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Sri Lankan security personnel walk past debris next to a dead body slumped over a bench following an explosion in St Sebastians Church in Negombo, north of the capital Colombo, on April 21, 2019. (Photo: AFP)

Sri Lanka church witnesses pieces of flesh thrown all over walls post...

Sri Lankan media reported that Negombo Hospital has at least 74 deaths and received 113 injured worshippers from the...

21 April 2019 6:33 PM IST

All public church services were cancelled after the Easter Sunday bomb blasts. (Photo: AP)

Sri Lankan police officials to face criminal charges for Easter Sunday...

India had issued warning to Sri Lanka in April about the possibility of attacks at various locations, including the...

21 Jun 2019 3:53 PM IST

Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo has said that it will reopen on Wednesday, seven weeks after the five star property was attacked by a suicide bomber on Easter Sunday. (Photo: AP)

Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo to reopen on Wednesday after deadly Easter...

While the other two hotels reopened in recent weeks, most of the sections of the Shangri-La Hotel remained closed.

11 Jun 2019 3:54 PM IST

All public church services were cancelled after the Easter Sunday bomb blasts. (Photo: AP)

Lankan Easter attacks inspired from Jihadi group, no IS link:...

President Maithripala Sirisena has said the attacks were the work of international drug dealers to sabotage his...

25 July 2019 3:32 PM IST

The lowest rungs of police forces often used the provision for harassment and extortion. The sooner its off the statute book, the easier life would get for LGBTQ people.

'Devastating news', says Bishop as Canada's Anglican Church rejects...

Many in the church, which has nearly 1,700 parishes, were disappointed.

15 July 2019 10:17 AM IST

In 2017, the apex court had upheld the 1934 constitution of Malankara church and gave Orthodox group control over 1100 parishes and churches in Kerala but Jacobites, who were controlling majority of the churches, are not ready to give up. (Photo: Manorama news | video screengrab)

Kerala church fiasco: Tensions on high as police enter church to...

Jacobites and Orthodox factions in Ernakulam have been struggling to gain control of 1000 odd churches and their rich...

26 Sept 2019 3:56 PM IST

Bosnian riot policemen stand outside the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Sarajevo, Bosnia, ahead of the commemoration Mass for Croatian pro-Nazis killed at the end of World War II. (AP)

Bosnia Church holds Mass for Croatia's pro-Nazi WWII regime

The Mass provoked outrage from most political parties, Jewish leaders the Serbian Orthodox Church and anti-fascist NGOs

16 May 2020 4:38 PM IST

Raging debates between conversion and reconversion have produced not merely forms of symbolic violence but resulted in actual physical violence.

Yoke of conversion: Good Samaritan never forced any conversions

Read the parable of the Good Samaritan, who comes to the rescue of the much reviled Jew, waylaid and forsaken.

16 Dec 2018 12:10 AM IST

Accounts of the Gospel state that He was put to death after he was betrayed by Judas and the date falls during Holy Week on the Friday before Easter Sunday. (Photo: Pixabay)

10 things you probably did not know about Good Friday

The earliest known use of "Guode Friday" is found in The South English Legendary, a text from around 1290.

30 March 2018 9:38 AM IST

The man who appears to be the childs father prised the child out of the priests grip, even as the cleric struggled for possession of the child.

Video: Relatives snatch baby from priest after he slaps it for crying...

The outraged man and woman, who appear to be the child's parents then take the child away from the clutches of the...

22 Jun 2018 10:26 AM IST

He was super ambitious and was always trying to go above and beyond to make sure he could be as successful as possible. (Youtube Screengrab)

Gay valedictorian rejected by parents gets USD 80,000 in donations for...

The Florida teenager had began to lose hope, until his Biology teacher stepped in to help him out.

2 Aug 2018 12:46 PM IST

Church of St. Barbara

Czech into history

90 km from Prague, Kutn¡ Hora is a quiet spot nestled amidst hills and is best visited during the flower season in May.

7 May 2017 5:16 AM IST