Johnnie Langendorff pursued the heavily armed gunman in a high-speed car chase after the deadly attack, preventing more casualties.
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.
Muhammad Yunus urged the people to "exercise patience" before judging his government's role.
At least 15 persons were killed and 80 others injured when Taliban suicide attackers targeted two packed churches during mass on Sunday in Pakistan's biggest Christian neighbourhood in Lahore, the capital of Punjab.
Unanimously rejecting the Somasekhara report, absolving Bharatiya Janata Party and Sangh Parivar from the attacks on churches and prayer halls in several places in Karnataka in 2008, the Christian community in the state on Saturday demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the strikes.
Mahatma Gandhi has been baptised in proxy by a United States church, drawing sharp reaction from his grandson and others.
There is nothing to be worried about as bilateral ties are robust with solid foundations. Both are on the same page on the economic and defence/security ties bilaterally and globally and that shall continue irrespective of change in political dispensation in either country, points out Dr Rajaram Panda.
Forensic experts and homicide detectives in Kenya has a difficult task on their hands, to rescue people who themselves choose to starve to go to heaven.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has asserted that the recent attacks on churches and rape of a nun were not political or communal issues but law and order problems.
At least 28 people were killed on Sunday in two powerful blasts that targeted churches in Nigeria during the Christmas services, amid a series of attacks by a radical Islamic sect in the country's north that claimed nearly 70 lives.
'Politicians can do symbolism by changing the names of places and museums.' 'Judges need not be seen to be craving for approval from the public.'
"PM is deeply concerned about the incidents in Hisar, Haryana and Nadia, West Bengal," the PMO tweeted.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met the top priests of various churches in Kerala, giving a push to the Bharatiya Janata Party's efforts to reach out to the influential minority community in the southern state ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, sources said.
A woman was confirmed dead and another injured in an explosion triggered by an Improvised Explosive Device on Sunday night in front of a popular restaurant on a busy road in the heart of Bengaluru.
Recent attacks on religious places led to a verbal clash in Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
She is also the first ever Indian American to be nominated as presidential candidate of either the Republican or the Democratic party.
The committee, which was set up almost two years back following a spate of attacks on churches particularly in the Mangalore belt, has said that there is no merit in the allegations made against the BJP and the Sangh Parivar.
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'.
The gang indulged in loot at the church, located near Karimpur-Chapra highway along the India-Bangladesh border.
The team comprising Special Secretary (Internal Security) M L Kumawat and Union Home Ministry Joint Secretary A K Yadav, who were in Karnataka for a day, visited the Kulashekhara and Milagres churches and also the Father Muller's institution at Mangalore.
Seven persons, including two pastors, received minor injuries and two vehicles were set ablaze by the motorcycle-borne attackers, who also ransacked furniture in some places, Western range DIG A M Prasad said. Prasad said nine churches belonging to Pentecoastal and Catholic faiths were the target of attacks in Dakshina Kannada district and three each in Udupi and Chikmagalur district.
Delhi high court on Wednesday sought response of the Centre on a PIL seeking protection of religious rights of Christians and an SIT probe into the recent attacks on churches in the national capital.
A church elder who allegedly sent offensive SMS to Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla after the declaration of the Assembly elections results has been arrested.
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The establishment -- Vice-Global Tapas Bar -- against which the action was being taken, is located in Juhu suburb.
Amid the proposed mass conversion ceremony by leaders of an Aligarh-based outfit here on December 25, the Christian community has sought for additional security for their churches in the city.
This Sunday morning the American President will find himself in Mumbai. Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel visits the Mumbai churches where America's leader and First Lady can pray.
Kamala Harris' husband Douglas Emhoff shared his love story and recalled how he met his wife on a blind date in 2013 and left an awkward voice message for her which she plays for him every year on their wedding anniversary.
Spanish soccer boss' mother taken to hospital after hunger strike
Wayanad will continue to support Rahul but not to the same extent as in 2019, when his margin of victory had been enormous. Articulate, to the point and speaking in fluent Malayalam, CPI's Annie Raja, had the people who gathered to see her, listening in rapt attention, notes Shyam G Menon.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said he has directed the police to arrest within 48 hours the culprits who hurled stones at a catholic church in Navi Mumbai on Saturday.
It's the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history -- and the fifth deadliest in modern US history.
The Irish Roman Catholic Church has strongly condemned legislation to liberalise abortion, saying that the move is 'licence the direct and intentional killing of the innocent baby'.
An FIR was filed on Tuesday against ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MP S Gnanathiraviam and several others in connection with an assault on a pastor in Thirunelveli, the police said.
The governor was on her way to visit two relief camps at ECA Church Songgel and ECA Church Tuibong in the district where hundreds of Kukis have taken refuge since the ethnic strife broke out in the state on May 3, 2023, the police added.
'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.'
Active citizenship through peaceful protest is a powerful tool, says Merril Diniz, who was part of a peaceful march that was struck down by police and CRPF personnel, while protesting against church attacks in Delhi.
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