Australian Saint

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  Once An Atheist, "Australian Baba" Attends His 10th Kumbh Mela

  When he attended the world's largest religious festival, Kumbh Mela, in 1998, he was a tourist from Australia. Now, he is a famous saint who lives in a kutir (hut) and is part of one of the biggest groups of saints in India.

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  Valentine's Day Scam Alert Issued In Australia

  Love may be in the air on February 14 but Saint Valentine's Day is also peak time for scamming lonely hearts for money, an Australian government body warned on Monday.

• Abandoned Baby's Surrogate Mother a 'Saint': Official

  The surrogate mother of a baby reportedly abandoned by his Australian parents in Thailand because he has Down Syndrome was a "saint" and "absolute hero", Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said Monday.

• Henna tattooing, Indian flavour at Australian festival

  The Saint Kilda festival in Melbourne is one of the oldest and southern hemisphere's largest street festival. It is a celebration of summer against the spectacular natural beauty of the Saint Kilda foreshore.

• Pope canonises first Australian saint and 5 more

  Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed Australia's first saint on Sunday, canonizing a 19th-century nun and also declaring five other saints in an open-air Mass attended by tens of thousands.Chants of "Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi Oi Oi!" echoed throughout St. Peter's Square as a raucous crowd of flag-and-balloon-carrying Australians used a traditional sports ch...

• Australian nun to become nation's first saint

  An Australian nun who died 100 years ago is on the way to becoming the nation's first saint, Catholic officials said on Sunday.