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Parents insisting on vegan diet for kids may risk jail

If parliamentarian Elvira Savino has her way, Italian parents who insist on a vegan diet for their children will risk up...

11 Aug 2016 6:51 AM IST

Pope Francis at Auschwitz asks God to forgive ‘so much...

Pope Francis walks through the gate of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. Pope Francis...

30 July 2016 6:25 AM IST

Pope Benedict reveals how he stopped Vatican ‘gay lobby’

Former Pope Benedict says in his memoirs that no one pressured him to resign but alleges that a “gay lobby”...

2 July 2016 1:30 AM IST

Pope Francis (Photo: AP/ File)

Pope Francis faces flak for marriage remark

Pope Francis has said the “great majority” of Catholic marriages being celebrated today are invalid because...

18 Jun 2016 6:24 AM IST

Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn shows a copy of the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia . (Photo: AP)

Pope Francis signals Church rethink on divorce, no shift in line on...

Pope Francis on Friday called for a Church that was less strict and more compassionate towards “imperfect”...

9 April 2016 1:02 AM IST

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Want to be happy Head to Denmark

Denmark overtook Switzerland as the world’s happiest place, according to a report on Wednesday that urged nations...

17 March 2016 3:32 AM IST

‘Jews can be saved without conversion’

‘Jews can be saved without conversion’

Catholics should not try to convert Jews and should work with them to fight anti-Semitism, the Vatican said on Thursday...

11 Dec 2015 6:01 AM IST

Pope: As a boy I wanted to be a butcher

Pope: As a boy I wanted to be a butcher

Pope Francis, who has vowed to reform the Roman Catholic Church, making it leaner and simpler, has disclosed that as a...

7 Nov 2015 5:14 AM IST