Two secret societies battle for the control of mankind. One is good, the other evil. Since before the beginning of Christianity, one group has protected, and the other has sought, an ancient object that is the key to knowledge and power.

Last week, in responding to some of the hundreds of reactions i received to my September 28 column on the anti-Christian violence in Orissa and Karnataka, i tackled the vexed question of conversions to Christianity, which many readers argued constituted a provocation for the violence.

For most people, the term "Progressive Christianity" is a new one.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Oct. 11: Kerala-born nun Sister Alphonsa will be elevated to the status of saint tomorrow, in what will be one of the greatest moments of pride and joy for Indian Christianity Culminating a long-drawn process of canonisation which began half-a-century back, the Catholic Pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI, will be canonising Sister Alphonsa along with three others at a special ...

Church bells rang in India's southern Kerala state and firecrackers went off on Sunday as Pope Benedict elevated the country's first woman to sainthood, more than sixty years after her death.

A victim of superstition on her Indian Ocean island home, 29-year-old Zaely never knew her twin sister, who was raised by somebody else.

COMMENT ON THIS ! Your Views! Two millennia of Indian Christianity will have its greatest moment of joy and pride when Pope Benedict XVI elevates Kerala-born Sister Alphonsa to the status of saint on Sunday.

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 11 Two millennia of Indian Christianity will have its greatest moment of joy and pride when Pope Benedict XVI elevates Kerala-born Sister Alphonsa to the status of saint tomorrow.

Abel Ferrara returns to his roots with films about Catholicism and Little Italy.

Republican John McCain, the clock ticking down on a chance to narrow Democrat Barack Obama's lead in polls, turned away Saturday from visceral attacks on his rival to pivot back toward policy differences.