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President Jokowi meets church leaders

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) met Christian leaders from the Communion of Indonesian (Protestant) Churches (PGI) and ...

Mother Teresa of Calcutta to be made Saint

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the Nobel laureate known for dedicating her life to helping the poorest of the poor, will ...

Minister kicks off pilgrimage tourism promotion

Tourism Minister Arief Yahya kicked off activities to promote pilgrimage tourism which has so far not been optimally ...

Pope met secretly in US with anti-gay marriage clerk

A US county clerk who refused in the name of her faith to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples said she ...

Religious affairs minister invites Pope Francis to visit Indonesia

Indonesias minister of religious affairs Lukman Hakim Saifuddin has invited Pope Francis to visit the country to ...

Mass for Mary Jane facing execution

Catholics in Magelang, Central Java, held mass for Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, a death row convict from the Philippines ...

Kazakhstan invites Indonesia to World Religious Leaders` Congress

Kazakhstan has invited Indonesia to the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions to be held in Kazakh ...

Pope to visit Sri Lanka despite Rajapakse defeat

The Catholic church Friday reiterated that Pope Francis will go ahead with his visit to Sri Lanka next week despite ...

Pope says it is wrong to equate Islam with violence

Pope Francis said on Sunday that equating Islam with violence was wrong and called on Muslim leaders to issue a global ...

Council authorizes religion to decide on interfaith marriage

The Central Council of Religions (MATP) has agreed to give the authority to each religion to decide regulations on ...

Religious leaders call for end to differences after election

Religious leaders have called for an immediate end to political differences soon after the election is over citing ...

Obama says more work needed to achieve ideals from King`s `Dream` speech

The United States is struggling to realize the vision that civil rights leader Martin Luther King described in his ...

"Careerism Is A Leprosy": Pope's Comment Dismays WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination

-     WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination and Nippon Foundation Chairman Yohei Sasakawa ...

Church leaders denounce violence in Timika

The Catholic churches of the Timika Diocese, Papua, strongly denounce recent spate of violence in the district lately. ...

New Pope slips out of Vatican for morning prayer visit

Pope Francis, barely 12 hours after his election, quietly left the Vatican early on Thursday to pray for guidance at a ...