Peninsula On-line - Qatar
Thiruvananthapuram: Being a priest or a nun is not a disqualification for the Bar, Kerala High Court has ruled...

Tina Jose, Sister C T Tresa and Fr Thomas Puthussery, backed by the Church, had contested before the single bench the discrimination and the denial of fundamental rights by the Kerala Bar Council enrollment committee...

What did you wear for your wedding, Ammachi? I watched
my grandmother closing her eyes as though she was viewing herself in the mind theatre. Then she spoke, I wore my first chatta and mundu on that day. Being a Syrian Christian and a wife-to-be, my mother felt it was only right that I wore the traditional chatta and mundu. It was so funny wearing a mundu for the first time....

This is a prayer of St. Nersess Shnorhali
(The Gracious) (1100 - 1173) which is commonly said during Lent.

1. I confess with faith and adore You, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, uncreated and immortal essence, creator of angels, of humans, and of all that exists. Have mercy upon Your Creatures and upon me, a great sinner....

AINA - Modesto,CA,USA
ROMA -- The island of Cyprus was the first destination of the "special mission" that the Holy Spirit entrusted to Paul and Barnabas, according to what is written in the Acts of the Apostles, in chapter 13.

On the island they found a Roman governor, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man who wanted to hear the word of God and believed, deeply shaken by the teaching of the Lord. ...

Interfax Russia - Moscow,Russia
ROME. March 31 (Interfax) - The cross and dome of the Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Catherine, currently under construction in Rome, were consecrated and ...

FrontPage magazine.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Abdul Rahman, the Afghani man who dominated headlines last week, has been safely spirited away to Italy. Rahman had been imprisoned and threatened with a death sentence for apostasy (i.e. converting from Islam to Christianity)....

Press & Sun-Bulletin - Binghamton,NY,USA
Beginning on Mother's Day 2004, a depiction of St. Anna, the mother of the Virgin Mary, inexplicably wept tears of myrrh, an aromatic resin.

The Rev. Igumen Athanasy Mastalski, pastor of a Russian Orthodox Church near Philadelphia who first witnessed the miracle, brought the religious icon to Johnson City on Thursday....

AKI - Rome,Italy
Istanbul, 29 March (AKI) - For the first time since the foundation of Turkey in 1923, the government is funding an ambitious project to renovate and restore non-Muslim places of worship, such as churches, monasteries and synagogues....