His funeral is being held on Saturday in St. Peter’s Square. Francis will then be buried, according to his will: in a simple underground tomb at St. Mary Major Basilica. The church is home to his ...

This Mother's Day, reflect on how much of your Indian identity comes from your mother's quiet preservation of culture through ...

Filippo Sorcinelli is the queer designer behind the Pope’s garments. Not only is he openly gay, but his public image is ...

KADAPA: Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu and his wife Bhuvaneswari on Friday offered silk robes (pattu vastrams) to Sri ...

Albanian communities of Sicily, known as Arbëreshë, still celebrate Easter following their traditional Byzantine rites.

Later, speaking to the media, Mr. Nataraj Bhagavath said that the Brahmins wear the sacred thread at the time of the initiation ceremony (Upanayana) and marriage. “We are not supposed to remove ...

A controversy has erupted over the alleged denial of entry for a student to write the Common Entrance Test (CET) wearing his ‘janivara’ (‘sacred thread’) at Sai Spoorthy College ...

The sacred thread, worn by many Hindus, is an important religious symbol. In Shivamogga, one student resisted the demand to remove his sacred thread, while another student's thread was cut by ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Bengaluru, April 21 (IANS) Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar slammed the authorities on Monday over the sacred thread removal row, saying that it is 'very wrong to ...

maths paper for coming to the examination hall wearing a janivara (sacred thread). A district commissioner's report revealed that the exam staff at Bidar's Sai Spoorthi PU College had mistaken the ...

Hubballi/ Kalaburagi: Union minister Pralhad Joshi condemned the removal of a ‘janivara' (sacred thread) from a student attending the CET, stating that it was an attack on people's beliefs.