by Anto Akkara | Mar 7, 2011 | News
BANGALORE, India (RNS/ENInews) Christian schools across Pakistan shut down on Thursday (March 3) for a three-day protest of the assassination of the country’s Minister for Religious Minorities. The call for the action came at an ecumenical meeting chaired by...
by Anto Akkara | Jan 18, 2011 | News
BANGALORE, India (RNS/ENInews) Pakistani churches say they’re frustrated by the government’s refusal to amend a controversial blasphemy law that makes it a capital crime to insult Islam or the Prophet Muhammad. Human rights groups have urged for the law to be repealed...
by Anto Akkara | Oct 19, 2010 | News
NAGPUR, India (RNS/ENInews) Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams deplored attempts by European governments to prohibit Muslim women from wearing body-covering burqas in public. “Governments should have better things to do than ban the burqa,” Williams, the leader...
by Anto Akkara | Oct 4, 2010 | News
Bangalore, India (RNS/ENInews) Churches in India have joined other faiths and political leaders in calling for calm after a court ruled that a religious site violently disputed by Hindus and Muslims should be split between the two groups. The high court of northern...
by Anto Akkara | Aug 10, 2010 | News
(RNS/ENInews) The International Assistance Mission has rejected Taliban claims that 10 staffers from the Christian aid agency who were killed in Afghanistan had been trying to convert Muslims. Our faith motivates and inspires us, but we do not proselytize. We abide by...
