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."
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.
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!