Longing For Liberty: Susan Jacoby’s New Book Traces Conversion’s Connection To Religious Freedom
source: ?https://www.au.org/church-state/april-2016-church-state/books-ideas/longing-for-liberty-susan-jacobys-new-book-traces April?2016 Books & Ideas By?Sarah E. Jones Strange Gods: A Secular History Of Conversion?by Susan Jacoby, Pantheon Books, 464 pp. Susan Jacoby, the author of?The Age of Unreason,?Freethinkers?and other books, tackles the thorny subject of religious conversion in her compelling new release from Pantheon Books. Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion?critically examines […]
How faith conversion affected kings and their empires throughout history
http://www.duquoin.com/article/ZZ/20160305/NEWS/303059923 For most of us today, religious faith is considered a very personal, private and individual thing. Throughout world history, though, nations have often followed the religious beliefs and ideologies of their rulers. For most of us today, religious faith is considered a very personal, private and individual thing.For most of us today, religious faith […]
Why Naxalites never attack churches in Chhattisgarh: RSS leader
June 2nd, 2016 
Crusade Watch
RAIPUR: Senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) functionary Indresh Kumar on Sunday questioned why there has been no Maoist attack on institutions of Christian communities, saying this needs an explanation.
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Church priest arrested for harassing woman
June 2nd, 2016 Crusade Watch
Coimbatore: A priest was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly sexually harassing a young woman while conducting special prayers to relieve her of stomach pain at a church in Sanganoor on Monday. The priest was remanded in judicial custody and lodged ... Read More
Why The Controversy Surrounding Baburao Savarkar?s Book On Christ Is A Hoax
June 2nd, 2016 Crusade Watch
The controversy surrounding the book Christ Parichay is a textbook case of ?suggestio falsi suppressio veri? and the creation of a controversy where there is none. Written by Ganesh Savarkar (also called Baburao), brother of Veer Savarkar,Christ Parichay was published ... Read More
India : A Secular State Or An Anti-Hindu State?
June 2nd, 2016 Crusade Watch
By Pashchiema Bhatia
This is a summary of an article on India?s secularism written by David Fawley titled ? India?s secularism is Anti-Hindu, BJP Govt should remove this anomaly? that appeared in Swarajya magazine. Dr. Frawley is an American Hindu teacher ... Read More
Pope Francis under fire for meeting French cardinal accused of sex abuse cover-up
June 2nd, 2016 Crusade Watch
Pope Francis came under fire after meeting Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, the Lyon archbishop who is suspected of covering up for a paedophile priest in a scandal that has rocked the Church in France.
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Church Divided Over RSS’s Move to Launch Christian Body
June 2nd, 2016 Crusade Watch
NEW?DELHI: The creation of a proposed Christian wing of the RSS is splitting the Indian church wide open. The Catholic Bishops? Conference of India (CBCI) has refused to participate in a meeting being organised by the John Dayal-led United Christian ... Read More
Pro-Christian Constitution aimed at stripping Sri Lanka?s Buddhist Land & Heritage
June 2nd, 2016 Crusade Watch
Shenali D Waduge
When out of 19 members selected by the Prime Minister only two (Kushan de Alwis & M K Nadeeka Damayanthi opposes the removal of Article 9 ?it revealed beyond doubt the objective. 70% comprise Buddhists in Sri Lanka ... Read More
Catholic Church allowed priest accused of raping teen to be reinstated in India, lawsuit claims
June 2nd, 2016 Crusade Watch
A Catholic diocese in India has put children at risk by reinstating the priest who allegedly assaulted a sexual abuse survivor, according to an explosive lawsuit filed Tuesday in Minnesota federal court.
The suit filed by veteran sex abuse attorney Jeff ... Read More
Church seeks explanation from member for marrying a Hindu
June 2nd, 2016 Crusade Watch
KOCHI: Stirring up a controversy, the Irinjalakuda diocese of the Catholic Church has sought an explanation from one of its members for marrying a Hindu woman.
Benny Thommana belonging to the St Joseph's Church at Oorakam had married Lija Jayasudhan 10 ... Read More
Gospel for Asia (GFA): Indian missionary caught in fund scandal in Canada, US
June 2nd, 2016 Crusade Watch
A lavishly funded missionary organisation that focuses on India, particularly Kerala, faces accusations in Canada of misusing millions of dollars in charitable donations while a class-action lawsuit, with a similar premise, has been filed against it in the US.
Gospel for ... Read More