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WhatsApp group’s Christmas gift helps Tripura tribals fight winter‍

Gaspar Delerock and his wife Shanti in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu donated blankets for the poor in Tripura, northeast, as part of celebrating their wedding’s silver jubilee. Ammu Urimainathan sent her contribution forgoing her Christmas dress and Joseph Raj from Pondicherry shared his

South Korea pardons disgraced ex-president Park Geun-hye

South Korea’s ex-president Park Geun-hye received a pardon today, cutting short a jail term of more than 20 years for corruption with her successor saying he granted it in the interest of national unity. Park became South Korea’s first female president in 2013, but less than four years later she was impeached and ousted after […]

Uproar over Pakistani bakeries’ boycott of Christmas cakes

Two popular bakeries in the Pakistani city of Karachi have caused uproar on social media after refusing to decorate cakes with Christmas greetings. The controversy began after Celestia Naseem Khan, a Kara-chi-based student, reported on social media that Delizia Bakery refused to write “Merry Christ-mas” on a cake she bought. “So I recently went to […]

India-Bangladesh ties are no more refugees of the past

The agony and ecstasy associated with the birth of Bangladesh in 1971 still hold the message that religion cannot bind a nation together for long. Sheikh Mujibar Rahman and his Mukti Bahini firmly believed that the Bengalis in the east were different from West Pakistanis and thus Pakistan was splintered and Bangladesh came into being. […]

Celebrating Christmas in Muslim-majority Pakistan

The international community fed by biased news tends to presume that all Muslim-majority nations ban any kind of celebrations, which is false. Only a few among the 50 or so Muslim majority countries in the world, among them the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Tajikistan, Brunei, Morocco and Afghanistan, disallow celebrations like Christmas. Speaking for […]

Catholics caution Philippine govt against Chinese aid

Catholics in Bacolod Diocese in the Visayas region have cautioned the Philippine government against accepting China’s aid to help victims of Super Typhoon Rai. Chinese ambassador Huang Xilian on December 22 offered US$1 million as cash aid and 4,725 tons of rice to the typhoon-hit Southeast Asian country. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte accepted the aid […]