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Australian police have arrested a Roman Catholic priest on pedophilia charges, following months of negotiations to have him returned from the Vatican.

A police probe would be conducted into allegations that an article appearing in a news magazine of a pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP-Indian people’s party) has depicted the Catholic Church in a poor light in Madhya Pradesh

26-year-old nun allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison. Relatives of the deceased refused to accept the body after the postmortem, alleging that she was tortured by church authorities..

Pope Francis has called for "friendship and respect" among all faiths at a meeting with representatives of major world religions in the Vatican. So can expect from him that missionaries will stop conversion of non-christians ?

In a shocking incident, a Catholic priest was arrested from a remote village in Ambikapur district of Chhattisgarh for sexually assaulting four minor tribal girls. Medical examination of the minors aged between 6 and 8 years confirmed rape.

Over 600 empty liquor bottles, rotting vegetables in the store, one broken toilet and just one room. Such are the conditions that the police found 29 poor tribal girls living in when it rescued them in a raid at an illegal child home in Jaipur.

An Indian priest who molested several young girls in the United States remains a threat to children in India, a lawyer for one of his victims has said in announcing a $750,000 settlement.

Far from being a saviour, she (Mother Teresa) was a suppressor of the poor, according to Christopher Hitches, author of Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice.

A study conducted by Canadian researchers has called Mother Teresa "anything but a saint", a creation of an orchestrated and effective media campaign.

Few passing London tourists would ever guess that the premises of Bulgari, the upmarket jewellers in New Bond Street, had anything to do with the pope. Nor indeed the nearby headquarters of the wealthy investment bank Altium Capital, on the corner of St James's Square and Pall Mall.

In what is being seen as an assault on religious freedom, the management of an admittedly secular school in Chennai has suspended a teacher for reciting Hindu prayers during assembly.

Priests of the Roman Catholic Church might be hiding their faces as England’s ‘Court of Appeal’ has upheld a ruling that the Roman Catholic Church can be held liable for the wrongdoings of its priests.

On the gentle slopes of Pulpally, Wayanad, a lone ex-nun, Sister Mary Chandy, is raising the hackles of the Catholic church.So will the Church let more light into its pews or wait for another book by one of its own to rake up another scandal?

All the five accused in the Sister Florence Mary rape case appeared before the mahila court in Trichy on Wednesday, even as the victim submitted a petition before the judge, seeking permission to officially engage a lawyer for the prosecution

Following his court sentence for importing large quantities of pornographic images, a Canadian bishop has received one of the heaviest penalties the Church can impose.