When the government announced an exposition of the sacred Tooth Relic after a lapse of 16 years, it may not have imagined that a mass exodus of people is likely to visit Kandy – a heavily congested ...

Sarito Carroll says kids were abandoned and abused at Rajneeshpuram. Decades later, she’s sharing her story and asking for ...

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The Times Opinion columnist discusses religion and belief — at this moment in our politics, and in our lives more generally.

A belief that Jesus travelled to India and adopted Buddhist teachings and methods has been around since at least the 19th Century when scholars attempted to explain the similarities between Christiani ...

Why Hindu extremists must stop the mindless violence against Christians in India now In 2010 I visited The Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata to pay homage at Mother Teresa39s tomb Along the road towa ...