New Delhi, Nov 27: The government today said the proposal to provide reservation to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes who have converted to Christianity and Islam is being considered by the National Commission of Linguistic and Religious Minorities.
"Reservation to converts to religions like B

New Delhi, November 18, 2006 (All India Christian Council): Nine tribal Christian homes belonging four villages in Kokrajhar district of Assam have been evicted by some members belong to Bodo Religious Bathou (an indigenous Bodo tribal religion) on November 14, 2006.
According to the sources reachi

Banglore: November 18, 2006. Angered by the disappearance of three girl students from a private Christian school in Chandra Layout police station limits, in Bangalore a group of Hindu radicals ransacked the school principal`s chamber on Friday.
The police said that as the girls, who had gone mis

India: November 17, 2006. Chennai High Court has ruled that Christian Dalits are not entitled to the special benefits provided under the Indian Constitution for so-called "Scheduled Castes".
AsiaNews reports that the court made the ruling in a case concerning a Dalit born to Hindu parents who had c

ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal on Thursday announced that it would implement its decision of resigning from the National Assembly in protest against the passage of the Protection of Women's Rights Bill during a parliamentary party meeting on December 6 and 7. The MMA has 66 lawmakers

KYZYL-ORDA, KAZAKHSTAN (ANS) -- South Korean pastor Kim U Sob, who has led the Love Presbyterian Church in the southern Kazakh town of Kyzyl-Orda [Qyzylorda] for the past eight years, has been forced to leave the country, Aleksandr Klyushev of the Association of Religious Communities of Kazakhstan t

The city of Poso, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, has been a focus of sectarian violence since the end of 1998. Between 1999 and 2002, 1,000 people were killed, in part of a wider conflict - the Moluccan War - which killed 9,000 people in the same period. Most of the violence then was mounted by Islami

New Delhi: November 5, 2006. Amit Kumar Raul, a Dalit Christian, has been arrested in Orissa on October 26, 2006, under G. Udayagiri police station with charges of selling "Oh You Hindu Awake" written by R. K. Chetterjee, published by Dalit Forum Journal, Kolkotta.
Sources told the All India Chris

India: November 5, 2006. Global Council of Indian Christians(GCIC) thanks all prayer warriors for their prayers for Our coordinator Brother Asit Mohanti`s most difficult mission of securing bail for the Innocent Christian brothers falsely implicated by the Orissa police.
At last, after much str

Kasur: The Canadian High Commissioner Mr. Stuart Hughes said that "I wish to congratulate Mr. Jumshad Pirzada who is doing the charity work for the disabled persons of this country"
The Canadian High Commissioner Mr. Stuart Hughes was talking to the program for the disabled persons on the 23rd of

Hyderabad: October 27, 2006. The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Dr. Y. S. Rajshekar Reddy inaugurated Transform World: India 2006 on October 24, 2006 at Hyderabad. Over 800 dignitaries from 40 nations are participating in a 4 day conference from 24 October to 28 October. Transform World is hosted

The prince, 57, has always taken a keen interest in other religions and in 1994 he told his biographer that he wanted to be known as "Defender of Faith" rather than "Defender of the Faith", a report by an evangelical group to be published Monday has said.
But the Evangelical Alliance, a charitable

KARBALA, Pakistan -- A steady flow of bodies being returned to Pakistan has prompted tribal elders to appeal to intelligence agencies and religious leaders to stop sending young men to fight coalition forces in Afghanistan.
"We have made it known to the military intelligence and the mullahs that w

New Delhi: October 22, 2006. All India Muslim Women`s personal Law Board has termed the stand of Mr. Kamal Farouqee of Muslim Personal Law Board on the fate of rape victim Imrana highly deplorable as unjust, unfair, insensitive and brutal. In a press release issued here today Broad`s Founder Secreta

Karachi: The Sindh High Court here on Monday, 16th October 2006 issued notices in an application under section 12 (2) CPC, bearing J. M. No. 37 of 2006, seeking annulment of the orders of the Sindh High Court dated 13 th February 2002, regarding the election and appointment of Bishop of Karachi Dioc