The Gujarat High Court on Friday refused to direct trustees of an Agiyari (Parsi fire temple) in Valsad to allow a Parsi woman, who has married outside her community, to enter the holy place to perfor

Sabarimala is all set for a 10-day annual festival. The shrine will be opened on Monday by Thanthri Kandararu Maheswararu accompanied by Melsanthi Balamurali.

The flag hoisting ceremony, to mark the

Two months after he was forced to skip a literary fest in Jaipur, controversial writer Salman Rushdie on Saturday evening attended a function in the national capital amid tight security.

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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans, said on Friday he will resign at the end of the year after a decade of turmoil over female and gay bishops.

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The Government in Britain is all set to fight a landmark case arguing Christians have no fundamental right to wear a cross at work.

The case will be fought at the European Court of Human Rights in wh

Vatican archives documenting centuries of European history including Galileo Galilei's trial documents and Martin Luther's excommunication went on public display for the first time Wednesday.

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Thursday there's no way Chicago police officers would spy on Muslims or conduct surveillance operations in their communities like those carried out by New York officers in t

At least 15 people have died in violence over the past three days in Afghanistan following reports of burning holy Quran by foreign soldiers.

Afghans in various provinces staged demonstrations that e

The US military removed Korans from a US-run prison in Afghanistan because inmates were suspected of using the sacred book to pass messages to each other, American officials said on Tuesday.

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The government is considering a change in the law to exclude the religion of individuals from marriage certificates. This follows demands by minority groups, including Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists, now