Christians

Washington (USA): America has always been very religiously vibrant, said Pew political scientist John Green, but today there are more options, more "things you can move from and to."

UK: The Vatican has issued new rules making the route to sainthood more difficult.

Montclair (USA): A married pastor of an Orange County church accused of having sex with a minor from Montclair was hit with additional charges Friday after he again disobeyed a court order to stay away from the teen.

USA: There are many white christian denominations/sects in the USA, especially in the southern and some midwestern states, that will not allow the mixing of whites and blacks in their churches for ideological reasons.

Vatican: The Vatican said Saturday it has suspended a monsignor from a senior post at the Holy See after an Italian TV program using a hidden camera recorded him making advances to a young man and asserting that gay sex was not sinful.

USA: An Iowa college professor claims he was fired over the phone after he called the story of Adam and Eve a 'fairy tale,' the Des Moines Register reports.

Las Vegas (USA): A Roman Catholic priest who smashed a wine bottle over the head of a woman in church pleaded guilty to felony battery with a deadly weapon.

Medipally (India): Almost all the Christians here and the overwhelming majority across India hail from the so-called Dalit community, the former 'untouchables' relegated to the bottom of the Hindu caste hierarchy. - By Yaroslav Trofimov

Dangram (Bengal): Monica Bestra has openly made a serious allegation against 'Missionaries of Charity' that she was lured and cheated and poverty was forced on her by missionaries of Mother Teresa.

Recently, when I filled in the Body Donation Form of my ailing mother (body, after death to be donated to medical college students for research) through the Dadichi Dehdaan Mandal, Dombivli, I got a promotion from a "Rebel" to an "Outcaste".

Loreto (Italy): It is significant that the Pope mentioned Mother Teresa's torment about God's silence as not being unusual because there was some speculation that the letters could hurt the procedure to make her a saint.

The court heard that the man had sex with his daughters for nearly a decade from 1991 when they were aged 13 and 15 at the family property.

The furious Catholic forum has come down heavily against the actor who plans to gift painting to Amrita Arora

Frederick, Colo. (AP): A Catholic priest faces an indecent exposure charge after jogging in the nude about an hour before sunrise.

An arrogant Pinarayi Vijayan has asked the church to withdraw protests and pastoral letters. He reminded the ignorant bishops of Pope John Paul-II-Fidel Castro relations!