Christian Missionaries

The body of a 17-year-old Dalit girl was found hanging from a ceiling fan of a skilling centre, run by a Christian missionary trust in UP's Badohi, police said on Monday.

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have arrested at least 18 staff of an international NGO, including an American woman, accusing them of carrying out Christian missionary work, the country's leaders said Saturday.

The finance minister of the devolved Scottish government, who spent some of her formative years in India where her parents worked as Christian missionaries, on Monday threw her hat in the ring to be elected Scotland's First Minister.

The family of a Christian priest in Kerala is mourning the demise of three of their friends who died in the plane crash in Nepal while returning home after attending the missionary's funeral at Anikadu near Pathanamthitta on Friday.

An important witness in the alleged conversion incident here told the police on Monday that people associated with a Christian missionary were offering to bear the costs of her marriage as well as giving her gifts to tempt her to convert.

The Jathedar's remarks came days after the registration of a case against some Nihang Sikhs, who were booked for allegedly disrupting an event organised by Christian missionaries in Amritsar's Daduana village.

A row broke out at Infant Mary English Medium High School in Mangaluru over alleged forcible removal of Raksha bandhan bands tied on some students' wrists and throwing them in the dustbin.

Several workers of a right-wing outfit were seen barging into a school in Madhya Pradesh and throwing stones at the building, claiming religious conversion by the Christian Missionary institution.

As many as 17 American Christian missionaries and their families, including children, were kidnapped on Saturday by gang members in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince, the New York Times reported, citing security officials there.

Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh has accused Christian missionaries of running programmes for forced conversion of Sikh families in border villages, a charge vehemently denied by the Bishop of Diocese of Amritsar.

A delegation of heads of hospitals run by Christian institutions in Bengaluru met Karnataka Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar and sought help in keeping their facilities operational. They claim that the BS Yediyurappa government's order to reserve 50 per cent beds for COVID-19 along with some patient's refusal to pay has made it financially ...

The Madras High Court on Friday observed that there was a general feeling that coeducational study in Christian educational institutions was "highly unsafe" for the future of girl children and though Christian missionaries impart good education, their preaching of morality would be a "million dollar question".

One of the oldest Christian missionary schools in Manipur's Kakching district was burnt down on Friday, after disciplinary action was taken against six students. The police have filed a case and an investigation has been initiated.

The US is not pursuing action against the Sentinelese tribe members in India who killed an American missionary trying to enter their island last year, according to the top State Department official for religious freedom.

Many lessons could and have been drawn from the story of an American Christian missionary killed this month when he tried to contact a hostile hunter-gatherer tribe on an isolated island in the Indian Ocean.

The body of a 17-year-old Dalit girl was found hanging from a ceiling fan of a skilling centre, run by a Christian missionary trust in UP's Badohi, police said on Monday.

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have arrested at least 18 staff of an international NGO, including an American woman, accusing them of carrying out Christian missionary work, the country's leaders said Saturday.

The finance minister of the devolved Scottish government, who spent some of her formative years in India where her parents worked as Christian missionaries, on Monday threw her hat in the ring to be elected Scotland's First Minister.

The family of a Christian priest in Kerala is mourning the demise of three of their friends who died in the plane crash in Nepal while returning home after attending the missionary's funeral at Anikadu near Pathanamthitta on Friday.

An important witness in the alleged conversion incident here told the police on Monday that people associated with a Christian missionary were offering to bear the costs of her marriage as well as giving her gifts to tempt her to convert.

The Jathedar's remarks came days after the registration of a case against some Nihang Sikhs, who were booked for allegedly disrupting an event organised by Christian missionaries in Amritsar's Daduana village.

A row broke out at Infant Mary English Medium High School in Mangaluru over alleged forcible removal of Raksha bandhan bands tied on some students' wrists and throwing them in the dustbin.

Several workers of a right-wing outfit were seen barging into a school in Madhya Pradesh and throwing stones at the building, claiming religious conversion by the Christian Missionary institution.

As many as 17 American Christian missionaries and their families, including children, were kidnapped on Saturday by gang members in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince, the New York Times reported, citing security officials there.

Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh has accused Christian missionaries of running programmes for forced conversion of Sikh families in border villages, a charge vehemently denied by the Bishop of Diocese of Amritsar.

A delegation of heads of hospitals run by Christian institutions in Bengaluru met Karnataka Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar and sought help in keeping their facilities operational. They claim that the BS Yediyurappa government's order to reserve 50 per cent beds for COVID-19 along with some patient's refusal to pay has made it financially ...

The Madras High Court on Friday observed that there was a general feeling that coeducational study in Christian educational institutions was "highly unsafe" for the future of girl children and though Christian missionaries impart good education, their preaching of morality would be a "million dollar question".

One of the oldest Christian missionary schools in Manipur's Kakching district was burnt down on Friday, after disciplinary action was taken against six students. The police have filed a case and an investigation has been initiated.

The US is not pursuing action against the Sentinelese tribe members in India who killed an American missionary trying to enter their island last year, according to the top State Department official for religious freedom.

Many lessons could and have been drawn from the story of an American Christian missionary killed this month when he tried to contact a hostile hunter-gatherer tribe on an isolated island in the Indian Ocean.