The government and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) blamed each other for the killing at St. Mary`s church in Batticaloa, 303 kilometres (190 miles) east of Colombo, before a packed Christmas congregation.
President Mahinda Rajapakse`s government condemned the assassination and sai

UPI. Indonesian police are on high alert for bomb attacks by Islamic extremists during the Christmas holidays, Jakarta`s police chief said Friday.
Police Chief Firman Gani said extremists may be plotting revenge attacks using fresh tactics after police killed terrorist leader Azahari Husin last mo

Dozens of Chinese Roman Catholic priests and nuns who have been barricaded for a week inside a building they claim they own promised not to move yesterday despite being beaten up during a protest over the property dispute.
The attack on the members of the official Chinese Catholic Church in the cit

who can stop all human abuses, miseries from wars imposed on human race by Devil and their spiritual sickness. Who is the only Way to Peace, has been "side lined" and people are trying to find Peace with those who even do not know what actual Peace is. The thirst for "Peace" by "Peace mongers" is "D

KARACHI: God's People Fellowship of Pakistan, a Christian organization, urged the government of Pakistan on Thursday to recognise Israel so that 10 million Christians of the country could visit the Jewish state to perform their religious obligations.
Speaking at a news conference here, Ashraf P. B

New York. President Bush is trying to remake the Mideast by going to war. New Yorker Jack Rosen is doing it by going to dinner.
Pakistan`s recent remarkable warming toward Israel and Jews is due partly to an unlikely personal relationship between Rosen, the head of the American Jewish Congress, and

2005 unarmed protesters attempted to enter the Hong Kong Convention Centre, where the WTO ministerial conference is being held. The response of the police was to use pepper spray and tear gas on the protesters. Due to this excessive reaction, it was reported that some protesters removed some wooden

The CSW leader Ben Roger writes " Pakistan saw the worst outbreak of anti-Christian violence since gunmen attacked a church on Christmas Day, 2002. Three churches, a school, a convent and many Christian homes were attacked on November 12 in Sangla Hill. Christian families were forced to flee the are

The activists of GPFP, famous as Christian friends of Israel in Pakistan were chanting the slogans to recognize the state of Israel, the protester who were holding banners / play cards upon which was written " recognized the state of Israel" allow us to visit the holy Bible land of Israel, if we are

The sacrilege of places of worship of religious minorities is done by the mobs without impunity due to backing of myopic Muslim religious leaders, who are always lying in wait to swell the scary list of injustices against the religious minorities under one pretext or another.
The recent incident o

Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the president of the Italian Bishops Conference, said: "In addition to the problems that any couple encounters when forming a family, Catholics and Muslims have to reckon with the difficulties that inevitably arise from deep cultural differences."
Cardinal Ruini, one of the

In a further sign of the split between African and Western Anglicans over homosexuality, the Anglican Church of Central Africa said Nicholas Henderson`s prior association with a pro-gay church group "made him unsuitable for confirmation."
The statement followed a special church court of confirmatio

and case filed against them at the Panvel police station. The incident took place at 7 pm on Saturday 26 November. Three Malayalees- Biju Jacob, Reji Paul, and Shaji Samuel who are members of the Panvel Brethren Church were distributing Bible and Gospel tracts at a street behind the ST Bus Stand in

ISLAMABAD: November 28. (NNI) Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has said that all religions in the world preach peace, fraternity and justice and that mutual understanding and tolerance among all religions and their followers in general and Islam and Christianity, in particular, was the nee

ISLAMABAD, Nov 28: Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has said he has been assured by the government of Pakistan that the blasphemy law will be reviewed to minimise the possibility of its misuse against minorities The archbishop, who met President General Pervez Musharraf, Prime Minister Sha