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Churches involved in torture, murder of thousands of African children denounced as witches in Nigeria.

Vatican City: Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran has written a letter to Hindus calling upon everyone, including political leaders, to work to ensure that human life and religious freedom are protected, thus fostering full human development.

Melbourne (Australia): A pastor in the US has revealed that his church is planning to burn Bibles and books by Christian authors on Halloween.

In the letter released Friday, the lawmakers called for the rule of law in the eastern state which last year witnessed large scale violence against Christians following the murder of a Hindu seer.

Chennai: A lady doctor and her nephew were on Saturday arrested by Chennai police for allegedly swindling Rs 7.5 crore, which was disbursed by a US-based funding agency to a CSI church in Royapettah for tsunami rehabilitation work.

Ranchi (Jharkhand): The Association of Rectors of Major Seminaries of India (ARMS) plans to tackle the problem of Hindu fundamentalism that its says is the biggest threat to the Church and India as a whole.

Greenville Police arrested John David Helmuth Tuesday in an internet predator sting. He faces 10 charges of criminal solicitation of a minor and one count of attempted criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

Hourigan served a five-year sentence and was placed on Kentucky’s sex offender registry for the rest of his life.

A Roman Catholic bishop facing charges of possessing child pornography has turned himself in to Canadian police.

Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala): As many as 63 Christian priests in the state face criminal charges pending against them in cases like murder, rape, assualt etc., reveals documents yielded as per the Right to Information Act.

80 acres of land on Dhavagi Hills at Uttan has been reserved for dumping garbage collected from Mira-Bhyandar suburbs.

Jews and Hindus have found some of the Pope’s World Mission Sunday message posted on The Holy See website “shocking”.

Congress leaders declared that a youth in Ponnur committed suicide due to YSR's death and extended financial relief to the family.

Verona (Italy): When he was a young boy at a Catholic-run institute for the deaf, Alessandro Vantini said, priests sodomized him so relentlessly he came to feel "as if I were dead." This year, he and dozens of other former students did something highly unusual for Italy: They went public with claims they were forced to perform sex acts with priests.

Subramanyam religion as below indicates is a Christian. It shows that YSR had a clear preference for Christians who form a tiny 3% of Andhra Pradesh