Christian Village

"Life has stopped since October 2023," said Milad al-Alam, Mayor of village Rmeish, saying most commercial activity had come to a halt since Hezbollah started launching rockets across the border into Israel.

It is Christmas time in Meghalaya, a Christian majority state, as streets, homes and villages have been decked up with Christmas decorations ahead of the festive celebrations.

At Lebanon's border with Israel, residents of a Christian village are hoping war can be avoided even as they prepare for the possibility of worsening hostilities between the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah and Israel.

A 51-year-old man was arrested for allegedly trying to convert some villagers in Indore in Madhya Pradesh to Christianity, a police official said on Monday.

Locals found burnt furniture inside, walls blackened with smoke from the fire, and 'Ram' written on the wall inside the Christian prayer hall in Chauki Pura village in tribal dominated Sukhtawa block of the district.

Construction on a $900 million port in Kerala resumed today after protesters from a mainly Christian fishing village ended a blockade of the Adani Group site.

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.

Five years ago, SpaceX started building a launch pad in Boca Chica Village, hauling in dirt by the tonne.

A congregation at prayer in Maharashtra's Kolhapur was attacked ahead of Christmas on Sunday. A group of nearly 20 masked people had attacked the group, who had gathered at the home of a local at Kowad village -- located on the Karnataka border -- when Sunday prayers were in progress.

Sixteen people were arrested on Saturday over allegations of trying to convert tribal villagers in Jharkhand's Dumka district. The police claimed that the people arrested are "associated with a Christian organisation" and accused them of "religious conversions".

Caught in the web of religious hatred, social boycott and alleged forced conversion, four Christian families have been living in fear in a remote village in Nowshera in the Jammu region.

"They're everywhere," said the Iraqi intelligence officer, sweeping his arm from this ancient Christian village toward the horizon. The Iraqi captain was searching for tunnels dug by Islamic State fighters.

Stefan Henze was travelling with a teammate in a taxi to the athletes' village early on Friday in the Barra de Tijuca neighbourhood when the car crashed into a concrete barrier. His teammate Christian Kaeding suffered minor injuries and was briefly treated in hospital before being released

At least 15 Syrian Christians who had been held by the Islamic State group in the central village of Al-Qaryatain were released Friday, monitoring groups said.

Islamic State has released 22 of the dozens of Assyrian Christians it abducted from villages in northeastern Syria earlier this year, a monitoring group said on Tuesday.

"Life has stopped since October 2023," said Milad al-Alam, Mayor of village Rmeish, saying most commercial activity had come to a halt since Hezbollah started launching rockets across the border into Israel.

It is Christmas time in Meghalaya, a Christian majority state, as streets, homes and villages have been decked up with Christmas decorations ahead of the festive celebrations.

At Lebanon's border with Israel, residents of a Christian village are hoping war can be avoided even as they prepare for the possibility of worsening hostilities between the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah and Israel.

A 51-year-old man was arrested for allegedly trying to convert some villagers in Indore in Madhya Pradesh to Christianity, a police official said on Monday.

Locals found burnt furniture inside, walls blackened with smoke from the fire, and 'Ram' written on the wall inside the Christian prayer hall in Chauki Pura village in tribal dominated Sukhtawa block of the district.

Construction on a $900 million port in Kerala resumed today after protesters from a mainly Christian fishing village ended a blockade of the Adani Group site.

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.

Five years ago, SpaceX started building a launch pad in Boca Chica Village, hauling in dirt by the tonne.

A congregation at prayer in Maharashtra's Kolhapur was attacked ahead of Christmas on Sunday. A group of nearly 20 masked people had attacked the group, who had gathered at the home of a local at Kowad village -- located on the Karnataka border -- when Sunday prayers were in progress.

Sixteen people were arrested on Saturday over allegations of trying to convert tribal villagers in Jharkhand's Dumka district. The police claimed that the people arrested are "associated with a Christian organisation" and accused them of "religious conversions".

Caught in the web of religious hatred, social boycott and alleged forced conversion, four Christian families have been living in fear in a remote village in Nowshera in the Jammu region.

"They're everywhere," said the Iraqi intelligence officer, sweeping his arm from this ancient Christian village toward the horizon. The Iraqi captain was searching for tunnels dug by Islamic State fighters.

Stefan Henze was travelling with a teammate in a taxi to the athletes' village early on Friday in the Barra de Tijuca neighbourhood when the car crashed into a concrete barrier. His teammate Christian Kaeding suffered minor injuries and was briefly treated in hospital before being released

At least 15 Syrian Christians who had been held by the Islamic State group in the central village of Al-Qaryatain were released Friday, monitoring groups said.

Islamic State has released 22 of the dozens of Assyrian Christians it abducted from villages in northeastern Syria earlier this year, a monitoring group said on Tuesday.