Two churches were attacked and the statue of Mother Mary was damaged on Monday in Mysore and in Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka.
In a nail-biting finish, Conservative candidate Don Stewart won the Liberal stronghold of Toronto-St. Paul's by defeating Liberal Party's Leslie Church by 590 votes.
A Bishop on Saturday became the first Church of England priest to openly declare that he is gay and in a long-term relationship with a man.
Hasina said she left Bangladesh in August with an aim to stop the violence. However, the situation has deteriorated further, she said.
A church in west Delhi's Vikaspuri area was vandalised by unknown miscreants early on Wednesday morning.
Six persons allegedly involved in vandalising a cathedral premises and a Catholic school, where people had gathered for a religious convention, were arrested in the wee hours on Monday.
Rediff.com presents some amazing pictures of the rock churches in Lalibela, which will take you back to medieval times.
The Bethel Memorial Church has been the target of a terrorist attack in the past.
Four fresh cases of attacks on churches, including three in Bengaluru, were reported in Karnataka since Saturday night even as security was scaled up toensure trouble-free Sunday prayers, two days after the Centre asked the state government to rein in communal forces.
'The response from the police was disgusting -- they acted as the arm of the Khalistanis -- they attacked the Hindus, they did not push the Khalistanis off. They attacked the Hindus in their own mandir'
Members of the Bajrang Dal chanting 'Jai Sri Ram' charged into the church. They attacked woman, ripped their clothes off and also thrashed infants.
The mother of the Suryanelli gang-rape victim on Friday alleged that her family members had been restrained from attending the church by the Vicar of their parish in view of recent developments in the 1996 case.
Lebanon is grappling with widespread devastation following Israeli airstrikes. The attacks have caused significant damage to infrastructure and civilian areas, displacing hundreds of Lebanese citizens.
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A substantial part of a catholic church in northeast Delhi's Tahirpur area was gutted when a fire broke out at its premises on Monday morning with the Christian community suspecting foul play in the incident.
Two powerful blasts triggered by Islamic State in two churches packed with worshippers celebrating Palm Sunday in Egypt's Tanta and Alexandria cities.
In fresh incidents of attacks on Christian places of worship in Karnataka, some unidentified persons burnt religious books belonging to a church in Ujire and also damaged furniture at a church in Chikamagalur district and statue of Mother Mary at Kolar. According to authorities of the St George Church in Ujire, a group of miscreants destroyed the Holy Bible, prayer books, statues and icons in the church and poured kerosene over the carpet.
Even as Karnataka returns to normalcy, a fire at a Church on the outskirts of Bangalore has raised quite a storm. While the police maintain that the fire at the St Anthony's Church at Yadavanahalli under Attibele police station was just an accident, the Church authorities take an opposing stance.
Unidentified attackers pelted stones and broke its windowpane.
Two unidentified men armed with sharp-edged weapons barged into a church in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district and allegedly set ablaze a Bible.
A number of sacred items were damaged at St Alphonsa's Church.
Kerala Catholic Bishop Conference president Archbishop Soosa Paikam said the verdict was "painful" and would have disastrous consequences.
Saji Abraham, clergyman of St Thomas Orthodox Church in Rajasthan's Banswara district, suffered head injuries in the attack, which took place when he was preparing for Christmas celebrations.
They met with a warm embrace at the Outreach session of the G7 Summit in Apulia, southern Italy where they joined other world leaders to deliberate on the topic of Artificial Intelligence, Energy, Africa and the Mediterranean.
The synod of Syro-Malabar Church has alleged that scores of women from Christian community from Kerala were being lured into the trap of Islamic State and used in terror activities. The VHP welcomed the Church statement.
The priest joined the BJP at a time when the catholic church had been attacking the party over the Manipur violence.
A religious row has erupted among Christian leaders, with conservative priests moving to split the worldwide Anglican Communion over liberal attitude towards homosexuals.
Iraq's National Security Advisor Mowaffak al-Rubaie said the bombings bore the hallmarks of insurgent leader and Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
As Christians took to streets of Delhi over recent attacks on churches, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday promised to step up security at their religious places amid his assertion that any discrimination on the basis of religion will not be tolerated.
Religious sentiments are simmering God's own country Kerala. The Episcopal churches and the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam of the backward Ezhava community in the state are crying foul, claiming that the new generation Pentecostal churches are poaching their believers.
Bangalore police have arrested a man who is allegedly responsible for vandalising several churches in Bangalore and Tamil Nadu in the last five years.
Haryana Police on Tuesday arrested the main accused in the alleged vandalisation of an under-construction church in a village in Hisar district and was questioning few more suspects in the case.
An under-construction church in Kaimri village near Hisar was vandalised by a group and the cross replaced with an idol of Hanuman, triggering tension in the area in Haryana.
Police arrested three persons who had allegedly vandalised a church in order to fulfil a bet they had agreed upon after having a few drinks in the wee hours of Wednesday in west Delhi's Vikaspuri area.
In Mangalore, some unidentified persons damaged a glass pane surrounding a statue of Infant Jesus located outside the compound of a church on the Bantwal-Poonjalkatte Road at Moorje.In Bangalore rural, some unidentified persons pelted stones at a church at Manchanhalli around 14 kms from Chikkaballapur and damaged its window panes.
The specter of how the Munambam issue was exploited during the November by-elections is proof of the price Kerala is paying for its emergent politics. Controversies become the stuff of slow-burn and brinkmanship. The former promises mileage; the latter searches for an advantage, notes Shyam G Menon.
