A never-seen-before interview with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs will premiere next month. In the interview, Jobs speaks about how he pulled off a prank call to the Pope, saying he was US secretary of state Henry Kissinger. Jobs was interviewed by journalist Bob Cringely in 1995 for a Channel 4 series titled "Triumph Of The Nerds", the Daily Mail reported. The Apple founder - who died in October last year...
10:44 AM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: Christians across India and other parts of the world took part in midnight masses and celebrations are to continue through the day that marks the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Pope will also deliver his message later on Sunday afternoon at the Vatican's mass. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh greeted the people of the nation on Easter. The Prime Minister said in his message said the universal significance of...
08:01 AM, Apr 08, 2012
New Delhi: Christians around the world are observing Good Friday today. The day marks the crucification of Jesus Christ at the end of the Lent period and devotees will spend the day fasting. Good Friday is the culmination of the 40-day Lent period during which they abstained from meat, alcohol and sweets. Good Friday is observed during the Holy Week, which also includes Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Holy Saturday....
08:29 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Cairo: Christians gathered on Sunday to pay final respects to Pope Shenouda III, who sought to soothe sectarian tension in his four decades atop Egypt's Orthodox Church but saw increasing flareups in the majority Muslim nation in the last months of his life. Friction has worsened since President Hosni Mubarak, who suppressed Islamists, was ousted last year. Since then Shenouda, who died on Saturday aged 88, often called for harmony...
04:14 PM, Mar 18, 2012
London: Shun 'arrogant' artificial fertilisation treatment; sex is the 'only acceptable' way to conceive - that's Pope Benedict's message to infertile couples across the world. According to the Pontiff, artificial methods of getting pregnant, like the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), were simply "arrogance" and matrimony was the "only place worthy of the call to existence of a new human being". Speaking at the end of a three-day Vatican conference on infertility...
12:45 PM, Feb 26, 2012
Kochi: Catholics in Kerala were elated as Mar George Alencherry, the Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly diocese of the Syro-Malabar Church, was on Saturday ordained a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Many of the Catholics, who form 50 per cent of the over seven million Christians in Kerala, were glued to the live coverage from the Vatican as Alencherry was ordained by the Pope along with 21 other bishops from...
08:55 PM, Feb 18, 2012
Vatican City: Pope Benedict, putting his stamp on the future of Roman Catholicism, named 22 new cardinals on Friday, the red-hatted "princes of the Church" who are his closest aides and will one day choose his successor. One of the most prominent on the list is Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York. Others are from Italy, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, India, Canada, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Germany, China, Romania,...
06:27 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Vatican City: Pope Benedict XVI marked the end of 2011 with prayers of thanks and said humanity awaits the new year with apprehension but also with hope for a better future. "Another year approaches its end, while we await a new one, with the trepidation, desires and expectations of always," Benedict said at the traditional New Year's Eve vespers service, as he delivered his homily from the central altar of...
09:27 AM, Jan 01, 2012
Vatican City: Pope Benedict ushered in Christmas for the world's 1.3 billion Roman Catholics, urging humanity to see through the superficial glitter and commercialism of the season and rediscover the real significance of the humble birth of Jesus. The 84-year-old pope, celebrating the seventh Christmas season of his pontificate, also urged that those marking the holiday in poverty, suffering or far from home not be forgotten. At the start of...
09:02 AM, Dec 25, 2011
Sex in a voting booth? Jeanne Moos reports on below the belt advertisements and kissing world leaders. ...
08:59 AM, Nov 17, 2011
Vatican City: The Benetton clothing company withdrew an ad on Wednesday featuring a fake photo of Pope Benedict XVI kissing a top Egyptian imam on the lips after the Vatican denounced it as an unacceptable provocation. Benetton had said its "Unhate" campaign launched on Wednesday was aimed at fostering tolerance and "global love". The campaign's fake photos feature a half-dozen purported political nemeses in lip-locked embraces, including President Barack Obama...
03:55 AM, Nov 17, 2011
Los Angeles: Actress and social activist Susan Sarandon was reported to have called Pope Benedict a Nazi during a public discussion at a U.S. film festival in New York, provoking criticism from both Catholic and Jewish groups. The movie star, who won an Oscar for her role in the 1995 anti-death penalty film 'Dead man Walking' actress, said she had sent a copy of the book, on which the movie...
02:12 PM, Oct 18, 2011
Washington: The US Supreme Court has rejected an eleventh-hour appeal from Troy Davis to prevent Georgia authorities from executing him for the murder of an off-duty police officer. The court did not comment on its order on late Wednesday, four hours after receiving the last-ditch request. The filing by Davis' lawyers came after state officials refused to grant Davis a reprieve in the face of calls for clemency from former...
08:04 AM, Sep 22, 2011
Vatican City: The Vatican is taking a leap into the world of new media on June 29 with the launch of a news information portal that Pope Benedict XVI himself may put online with a papal click. Vatican officials said Saturday that Benedict has been following the development of the portal - http://www.news.va - which will for the first time aggregate information from the Vatican's various print, radio and television...
08:09 AM, Jun 27, 2011
Vatican City: The Vatican, whose communications problems are no secret, is taking a leap into the world of new media with the launch next week of a news information portal that Pope Benedict XVI himself may put online with a papal click. Vatican officials said on Saturday that Benedict has been following the development of the portal, which will for the first time aggregate information from the Vatican's various print,...
08:17 PM, Jun 25, 2011
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