UK: october 21, 2006. A 7ft 2ins Pakistani woman is to live in Britain on benefits after claiming asylum because she is `too tall` to return home.

Zainab Bibi, 33, claims she faces constant persecution and ridicule in her own country over her height. She has lodged an asylum claim with the Home

Banglore: October 15, 2006. Lourd Matha , Pasan Prawsad Ashramam, a destitute home, in Thyagarathi village near sagar was sealed by the Sagar police and arrested the visitors and organizers of the destitute home. The visitors and office bearers are arrested and detained in the Sagar Police sta

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladeshis hailed their nation`s Nobel Peace Prize winner on Friday, "banker to the poor" Muhammad Yunus who launched his microcredit system from one of the world`s most poverty-stricken countries.
Hundreds of friends and admirers gathered at his Dhaka residence with flowers an

NAGPUR – Oct. 14, 2006. Following the footsteps of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and thousands of Dalit pilgrims, the All India Christian Council (aicc) and 25 international visitors paid their respects to Ambedkar during a visit to Deekshabhoomi, the site of the original 1956 Dalit emancipation movement bein

The hijab: Non-Muslim girls attending an Islamic school will have no choice but to wear headscarves
Female students at a new Islamic school will be made to wear head scarves regardless of their religion, it was revealed yesterday.
The Madani High School in Leicester will be required by law to acce

A devout Muslim woman was attacked and stabbed to death, allegedly by her husband, after their 17-year-old daughter announced she was embracing Christianity, according to police and news reports.
Officials say Dr. Muhammad Hussain, 48, remained in critical condition in the Gold Coast Hospital with

Auckland: October 11,2006. An Iranian-born Catholic convert imprisoned in New Zealand after his application for asylum was rejected faces indefinite detention over his refusal to apply for a new passport that would enable authorities to deport him to Iran where the law punishes conversion with death

More than a decade after the Government of Karnataka accorded Dalit Christians the status of backward classes under category one, the community remains deprived of education, employment and political representation, thanks to the non-implementation of the government orders issued in both 1994 and 19

The attack on Christians in India has not come down even after Congress led Government has come in Centre. Everyday, we have been informed about the attacks from every corner of India. Most of the attacks are from Sangh Parivar, mostly in BJP rule states.
Imposing anti conversion bill is one of th

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (ANS) -- Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the sixth most populous country in the world and the second most populous Muslim country, now has its own Christian television channel.

Called Jesus Christ Television (JCTV), it is based in Lahore and run by Pasto

AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai has urged the world to put an end to Islamic schools that teach hatred and produce suicide bombers.
Madrassas, or Islamic schools, are "teaching hatred rather than religion, (teaching) that some people we must hate, that some people we must destroy," Mr Karzai said on

New Delhi: September 29, 2006. Global Council of India Christians (GCIC) is delighted at the award of the Right Livelihood Award to our close associate, Dr. Ruth Manorama. We join the international community in congratulating her on this great milestone in her long and illustrious career as a soci

New York: September 29, 2006. European nations find difficulty integrating their Moslem populations into their broader societies. The United States finds it far easier to do so. This is no accident. Europeans are prepared to accept Moslems and Islam only on European terms. Yet, they persistently re

In contrast to the tropical and exotic images of Goa as a popular beach resort and refuse for many First World tourists in search of spiritual escape, Lino Leitão takes the reader on a what he views "a fictional" journey about the everyday struggles of the Goan people under colonial Portuguese and

AUSTRALIA (ANS) -- In 1979 Pakistan`s military dictator Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq launched his program to Islamise Pakistan. The first step was the introduction of Hudood Ordinance.
In 1984, as pressure intensified for an end military rule, Zia played the religion card for political gain to dragnet Musl