The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams has said that we need to feel the same hunger for justice that ended the slave trade if the world is to be changed for the better. Speaking in his New Year message, broadcast on BBC Television in the UK on New Year's Eve and repeated on New Year's Day,

MANILA (Reuters) - Filipinos woke up to a thick smog shrouding Manila on Monday after a raucous New Year revelry of street parties, firecrackers and firing of guns that resulted in 624 injuries across the country.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque said injuries during the New Year celebrations were

Marking World Peace Day, he referred to "the scene of the shepherds of Bethlehem visiting Jesus in the manger," asking: "How can you not look again at the dire situation that characterizes this land where Jesus was born?"
The 79-year-old pontiff asked: "How can you not implore with insistent prayer

The incident took place on Sunday night in Jalampur area of Dhamtari town, 80 km south of capital Raipur.
"The missionaries were caught bribing poor Hindus in a slum colony to convert to Christianity," Bharat Singh, the police superintendent Dhamtari district, said over telephone. "They were promis

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) found Father Athanase Seromba guilty on two of four counts he faced in connection with the genocide in which some 800,000 people, mainly minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus, died.
"The chamber finds you guilty of genocide and extermination and se

DHARAMSALA, INDIA (ANS) --- Police in India have launched a murder investigation after the body of 23-year-old Michael Blakey, was discovered in a Gully near to the St John's Church in the Wilderness, Dharamsala in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh where he worshipped.
He disappeared on Novemb

by Muslim youth of East Preston Islamic College. Rev. Dr. Major (Retired) Timotheus Nasir, the Bishop of Siloam Biblical Christian Churches of Pakistan has condemned this heinous crime by the Muslim youth in strongest words and has demanded an apology from the entire Muslim world and the Muslim Head

The explosive incident has forced the East Preston Islamic College to call in a senior imam to tell its 650 Muslim students that the Bible and Christianity must be respected.
Anxious teachers at the school have also petitioned principal Shaheem Doutie, expressing "grave concern" about an "inculcat

While New Delhi and Islamabad have made little public progress on settling their dispute over Kashmir, officials on both sides privately say advances have been made in so-called "back channel" negotiations, most of them between retired officials.
Musharraf`s remarks on Tuesday provided a snapshot o

November 28. (Compass Direct News) – In a case that has drawn crowds of religious fanatics, a Pakistani court sentenced two Christian men to 10 years in prison on Saturday (November 25) for committing "blasphemy" against the Quran.
After postponing the verdict for four consecutive days, Judge Mu

"Love and peace be with you," the pope said in Turkish at the start of the ceremony at the modest hill-top shrine outside the ancient city of Ephesus and about 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of the Aegean port of Izmir on Wednesday.
On a warm, sunny day, dozens of those among the hand-picked crowd

Baramulla: November 27, 2006. Bashir Tantray, a prominent Christian worker and GCIC Coordinator in Kashmir, was killed on 21st November 2006 in his hometown of Mamoosa in Baramulla District at 10:30 am, at a bus stop in front of his parent`s home. He received three bullets in a daring daylight ki

The crowds booed - and shouted slogans such as "Don`t come Pope" - as pictures of Benedict XVI were shown on a giant screen in a square in the city suburbs.
The Pope sparked outrage across the Muslim world in September, when he quoted a 14th-Century Christian emperor who criticised the Prophet Muh

Mr. Abdul belonged to Pakistan from Qadiyani Community. He applied asylum in German in 1992-1993, which was rejected by German Government and then he came to Holland. He did not told any one about German asylum application because he was afraid of SHINGEN law.
According to Shingen law if you ask as

ISLAMABAD, Nov 18 (APP): Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Saturday said Women Protection Bill was the first step towards women emancipation, empowerment and protection of their rights and the government has started work on another piece of legislation to ensure their rights.
Addressing a gathering of s