Letter sent to justice secretary by senior Catholic officials warns that residency test for legal aid will harm vulnerable peopleVictims of human trafficking and domestic abuse will be deprived of courtroom support under government proposals to make fu…
Ex-sec called to help police probe on missing gold
GEORGE TOWN: THE Penang Hindu Endowment Board (HEB) has asked its former secretary, R. Sivanathan, to help in police investigations over the disappearance of three gold bars from its office in Komtar. Deputy Chief Minister II and board chairman Dr P. …
EducationPlus career counselling this weekend
The Second Pre-University (PU) course exam results are out, but that is just the first hurdle that students have crossed. To help them with the next step, The Hindu EducationPlus Career Counselling 2013, which received an overwhelming response at six c…
Letters: Gay marriages and straight civil partnerships
Why is the government time-wasting over extending civil partnerships to opposite-sex couples (Report, 21 May)? Why this obsession with marriage at the expense of – to some of us – the much more enlightened civil partnership? With successive governm…
Former Hindu at Faith Fellowship
Jonathan Maraj of Darjeeling, West Bengal, India, will be holding special meetings Saturday night and Sunday morning at Faith Fellowship in Osceola.Maraj was born into a high-caste Hindu home on the island of Trinidad in the West Indies. He has spent t…
An Unheralded Breakthrough The Rosetta Stone of Mathematics
There is no Nobel Prize in mathematics, but in 2001 the Norwegian government established a million-dollar Abel Prize, which is widely considered as an equivalent of the Nobel for …
Why we’ll never have total religious freedom | Andrew Brown
The state department report on religious freedom highlights much that is bad, but to dream of tolerant rationality is unrealisticThe US state department has just released its annual review of religious freedom around the world. Eight countries are mark…
10-years imprisonment for abuser priest
A retired Diocese of Chichester clergyman has been found guilty by a jury at Lewes Crown Court of 36 counts of sexual abuse committed against 16 young girls and boys in their early teens over an 11-year period between 1962 and 1973. On 20 May 2013 the …
Church U-turn on civil partnerships
AS MPS VOTED on the Third Reading on the same-sex marriage bill the Church of England issued a briefing paper to supplement the briefing produced for the Second Reading in February. The new briefing paper stresses that the Church’s opposition is base…
Syrian bishops kidnapped in Aleppo still missing one month on
Officials say whereabouts of Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos Yazigi remain unknown despite international efforts to secure releaseOne month after two Orthodox Christian bishops were kidnapped by gunmen in Syria, officials say they still have no idea what ha…
How to deal with Tunisia’s Salafists | Sherelle Jacobs
Ennahda’s crackdown could be smarter, integrating moderates and reserving tough stuff for those who back domestic terrorCritics of Tunisia’s moderate Islamist government, led by the Ennahda party, have in the past chided it for being a soft touch with …
