Netherlands to ban face-covering burqa
DUTCH prime minister Mark Rutte has said that his government has drawn up a legislation to ban face-covering veils worn by some Muslim women.
Turkey allows first new Christian church since 1923
THERE are currently approximately 100,000 Christians in Turkey, which has an almost exclusively Muslim population of 80 million.
Indian origin woman ordered gangster friends to kill TV exec
THE woman, a medical student, identified as Mundil Mahil, 20, enlisted two men to take revenge on Gagandip Singh, 21, after he attempted to rape her.
Islamic Sharia law comes to Great Britain
STONING for adultery. Amputations for theft. Death for apostates. And second-class status for Christians and Jews. This is life under Sharia law, the Islamic system practiced in countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Great Britain.
BBC’s Religion head says channel’s ‘too Christian’
BBC director general Lord Hall has been handed Mr Ahmed's dossier and is believed to be mulling over the suggestions.
British Muslim population could double in 20 years
PEW Research Center researchers have made projections that the world’s Muslim population could increase by about 35 per cent over the next two decades.
Irish parliament denies Hindu priest’s opening prayer plea
The request for the prayer came from Rajan Zed, a Hindu priest and president of the Universal Society of Hinduism.
Pope Benedict laid to rest
Pope Francis presided over his funeral with the Gospel reading for his homily taken from Luke 23:46, "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit."
Pope Francis tells gay man God made him like that
The Pope's words would amount to a significant departure from the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, which considers homosexuality "objectively disordered" and contrary to God's law.
As Titanic sank, he pleaded, ‘believe in the Lord Jesus!’
WHEN pastor and preacher John Harper and six year old daughter boarded the Titanic it was for the privilege of preaching at one of the greatest churches in America, Moody Church in Chicago, named for its famous founder Dwight L. Moody.
The happiness of suffering
Suffering for our own mistakes tends to be a source of shame. But to suffer for the sake of righteousness (because we are followers of Jesus) is a cause for joy in the Lord.
Have faith in God: Smith Wigglesworth
It is grand to see people believe God. God knew all about this leg and that it was broken in two places. I said to the woman, "When I pray, something will happen." Her husband was sitting there; he had been in his chair for four years and could not walk a step.
Churches petition Murmu to save Christians in Manipur
An estimated 35,000 Meitei Christians face “total cleansing and obliteration" in all the valley districts of the hilly state, according to their memorandum submitted to Murmu on June 26.
