was abducted in March by terror group Islamic State which attacked an old-age home run by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in southern Yemeni city of Aden.
Who's behind The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs? The question riveting Silicon Valley as much as the satirical blog itself may be answered this week.
Filipino Manny Pacquiao has sparked criticism in his country after describing gay couples as 'worse than animals'.
While churches burn in the capital and lawmakers spew rubbish, Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not think it important to utter a word against these atrocities.
Over 100 Christians have been arrested for allegedly being part of a mob that lynched two men after Taliban suicide attacks on two churches.
Small gestures from Indira gave Sonia the confidence that she could be a daughter-in-law in the distinguished family.
Police investigating Saturday's attack on a church in New Panvel area are grilling some suspects, but are yet to get concrete leads.
The Rajasthan government recently made recitation of bhojan mantra in hostels compulsory.
Three male and two female police officers, two Catholic priests and a civilian were detained by the Tigers on Friday, after they ventured into rebel-controlled territory in Mannar.
'No society becomes democratic merely by holding an election,' says T N Seshan.
India's hockey captain Dilip Tirkey married Rourkela girl Meera at a Catholic church on Monday.
Pakistan were 409 for seven wickets in reply to England's 528 for nine declared.
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In a historic moment, Pope Francis met the grand imam of Cairo's Al-Azhar Mosque at the Vatican.
She too, in a sense, launched a thousand ships. It explains why author Jerry Pinto decided to chronicle the life and times of Bollywood's first item girl, Helen.
The couples wearing garlands and traditional wedding attire arrived at the polling booths and neighbouring Tirupur District immediately after their marriage, officials said.
China has ruled out talks with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama, unless he renounces his quest for Tibetan independence.
Sopena came to India in 1947 as a 22-year-old on a mission to serve mankind through the Society of Jesus, a male religious congregation of the Catholic Church founded by Spanish spearhead of counter-reformation, Ignatius Loyola in 1541.
The Congress high command on Thursday approved the list of its candidates for Lok Sabha polls in Kerala retaining all but two sitting MPs, including Union Ministers Shashi Tharoor and K V Thomas, giving a head start to the party in the campaign against rival Left Democratic Front.
Justin Langer was the foundation rock upon which Australia erected towering piles of runs during a golden era of success.
'Whether I die in Calcutta or in Paris, on a Wednesday or a Saturday, it does not matter, but you would not want me to come to India's door and then return to France without having visited India.' 'Either I will die or I will visit India!' Claude Arpi hails Georges Clemenceau, French prime minister during the Great War, a great man who loved India.
"He loved India. He loved the growth of the Church and the sterling missionary works, especially in the fields of education and healthcare, of church institutions in India. Whenever I met him, he would ask me about India."
India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeared to have reservations about the Congress support to the 'liberation struggle' against Kerala's first Communist ministry led by E M S Namboodiripad, which was dismissed in 1959 within two years of coming to power.
'My film talks about the eternal battle between Christ and Satan,' says director Vinod Pande.
Out of 67 fishermen, 49 are from Tamil Nadu, 13 from Kerala, four from Assam and one from Andhra Pradesh, they said.
'Religion must not and cannot be the basis for a survey,' says Father Babu Joseph, spokesman, Catholic Bishops Conference of India.
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