Missionary Day

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.

NGO Funding License: FCRA licences - needed to receive funding from abroad - of over 12,000 NGOs and other organisations have expired, the Home Ministry said Saturday, days after it refused renewal of Mother Teresa's charity's licence.

A day after a controversy over the Centre's refusal to renew the Missionaries of Charity's license to accept foreign donations, officials of the organisation said work in its orphanages, hospices, and shelters for the poor are "going on as usual".

Police have detained four persons in connection with vandalism and ruckus allegedly created by activists of right-wing groups at a missionary school in Ganjbasoda town in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha district the day before over the religious conversions

A day after revoking a transfer order issued to four Kerala nuns staying at a Kottayam convent with a colleague who was allegedly raped by Bishop Franco Mulakkal, the Jalandhar diocese of the Catholic Church today released a communique overruling the decision. The new letter stated that the transfer order still stands because bishops do not usually...

Three young siblings from Telangana have died in a house fire in the US on Sunday. The three, who were missionary students, were guests for the holidays with the Coudriet family in Tennessee when the fire broke out around 11 pm. Aaron Naik, 17, Sharron Naik, 14 and Joy Naik, 15, were killed, along with 46-year-old Kari Coudriet, the owner of the ho...

A day after the bishop was sent to judicial custody, the Kuravilangadu police sent the notice to the congregation's public relations officer, sister Amala, asking her to appear before the probe team in seven days.

The principal of a missionary school in Assam's Morigoan district was arrested on charges of dishonouring the national flag, police said today.

For the first time since a nun was arrested in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi 13 days ago for allegedly selling an infant, the Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity has spoken out, expressing "regret, sorrow and condemnation of individual actions" that she spelt out have, however, no links to the Missionaries of Charity.

Days after the Roman Catholic Church backed the nun at the Missionaries of Charity shelter home in Ranchi who has been arrested for selling four babies, the police put out a video of the nun confessing to her role in the racket. In this short clip, the nun says three babies had been had been sold but the fourth infant, was given away for adoption f...

The Roman Catholic Church has come out in support of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity days after members of its Ranchi unit were accused of involvement in child trafficking. A senior church official accused the police of hounding the nuns who have been working in the state since 1959. The accused nun, he also said, is innocent and the confes...

Thousands of faithfuls and nuns from Missionaries of Charity from across the city gathered at the Mother House to pay tribute to Saint Teresa on her 19th death anniversary today.

Mother Teresa's birthday is always celebrated joyously at her home, Mother House, in Kolkata. But this year, there is something special in the air. After all, ten days from today, she will be canonized as Saint Teresa of Kolkata.

For an hour each day, Kim Chung-seong, a defector from North Korea and a Christian missionary, takes to the microphone in a small Seoul studio.

'Missionary Day', anniversary of the arrival of two Welsh Christian missionaries, was today observed and celebrated across the Christian-dominated north eastern state of Mizoram.

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.

NGO Funding License: FCRA licences - needed to receive funding from abroad - of over 12,000 NGOs and other organisations have expired, the Home Ministry said Saturday, days after it refused renewal of Mother Teresa's charity's licence.

A day after a controversy over the Centre's refusal to renew the Missionaries of Charity's license to accept foreign donations, officials of the organisation said work in its orphanages, hospices, and shelters for the poor are "going on as usual".

Police have detained four persons in connection with vandalism and ruckus allegedly created by activists of right-wing groups at a missionary school in Ganjbasoda town in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha district the day before over the religious conversions

A day after revoking a transfer order issued to four Kerala nuns staying at a Kottayam convent with a colleague who was allegedly raped by Bishop Franco Mulakkal, the Jalandhar diocese of the Catholic Church today released a communique overruling the decision. The new letter stated that the transfer order still stands because bishops do not usually...

Three young siblings from Telangana have died in a house fire in the US on Sunday. The three, who were missionary students, were guests for the holidays with the Coudriet family in Tennessee when the fire broke out around 11 pm. Aaron Naik, 17, Sharron Naik, 14 and Joy Naik, 15, were killed, along with 46-year-old Kari Coudriet, the owner of the ho...

A day after the bishop was sent to judicial custody, the Kuravilangadu police sent the notice to the congregation's public relations officer, sister Amala, asking her to appear before the probe team in seven days.

The principal of a missionary school in Assam's Morigoan district was arrested on charges of dishonouring the national flag, police said today.

For the first time since a nun was arrested in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi 13 days ago for allegedly selling an infant, the Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity has spoken out, expressing "regret, sorrow and condemnation of individual actions" that she spelt out have, however, no links to the Missionaries of Charity.

Days after the Roman Catholic Church backed the nun at the Missionaries of Charity shelter home in Ranchi who has been arrested for selling four babies, the police put out a video of the nun confessing to her role in the racket. In this short clip, the nun says three babies had been had been sold but the fourth infant, was given away for adoption f...

The Roman Catholic Church has come out in support of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity days after members of its Ranchi unit were accused of involvement in child trafficking. A senior church official accused the police of hounding the nuns who have been working in the state since 1959. The accused nun, he also said, is innocent and the confes...

Thousands of faithfuls and nuns from Missionaries of Charity from across the city gathered at the Mother House to pay tribute to Saint Teresa on her 19th death anniversary today.

Mother Teresa's birthday is always celebrated joyously at her home, Mother House, in Kolkata. But this year, there is something special in the air. After all, ten days from today, she will be canonized as Saint Teresa of Kolkata.

For an hour each day, Kim Chung-seong, a defector from North Korea and a Christian missionary, takes to the microphone in a small Seoul studio.

'Missionary Day', anniversary of the arrival of two Welsh Christian missionaries, was today observed and celebrated across the Christian-dominated north eastern state of Mizoram.