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.
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.
'They are attacking my wife; they are attacking our 13-month-old daughter. They are saying that I do drugs.' 'I'm giving an open challenge to Mr Nawab Malik and Ms Sana Malik let's go to the labs and let's do the medical test of our family and your family.'
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Two powerful blasts triggered by Islamic State in two churches packed with worshippers celebrating Palm Sunday in Egypt's Tanta and Alexandria cities.
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.
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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.
Kerala Catholic Bishop Conference president Archbishop Soosa Paikam said the verdict was "painful" and would have disastrous consequences.
Unidentified attackers pelted stones and broke its windowpane.
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.
Two unidentified men armed with sharp-edged weapons barged into a church in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district and allegedly set ablaze a Bible.
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.
A number of sacred items were damaged at St Alphonsa's Church.
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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.
Union Minister Suresh Gopi on Wednesday described former PM Indira Gandhi as the 'mother of India' and late Congress Chief Minister K Karunakaran as a 'courageous administrator'.
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.
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A religious row has erupted among Christian leaders, with conservative priests moving to split the worldwide Anglican Communion over liberal attitude towards homosexuals.
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.
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.
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.
They realised that the Portuguese were better prepared to defend Daman than Dadra and Nagar Haveli. If reinforcements from Daman were to reach Silvassa, there was no chance of defeating the Portuguese. They decided that cutting Daman's communication lines would have to be their top priority before attacking Silvassa. A fascinating excerpt from Neelesh Kulkarni's new book, Uprising-The Liberation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
The establishment -- Vice-Global Tapas Bar -- against which the action was being taken, is located in Juhu suburb.
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.
The second attacker has been identified as 19-year-old Abdel Malik Petitjean.
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 control of the Church over Christian people regarding politics has become weak...' 'People have started to think independently and it is not for sure that they will obey whatever the Church asks them to do.'
Over 300 priests of the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Church on Friday said they cannot accept the warning issued by the papal representative to celebrate Holy Mass in a uniform manner as prescribed by the synod or face consequences -- as it goes against their conscience.
The Catholic Church in Kerala has taken serious objections to the new Social Science textbook for the 10th standard, prepared during the previous Left Democratic Front's rule, alleging that it contained "grossly baseless anti-church contents" and "propagated Marxist political ideology". The newly installed United Democratic Front government recently set up a three-member committee headed by former chief secretary Dr D Babu Paul to examine the controversial textbook.
Dr Thomas Mar Makarios, metropolitan of the Canada, Britain and Europe Diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, died on February 23 at Newcastle General Hospital, London. Dr Mar Makarios, 82, was seriously injured in a car accident on January 5 and remained on life support system thereafter.
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