London: A British priest has apologised for some unholy language on his Facebook page, his bishop says. Canon Paul Shackerley, Vicar of the Minster Church of St George in Doncaster in northern England, raised eyebrows by using the f--- word and remarking that "alas, I have religion tomorrow" in some Saturday evening postings. Peter Burrows, the bishop of Doncaster, met with Shackerley on Friday and later said the priest regretted...
11:13 AM, May 28, 2012
Kollam (Kerala): After the visit of three Italian ministers to try and get two Italian marines released from prison, Kerala witnessed a round of Church diplomacy when two Italian priests arrived at the home of one of the fishermen shot dead by the marines. Confirming to IANS that on Wednesday two Italian priests arrived here and visited the home of Gelastine, one of the two fishermen killed by the Italian...
05:45 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Mumbai: Two 26-year-old men who were promised jobs in Dubai by a priest and later sexually abused by him, have conducted a sting operation to bare the man of God in rather unbecoming circumstances. MiD DAY has a copy of the CD in which the priest - identified as Kanak Kubdiya, resident of Dadar - is allegedly seen sodomising one of the victims at the quarters of a temple in...
10:14 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Mumbai: Two 26-year-old men, who were promised jobs in Dubai by a priest and later sexually abused by him, have conducted a sting operation to bare the man of God in rather unbecoming circumstances. MiD DAY has a copy of the CD in which the priest -- identified as Kanak Kubdiya, resident of Dadar -- is allegedly seen sodomising one of the victims at the quarters of a temple in...
01:13 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Chennai: Catholic priest Reverend Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul was arrested in Erode in Tamil Nadu on charges of molesting a child in the US when he was there during 2004, police said on Saturday. Acting on an alert by Interpol, Tamil Nadu police arrested Rev Jeyapaul, 57, on Friday evening and presented him in a court in Erode which ordered that he be handed over to Interpol officials in New Delhi....
10:39 PM, Mar 18, 2012
Chennai: Catholic priest Rev Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul was arrested in Erode in Tamil Nadu on charges of molesting a child in the US when he was there during 2004, police said Saturday. Acting on an alert by Interpol, Tamil Nadu police arrested Rev Jeyapaul, 57, Friday evening and presented him in a court in Erode which ordered that he be handed over to Interpol officials in New Delhi. The Tamil...
11:01 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Panaji: If Father Bismarque Dias sticks to his guns till March 3, he may well become the first man of the cloth to contest elections in Goa. The thin, wiry French beard-sporting Roman Catholic priest who hails from St Estevam island, in the Cumbharjua constituency near Panaji, is at ease preaching from the pulpit as well as leading civil society agitations against illegal mining and state-endorsed abusive land use policies....
12:52 PM, Jan 12, 2012
London: The ancient Indian practice of yoga that helps in attaining physical and spiritual discipline has been termed a 'work of the devil' by a top Vatican priest. Vatican's 85-year-old chief exorcist Gabriel Amorth also warned of Satanic influences in the 'Harry Potter' books, The Sun reported. The priest, who has carried out over 70,000 exorcisms in 25 years, said: "Both seem innocuous but they deal with magic and that...
02:15 PM, Nov 28, 2011
London: 'Twilight' star Robert Pattinson says he is technically married to girlfriend Kristen Stewart, because producers hired a real priest to preside over their on-screen wedding in the latest installment of the film franchise. The couple tie the knot as young lovers Bella Swan and Edward Cullen in 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part I', official than he expected, reported GQ magazine. "The wedding scene's funny because we used...
03:39 PM, Oct 29, 2011
It is nearly five times the 52 crore rupees insurance cover last year for the ten day long festival. ...
12:36 AM, Sep 01, 2011
Berlin: You can rate your restaurant meal, your make-up, your teacher online and now in Germany your priest. Hirtenbarometer(http://hirtenbarometer.de) or the "shepherds' barometer" is the first online platform where priests can be rated for their performance at church services, on projects for youths and the elderly, on their credibility and on how up to date they are. "Pastoral work should be qualitative," Andreas Hahn, one of the founders said of...
11:55 AM, Aug 03, 2011
Bhubaneshwar: Tension erupted in the temple town of Puri after a clash between the police and junior priests at the Jagannath temple on Monday. Three junior priests and 1 policeman got injured in a tussle between the two sides. This after the police prohibited the priests from allowing large number of devotees to climb the chariots of Lord Jagannath, Bhalabadra and Sumitra. The incident occurred during the 'Abakash' ritual of...
02:12 PM, Jul 04, 2011
Matura: A priest of the Banke Bihari temple was clubbed to death at his residence on Saturday night. The murders also slashed his wrists. Police suspect two men who were staying with the victim, Satish Goswami. The two suspects are absconding. The body of Satish Kumar Goswami was found by his domestic help on Sunday morning in his room at the ashram where he lived away from his family, they...
02:42 PM, Jun 12, 2011
New Delhi: A 56-year-old priest of a temple in the city was arrested from Bihar on Thursday for allegedly raping a school girl in north-east Delhi, police said. Sarv Narayan Jha, a resident of Nand Nagri, was arrested from Darbhanga in Bihar. He allegedly raped the 17-year-old girl on May 10, Deputy Commissioner of Police (North-East) Sanjay Kumar Jain said. Jha, who is married and has six children, was serving...
11:27 PM, May 19, 2011
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