Christmas, Carols And Unique Indian Christianity
New Delhi: Christianity came to India much before it went to the west, perhaps a reason why India's 25 million Christians prefer to be catholic in faith // , oriental in worship and Indian in culture. ....It has been a two-way process - a process of osmosis where Christianity has over the centuries become an indelible part of Indian plurality. Not only for the urban middle classes enthusiasticall...Rajasthan Plans To Run Christian Institutions
The Rajasthan government is planning to run all educational and charitable institutions operated in the state by the Emmanuel Society, a Christian mission whose head was // detained in connection with a controversial book. ..The society runs and maintains schools, hospitals and orphanages in the state. ..The state government earlier this month had cancelled the registration of the society and a...The Council for Social Justice and Peace of then Archidiocese of Goa and Daman has advocated voluntary and not mandatory HIV testing before marriage. // ....Reacting to reports in sections of the media about a state government move to bring in legislation to make HIV tests mandatory before marriage to arrest the spread of AIDS, the church authorities said such testing should be "voluntary and no...Rev. Jerry Falwell, the controversial icon of the right is no more . ...The television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority and used it to mold the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University. He was 73. ...He died suddenly of what his doctor suspects was the final throes of heart disease. ...Dr. Carl Moor...