As a debate rages over growing intolerance in the country, former US President Barack Obama on December 1 disclosed that he had privately told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that India must not split on sectarian lines and that it must cherish the fact that Muslims here...
More than a billion dollars is being spent on giant statues of a nationa-list leader, a former king and a Hindu deity in three Indian states where pov-erty is widespread. All of the states involved are ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which uses jingo-ism...
Legislators and churches in Nagaland have agreed to lead and take the responsibility of a fair and honest electoral practice. The affirmation was made as part of a colloquium on Clean Election organised in Kohima on Nov 29 by the Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC)...
A bomb went off at the main gate of a Christian colony in the Pakistani city of Chaman on Dec. 2, killing a 7-year-old boy and two others, police said, the latest incident of violence in the restive south-western province of Baluchistan. “It was a hand grenade which...
At least a thousand people joined the funeral march for Father Marcelito Paez, a 72-year-old Catholic priest murdered on Dec. 4 on the main Philippine island of Luzon. The activist priest was ambushed four hours after facilitating the release of a political prisoner....
