Conservative evangelical churches threaten to withhold cash from pro-gay and liberal ‘heretics’The Rev Paul Perkin seemed bewildered by the question: what was his take on the latest scheme for conservative evangelical churches to withhold money from th…
Hindu conference motivates women, youth & business community
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Jathedar asks Sikh panth to discuss draft threadbare
Amritsar, Punjab: Akal Takht jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh on Tueday asked the Sikh community in India and abroad to discuss and deliberate on the new draft of ‘Sikh Anand Marriage Act-2012′, which will enable the community members to get …
SGPC, DSGMC differ with Akal Takht on ‘complete marriage Act’
Amritsar, Punjab: Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh’s move to support a complete Sikh marriage Act has sparked a major controversy with the SGPC, DSGMC and Sikh intellectuals taking a conflicting stand. They said amendments being made in …
‘Teacher called students Hindu Pariah’
(Free Malaysia Today) – GEORGE TOWN: Racism has reared its ugly head in schools again and sources claim that there is an attempt to cover up the latest incident. As the nation celebrates …
Michael Gove’s Bibles: good for schools? | Poll
This week, copies of the King James Bible were sent out to every state school in the country, courtesy of the education secretary Michael Gove. They were paid for by donations, not from the public purse. Tell us if you think the scheme is a good idea …
Gurdwara near Miri Piri to house Operation Bluestar Memorial
Amritsar, Punjabi: Even as the countdown to the start of Operation Bluestar Memorial’s “kar sewa” on May 20 has begun, it has come to light that the memorial will be in the form of a gurdwara for which the left wing of the building lo…
Sri Akal Takht supports complete marriage Act
Amritsar, Punjab: Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh today said the draft of ‘Sikh Marriage Act — 2012’, prepared by Khalsa College principal Daljeet Singh, would be discussed in a meeting of the Sikh clergy and later forwarded to the Unio…
Russia: "Suddenly this case comes and they are regarded as law-breakers"
At least 16 raids took place early on 4 May on Jehovah’s Witness homes and places of worship in five towns in Russia’s Orenburg Region, Forum 18 News Service has learned. The raids followed criminal investigation on “extremism”-related charges. Orenbur…
The Rev Alex Leckey obituary
My father, Alex Leckey – who has died of pneumonia, a complication of Parkinson’s, aged 69 – left school without qualifications, but in the 1970s, answering a call to ministry, studied for O-levels and went to Queen’s theological college in Edgbast…
I’d rather be a Catholic than be ‘respectable’ | Catherine Pepinster
Hilary Mantel says the Catholic church is no longer a place for ‘respectable people’. But respectability is a problematic notion One of the heartaches of being a Roman Catholic in recent years has been the clerical abuse scandal. No pain that any of us…
