Bangalore, Feb 2 (PTI) In the backdrop of the JusticeSomashekhar Commission Report, noted Kannada writer MChidanandmurthy today called for introduction of a bill tocurb “religious conversion by fundamentalists” during thecoming session of the state legislature. Opposing conversions that took place by offering monetaryinducements, he alleged that it was often vulnerable sectionsof people that had been… Read More »
MUMBAI: When Winnie D’Souza wanted to marry her daughter into a ‘decent’ family, she scanned the matrimonial columns of Catholic periodicals in Panaji. After shortlisting a few young men, D’Souza made inquiries about their caste. She wanted her daughter to marry a Brahmin. Most Catholic publications do not list caste categories as they did… Read More »
The Rev. Sydney Knight has suggested that relations between the Buddhists and Christians is now very amicable and everything is fine between them. This could be contested. Let us look at one very important inter face between the two religions ? Christian conversion of Buddhists. Patrick Johnstone stated that Sri Lanka is the only non-Muslim… Read More »
North-East India is a term that usually refers to the seven states of Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. Sikkim and the Darjeeling district of West Bengal belong to it geographically but are not normally included though often associated with the North East India Christian Council. With the exception of the two… Read More »
MOSBACH, GERMANY (ANS) — OM Ships International has purchased the Norrona I from Smyril Line at a cost of 3.6 million Euros. The ship will be renamed LOGOS HOPE, and is expected to begin active service during 2005. (Pictured: New ship “LOGOS HOPE”). Humanly speaking, it seemed impossible for OM Ships International, a non-profit Christian… Read More »
On the eve of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s maiden visit to Tripura, the NLFT militants today gunned down two Tripura State Rifles (TSR) jawans and shot at another at Champahaur in west Tripura. The ultras also decamped with one AK series rifle and a large cache of ammunition from the slain jawans. A senior… Read More »
Recently a Baptist publication printed the following after being swindled by many Asian converts who they have attempted to “buy”: THE DANGER OF SUPPORTING NATIONAL PREACHERS. To channel a lot of funds to a national preacher in that part of the world is a serious mistake. Those people are incredibly poor, and an amount… Read More »
Police have arrested a well-known Asheville church choir director on charges he had sex with two children. Leonard Jerome Smith, 53, of Blanton Street, Asheville is charged with felony statutory rape of a child older than 6 and felony first-degree child sex offense. The acts are alleged to have occurred with two separate children in… Read More »
Mixing commerce with philanthropy, former Australian skipper Steve Waugh is now on the look out for a business partner from India in between his efforts to relieve the sufferings of the thousands of tsunami victims in the Andamans. Waugh, on a tour of the country for the last few days, has already met the chief… Read More »
The Supreme Court should have issued notice to all parties involved in the Graham Staines case before excising portions from its verdict dealing with conversion. The Supreme Court shocked the Hindu community when on January 25 it succumbed to pressure from Christian activists and modified its January 21 judgement in the Graham Staines murder… Read More »