Wed 07 February 2024: A right-wing Hindu group in Rajasthan’s Ajmer has claimed that Ajmer Dargah was actually a Hindu temple. Rajvardhan Singh Parmar, president of the Hindu right-wing ‘Maharana Pratap Sena’ in Ajmer said that Ajmer Dargah is a “sacred Hindu temple”. He also held a press conference recently, making similar claims. This comes […]
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Tue 06 February 2024: Kenya’s High Court in Malindi charged cult leader Paul Mackenzie on Tuesday with the murders of 191 children whose bodies were unearthed from the Shakahola forest. Survivors and victims’ families have said Paul Mackenzie urged followers to fast in order to “go see Jesus”. Mackenzie and 29 other defendants rejected the […]
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Police say two rocks were thrown through the window of this Mississauga mosque, and are calling it a hate crime. (NCCM/X) Fri 02 February 2024: Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called an attack on a mosque in the Canadian city of Mississauga “cowardly, disturbing, and unacceptable”. “Islamophobia has no place in any of our […]
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Sun 28 January 2024: More than 9,000 people are believed to have suffered sexual abuse in Germany’s Protestant churches and charities, a new study revealed on Thursday. The 871-page report of independent researchers found that incidents of sexualized violence and other forms of abuse were significantly higher than previously thought. According to the researchers, 9,355 […]
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Sat 27 January 2024: Pope Francis has defended his authorization for homosexual partnerships to be blessed but made clear the move is not meant as a recognition of gay marriage. His decision has caused a heated debate within the Catholic Church, with many traditionalists viewing homosexuality as a sin. “When a couple comes spontaneously to […]
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Tue 23 January 2024: Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have destroyed 1,000 mosques since Oct. 7, according to local authorities. “The reconstruction of these mosques will cost around $500 million,” Gaza’s Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs said in a statement. There are an estimated 1,200 mosques in the Gaza Strip. According to the […]
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Mon 22 January 2024: Pope Francis on Sunday called for the release of hostages, including six nuns, who were kidnapped on a bus in Haiti on Friday, and said he was praying for social harmony in the country. Armed gunmen hijacked a bus in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince with at least six nuns on board and […]
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Mon 15 January 2024: Pope Francis said Sunday that retirement remains an option open to all popes, but he is not contemplating it at present. “I am still alive,” Francis responded when asked how he was by TV host Fabio Fazio, who interviewed the pontiff for about an hour during his show on the commercial […]
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Sun 14 January 2024: Sexual, psychological and physical violence has taken place in several countries within the ultra-conservative Society of Saint Pius X, Swiss newspaper Le Temps reported Saturday after a months-long investigation into the breakaway Catholic group. The society “cannot escape accusations of control, sexual violence and a cult of secrecy”, the newspaper wrote, […]
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Fri 12 January 2024: The needless controversy surrounding the Tamil film Annapoorani, which was removed by Netflix, could have been avoided had the ‘upper’ caste people outraged over a dialogue actually read the very text they were seeking to defend. Another needless controversy over culture and food, provoked, as usual, by Hindutva hot-heads has broken […]
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