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MUMBAI: INTOLERANCE, MORE HARMFUL THAN TERRORISM
My name
is Khan, Shah Rukh Khan's latest film, seeks to prove to
the world that terrorism is everyone's enemy. It hurts
everyone alike all races, Muslims or non Muslims. He is
in effect saying: 'I am a Muslim; My name is Khan, but I
am not a terrorist!' A commendable effort, which is
bound to be welcomed by well meaning people all over the
world.
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GLOBAL HARVEST BUSINESS FELLOWSHIP
With a
mission to reach out to the market place, Global Harvest
Church has initiated a business fellowship, which is
open for business men, women, entrepreneurs, and
professionals.
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RELOCATE SLUM DWELLERS BEFORE DEMOLISHING HOMES: HC
New Delhi, Feb 11 : Delhi High Court today ruled
that no jhuggi can be removed from encroached land
without rehabilitating the slum dwellers. A bench
comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice S
Muralidhar directed the MCD and other civic authorities
not to remove the slum dwellers who had been staying in
those localities.
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PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC SCHOOLS TO COME UNDER FORUM
Christian Today, Feb 10, 2010 -
Catholic and Protestant churches in India are
contemplating the need for an umbrella organisation to
defend its numerous educational institutions scattered
across the country. In the wake of sectarian and
religious violence, the National Council of Churches in
India (NCCI) and the Catholic Bishops' Conference of
India (CBCI), have agreed to unite under one forum
through which it can voice its concerns and resolve
disputes connected with its institutions.
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PALAKKAD BECOMES INDIA'S FIRST ‘TOTALLY ELECTRIFIED
DISTRICT’
New Delhi, Feb 11 : Union Power Minister Sushil
Kumar Shinde will declare Palakkad in Kerala as the
country's first 'total electrified district' Feb 16 at a
function in Ottapalam in the state. "With the
announcement being made by Shinde, the electricity will
reach each home in the district, even in houses located
in remote tribal areas, where the electricity could not
reach for more than 50 years," Kerala Electricity
Minister A.K. Balan told IANS Thursday on phone from
Palakkad.
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NOW FAMILY COURTS THAT ARE LITIGANT-FRIENDLY!
New Delhi, Feb 7 : Imagine a courtroom complete
with colourful walls, specially designed tables and
chairs, games, a television and even baby sitters - all
for kids. Two 'family courts' will be inaugurated in
Rohini to sort out family disputes in congenial and
supportive surroundings instead of overcrowded and
repelling environs of regular courts.
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DELHI COPS LEARN TO MIND THEIR LANGUAGE AHEAD OF 2010
GAMES
 New Delhi: On any other weekday morning,
constable Bishan Singh would have been on patrol near
Delhi University, keeping his eyes skinned for petty
crimes- "and also helping senior citizens if they need
assistance", he says, a little virtuously.
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SWINE FLU TOLLS CROSSES 1300 MARK
New Delhi, 14 Feb 2010: Six more people have
died of influenza A (H1N1) in India, taking the death
toll in due to the swine flu pandemic in the country so
far to 1302, an official statement said here today. Five
of the deaths were reported during the day from Gujarat
and one from Maharashtra, the statement said.
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INDIA'S FOOD INFLATION INCHING TO 18 PERCENT
New Delhi, Feb 11 : Even as Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh stressed last week that the worst was
over on rising prices of essential items, India's annual
food inflation based on wholesale prices rose to 17.94
percent for the week ended Jan 30. The annual rise in
the index for food articles was 17.56 percent for the
week before, as per official data released by the
commerce and industry ministry Thursday.
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MULTI-DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS WORRYING
AUTHORITIES
New Delhi, Feb 10: Delhi's health officials and
administrators Wednesday expressed concern over the
increasing number of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis
cases and said it was a growing health challenge. "Only
proper diagnosis and management of tuberculosis
treatment can prevent serious complications of
multi-drug resistant tuberculosis," Delhi Municipal
Commissioner K.S. Mehra said.
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BISHOP ARACKAL APPLAUDS MORATORIUM ON ‘BT BRINJAL’
February 11, 2010 (UCAN): A Catholic bishop, who
has been promoting organic faming for decades, has
welcomed an Indian government delay in introducing a
genetically modified hybrid brinjal or eggplant. Federal
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh announced the
moratorium on BT Brinjal at a press conference in New
Delhi, UCA News reports. He ordered independent
scientific studies on the plant’s long-term effects on
human health and the environment.
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 KARNATAKA CABINET APPROVES LEGAL BAN ON 'COW
SLAUGHTER'
Bangalore, 13 Feb 2010 : The Karnataka
State Cabinet has approved a new law to ban the
slaughter of cows and calves and ensure cattle
conservation. The Bill, which is set to replace the
Karnataka Prevention of Cow Slaughter and Cattle
Preservation Act, 1964, is expected to be tabled in the
next session of the legislature. The state is ruled by a
right-wing Hindu political party.
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INDIAN CHRISTIAN JOURNALISTS CALL ON TO DENOUNCE
FUNDAMENTALISM
Chennai, Feb 13, 2010 (Daijiworld): Christian
leaders and journalists addressing over 900 priests at
the Indian Priests Congress in Vailankanni (Thanjavur)
on Thursday February 11, called for ‘a radical change in
thinking among the Christians and a deeper involvement
in the politics and governance of the country as much as
being a watchdog to the democracy of this country’.
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GOSPEL BROUGHT US FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT: MANIPUR CM
Feb 8, 2010 /Christian Today: The Gospel has led
us from darkness to light, said Manipur Chief Minister
Ibobi Singh, as he heaped praise on pioneer missionaries
for bringing Good News to the northeast state. In his
message to thousands on the occasion of Gospel Centenary
Celebration of Independent Church of India, Singh said
"Gospel led us to light and has brought us education.”
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KARNATAKA GOVERNOR TAKES SERIOUS NOTE OF CHURCH
ATTACKS
Jan 27, 2010 /Christian Today: The governor of
Karnataka HR Bhardwaj has sternly warned against
anti-social elements causing communal disharmony and
conflict by vandalising churches. Addressing the
Republic Day function at the Manekshaw Parade Ground in
Bangalore, Bhardwaj said the nation’s founding fathers
had a vision to build a secular, united democratic
society in which people of all faiths and religions
enjoyed their basic freedom and right to practise their
religion.
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KARNATAKA CHURCH ATTACKS: RIGHT-WING HINDU GROUPS
INDICTED
Feb 2, 2010 /Christian Today/ Right-wing Hindu
groups have been held responsible for the series of
church attacks in Dakshina Kannada and adjoin districts
of Karnataka in the month of September 2008. Once again
ascertaining the growth of Hindu fundamentalism in the
BJP-ruled state, the interim report of Justice
Somasekhara Commission held Bajarang Dal, Sri Rama Sene
and VHP accountable for attacking churches and prayer
halls.
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SAVAGE ATTACK ON DAVANGERE CHRISTIANS BY RSS
Davangere: On 24th January 2010 at around 9:30,
a group of 20 members of the Hindu right wing
organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) led by
Rudresh and Basavaraju barged into the Indian Evangelica
Mission (IEM) located at Bidirikere village in Jagalur
taluk of Davangere district. They attacked Raju (28) and
others during the Sunday service. The gang was led by
Prakash, Madivalappa and Basavaraju of Bidarakere.
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PROTESTS AGAINST EU TEAM'S KANDHAMAL VISIT; FIVE HELD
BHUBANESWAR, 3 Feb 2010 ET Bureau: Five Bajrang
Dal activists have been held for staging protests
against a European Union (EU) delegation that arrived
here to visit Orissa's Kandhamal district to interact
with riot victims. The Bajrang Dal workers were detained
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CHURCH VANDALIZED BY ANTI-CHRISTIAN OUTFITS IN
KARNATAKA
Mandya: 60-year-old St Mathias Church in
Malavalli of Mandya district, Karnataka was vandalized
on the 4th February 2010. According to the GCIC sources
around 2:30 am, a group of anti-Christian miscreants
broke open the church's main door and window before
destroying all the statues.
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CHRISTIAN ARRESTED IN PUTTUR, KARNATAKA
Harish,
35 years, was arrested just after returning from a
friend's house after a prayer meeting on 7th February at
4.30 pm. The arrest was made on the basis of a false
complaint of forceful conversion filed by Bajarang Dal
leader Sekhar. Police from Kadaba Police arrested Harish.
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 CHURCH OF ENGLAND DECIDES TO SELL INDIAN MINING
VENTURE SHARES
Indian
Christian activists have welcomed a decision by the
Church of England to sell its shares in Vedanta
Resources, whose planned bauxite mine in north-east
India has taken flak from local residents and
conservationists.
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EU TEAM INTERACT WITH KANDHAMAL CHRISTIANS
BHUBANESWAR: An 11-member European Union (EU)
team on 4th February interacted with riot victims in
Orissa's Kandhamal district to find about the situation
in the region and heard their accounts, police and
eyewitnesses said. Several victims of the riots apprised
the visiting team about the steps the state government
has taken for their rehabilitation and the difficulties
they are currently facing.
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INDIANS GET PARTICULAR ABOUT ONLINE MARRIAGE
MUMBAI (AFP) — From the overweight and
transsexuals to people with HIV and those supposedly
afflicted by negative planetary positions, the Internet
dating game in India increasingly has a website for
everyone. And with Valentine's Day on Sunday, the
specialist sites are seeing a rise in hits. "There's
always an increase in activity around this time of
year," said Megha Singhal, who with her sister runs a
portal for larger lonely hearts --
www.overweightshaadi.com.
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DAKSHINA KANNADA POLICE HAVE BEEN SAFFRONISED’
Jan 31, DHNS: Dalit leaders participating in the
SC/ST grievances redress meeting convened by
Superintendent of Police on Sunday spoke elaborately on
various instances of police atrocities on Dalits.
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GOSPEL TRANSFORMS MILLIONS OF LIVES SINCE 1910
It's
been 100 years since Watkin Roberts first brought the
Gospel of John to the village of Senvon, India. Since
then, 95 percent of the village came to Christ, and
millions of individuals now call Christ their Savior in
the region.
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WORK FOR UNITY IN ORISSA: CRI LEADER
February 10, 2010
UCAN: Catholic Religious in Orissa need to do
more to unite people in the riot-hit eastern state, says
a leading nun there. Sister Flora Lakra, superior of the
Daughters of the Cross province in Orissa’s Rourkela,
says the “credibility of Religious” life is eroding
across India, including Orissa.
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SOMASEKHARA COMMISSION RESUMES INQUIRY
Feb 10, 2010 /Christian Today/ - A week after
sending the interim report on church attacks in
Mangalore and Dakshina Kannada districts, Justice B K
Somasekhara Commission has resumed inquiry till a final
report is submitted to the state government. In the
latest, a local Christian group submitted a set of
documents against the Bajrang Dal and its then state
convener Mahendra Kumar, accusing them of deliberate
attacks against minority Christians.
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EU DELEGATION MEETS VICTIMS OF KANDHAMAL VIOLENCE
Kandhamal, Feb 5, 2010: A European Union team
was given a rousing welcome here on Thursday by those
affected by anti-Christian violence in August 2008. The
victims showered petals on the visiting delegates at the
rehabilitation camp at Nandagiri in the G. Udaigiri
area. Many in the camp danced to drumbeats and several
shook hands with the11-member team.
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"RAM SENE" THREATENS TO DISRUPT VALENTINE'S DAY
CELEBRATIONS
Belgaum, 13 Feb 2010: Right-wing outfit Sri Rama
Sene, which was in the eye of a storm after its
activists attacked women at a pub in Mangalore in early
2008 in an act of moral policing, today said it would
not allow Valentine's Day celebrations in Karnataka.
Sene chief Pramod Muthalik asked educational
institutions, hotels, and theatres not to encourage
Valentine's Day celebrations.
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ARCHBISHOP CALLS FOR RECONCILIATION IN ORISSA
The
following is the statement of His Grace Raphael Cheenath,
SVD Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar at a Press
Conference today on the current situation in Kandhamal,
Orissa and issues of rehabilitation and reconciliation
and justice in the District. The press conference was
also addressed by Dr John Dayal, Member, National
Integration Council, and Secretary General, All India
Christian Council.
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CDI 2010: A READY-RECKONER FOR INDIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
Bangalore, Feb 11, 2010, Gabriel Vaz (Daijiworld):
The Catholic Directory of India of 2010, known as
CDI 2010, to be published in August will turn out to be
the ready-reckoner for Indian Catholic Church comprising
Latin, Syro-Malankara and Syro-Malabar rites and their
roughly 23 million faithful.
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BLASPHEMY LAW TO BE REVISED SOON: PAK MINISTER
WASHINGTON, Feb 8 2010 Samaa TV: The
Pakistani government plans to revise its laws against
blasphemy within this year, Minority Affairs Minister
Shahbaz Bhatti said on Sunday. Bhatti said religious
reconciliation was a little-noticed priority for
President Asif Ali Zardari's civilian government in
Pakistan, which lies on the frontline of the US-led war
against Islamic extremism.
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AUSSIE CHURCH WELCOMES INDIAN RECRUITS
Feb 12, 2010: The Catholic Church in
central Queensland is preparing to welcome three Indian
priests to the region to make up for a shortfall of
Australian clergymen. Rockhampton's Bishop Brian Heenan
has just returned from India where he has been able to
recruit three priests to his diocese. The Bishop says a
fall in the number of Australian priests has had the
local clergy stretched to the limit.
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ROAD TRIP COLLECTS USED BOOKS FOR NEPALI BELIEVERS
8 February, 2010, USA (MNN): The number of
Christians in Nepal is still at a low 0.6 percent. For
the believers that do live there, Christian resources
can be hard to come by. "The Christian population there
is very small, so the work is tremendous," John Lowrey
of Christian Resources International says about the
country. "There is just so much to be done--so much
evangelism to be done, so much pastor training to be
done.”
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CHRISTIAN LOSES CRUCIFIX APPEAL AGAINST BRITISH
AIRWAYS
 LONDON (AFP) — A devout Christian woman
lost her appeal Friday that she was discriminated
against by British Airways (BA) after the airline
suspended her for wearing a crucifix to work four years
ago. Nadia Eweida, 58, had appealed against an
employment tribunal decision that cleared BA of
religious discrimination over its policy, which changed
following a furore over her case in 2006.
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LANKAN BISHOPS CALL FOR POLITICIANS CODE OF CONDUCT
Feb 10, 2010 (UCAN): A group of Catholic
and Anglican bishops in Sri Lanka have urged politicians
to stop politics-related violence in the country so as
to further lasting peace and democracy. “It is quite
normal for people to side with a candidate before and
during a democratic election, but it is unacceptable for
them to be victims of reprisals once the election is
over,” Anglican Bishop Kumara Illangasinghe of
Kurunegala told UCA News.
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 GLENN
PENNER PASSES ON TO GLORY
Ottawa (Canada): After a seven year
struggle with cancer, Glenn Penner of The Voice of the
Martyrs Canada went home to be with the Lord on the
evening of January 26, 2010 at the age of 48. Glenn
first joined VOM-Canada in 1997. Klaas Brobbel, the
Director of the mission at the time, recalls, "Looking
back to August 1997 when we interviewed Glenn for the
position of Development Director for The Voice of the
Martyrs, I marvel at God's goodness and timing to send
Glenn our way.
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IMPRISONED MISSIONARY TELLS HIS STORY
Nepal (MNN) : In 2002, Mission Network
News told you about Gospel for Asia missionary Manja
Tamang from Nepal. He was serving as an evangelist when
he was falsely accused of murdering a foreign man, who
Tamang discovered along the road. He was sentenced to 20
years in prison but was released late last year. Now,
Tamang along with his wife, Rati, are telling their
story to the world.
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SINGAPORE DENOUNCES PASTOR FOR RIDICULING BUDDHISTS
Feb 9, 2010 (Reuters): Singapore has
warned a Christian pastor that his online videos are
offensive to Buddhists and Taoists, underlining the
city-state's concerns that religion is a potential
faultline for its multicultural society. Pastor Rony
Tan, of Lighthouse Evangelism, apologised and pulled the
video clips off the internet after being visited by the
government's Internal Security Department on Monday, the
pastor and the government said on their websites.
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EVEN THIRD-HAND SMOKE CAN POSE CANCER RISK
Washington, Feb 9 (ANI) : A new study has
shown that the residue from tobacco smoke that clings to
virtually all surfaces long after a cigarette has been
extinguished could prove to be a potential health
hazard. The research team at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) showed that nicotine in
third-hand smoke reacts with the common indoor air
pollutant nitrous acid to produce dangerous carcinogens.
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EARLY LIFE STRESS MAY CAUSE CARDIAC DISEASE
Washington, Feb 10 (IANS) : Early life
stress is likely to be a risk factor for cardiovascular
disease in adulthood, researchers suggest. "We think
early life stress increases sensitivity to a hormone
known to increase your blood pressure and increases your
cardiovascular risk in adult life," said Jennifer
Pollock.
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ED - A WARNING OF FUTURE HEART ATTACKS
New York, Feb 9 (IANS) : Beware! Erectile
disorder (ED) could be a grim warning of future heart
attacks, stroke, atherosclerosis and congestive heart
failure. These findings are based on 12-year research
study conducted by the New England Research Institutes,
(NERI) in collaboration with San Francisco General
Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco
(UCSF).
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