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NEW DELHI: A group of 275 former judges, bureaucrats, diplomats and armed forces veterans has raised objections to a recent report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), calling it “disturbing” and lacking balance.In a joint statement dated March 21, the signatories questioned the methodology and conclusions of the USCIRF report, arguing…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only. (AI Image) BHOPAL: Acting on complaints filed by two women—a 21-year-old from Chhattisgarh and a 30-year-old Bhopal-based woman—Bag Sewania police on Sunday registered two separate FIRs on charges of rape and forced religious conversion against around half a dozen accused, including two women who are sisters, under relevant sections…
NEW DELHI: A 9-judge bench of Supreme Court will hear the pleas relating to discrimination against women at religious places, including Kerala‘s Sabarimala Temple.The hearing is set to begin April 7 and proposed to be concluded on April 22. The composition of the 9-judge bench will be notified by the Chief Justice of India separately…
A congregant of the Re’ese Adbarat Debre Selam Kidist Mariam Church, an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo church, stands during a service, in Washington, D.C., April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski, File) Singapore has been named the world’s most religiously diverse country in a sweeping study of 201 nations, reflecting how evenly its population is spread across…
Remo D’Souza and his wife Lizelle recently spoke about faith, spirituality and conversion, sharing how their beliefs have evolved beyond the limits of a single religion. During a conversation on Nayandeep Rakshit’s YouTube channel, the couple addressed questions around Remo’s decision to convert to Christianity and how his family responded to it.Remo, born Ramesh Gopi…
Most of you must have been in Goa, but what stayed with you beyond the trip? Beaches, shacks, and parties will likely be the top answers. Now, if all goes as planned, Goa will also have ‘ghat aarti’ like other iconic religious places in India, which will give a push to religious tourism. As PTI…
China on Monday criticised the Grammy Award conferred on the Dalai Lama, stating that it “firmly opposes” the Tibetan spiritual leader using the international recognition to carry out what it described as “anti-China activities.”The reaction came after the Dalai Lama (also known as Tenzin Gyatso) won his first Grammy Award in the Best Audio Book,…
Controversy brews as a formal complaint has been lodged against actor Ranveer Singh for allegedly ridiculing the sacred Daiva tradition of the ‘Kantara’ film during his appearance at IFFI Goa. Advocate Prashanth Methal asserts that Singh’s impersonation and description of a deity as a ‘female ghost’ has deeply offended religious sentiments. Ranveer Singh mimicking Rishab…
The alleged mastermind of a gym-based religious conversion and blackmail racket in Mirzapur, Imran Khan (38), was arrested by the immigration department at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. LUCKNOW: The alleged mastermind of a gym-based religious conversion and blackmail racket in Mirzapur, Imran Khan (38), was arrested by the immigration department at Indira…
SRINAGAR: Former J&K chief minister and PDP Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday denounced what she called “profiling of mosques” by police, saying it amounted to interference in religious affairs and was an attempt to humiliate Kashmiri Muslims. It’s Hindu temples that needed to be “profiled”, she said.“If religious places are to be profiled, then start with…
