Arrests over India church attacks
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Arrests over India church attacks
India: Hindu extremists Burn One Nun Alive
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India: Hindu extremists Burn One Nun Alive
BUBANESHWAR (AsiaNews) – A Catholic nun was burnt alive by a group of Hindu fundamentalists who stormed the orphanage she ran in the district of Bargarh (Orissa), this according to Police Superintendent Ashok Biswall.
BUBANESHWAR (AsiaNews) – A Catholic nun was burnt alive by a group of Hindu fundamentalists who stormed the orphanage she ran in the district of Bargarh (Orissa), this according to Police Superintendent Ashok Biswall.
India gets IAEA pass for global N-trade
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Vienna: The India-US civil nuclear deal Friday cleared its first global test as the 35-member board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) unanimously approved the India-specific safeguards agreement, a key step towards readmitting New Delhi into the privileged world of nuclear commerce.
Poor India makes millionaires at fastest pace
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WASHINGTON: India, with the world's largest population of poor people living on less than a dollar a day, also paradoxically created millionaires at the fastest pace in the world in 2007 even though the world grew such "high net worth individuals (HNWIs)" at the slowest pace in four years.
Henry Chadwick, renowned Christian scholar, dead at 87
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LONDON
— The Rev. Henry Chadwick, a Church of England priest and renowned scholar of the early centuries of Christianity, has died at age 87.
Rev. Chadwick died Tuesday at a hospital in Oxford, his family said. The cause of death was not announced.