A top Vatican cardinal with a passion for shooting defended his rich collection of rifles and handguns in comments on Thursday to Italian newspapers that have already dubbed him ‘Cardinal Rambo.’

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The government which received flak for the lathi charge on the faithful participating in a funeral at St Mary’s Church, Pazhamthottam near here, on March 17, launched a fresh initiative on Wednesday t

A Philippine teenager is suing her exclusive Catholic girls school after it punished the student for posting a Facebook picture of herself reportedly in a bikini, a court said Wednesday.

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What is the value of a 16th century church in Kerala that was built by the Portuguese in the baroque style of architecture? For the believers and the clergy, it is just a place of worship where the be

Bengaluru, Jan. 29: The Union law minister, Mr M. Veerappa Moily, on Saturday demanded that the state government should hand over the church attack cases to the country’s premiere investigation agency

Dec 25: An improvised bomb exploded Saturday at the roof of a Catholic church in the southern Philippines, injuring six people attending a Christmas Day mass, a regional military spokesman said.

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Baghdad, AP: Iraqi security forces stormed a Baghdad church where militants had taken an entire congregation hostage for four hours, leaving at least 52 people dead, including a priest, Iraqi official

London: A Roman Catholic leader in Britain has compared the paedophile scandal involving priests with the banking collapse that led to recession worldwide.

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Miscreants set fire to a Catholic church in the Colombian capital city of Bogota on Thursday, authorities said.

Octavio Mora, the parish priest in the Galan neighbourhood church, said the blaze was a

The US President, Mr Barack Obama, on Friday again backed controversial plans to build an Islamic centre near the site of 9/11 attacks in New York reminding critics that the US was at war against terr