カテゴリー: Religion
Exclusive: Politicians accuse China of organising a ‘Potemkin-style tour’ for Michelle BacheletA group of 40 politicians from 18 countries have told the UN high commissioner for human rights that she risks causing lasting damage to the credibility of h…
Gang who stole statues from Hindu temple in India return most items, with note saying they had suffered nightmaresA gang of thieves have returned more than a dozen idols they stole from an ancient Hindu temple in India, saying they had been haunted by …
Zen’s supporters fearful that a crackdown on churches in mainland China could spread to Hong KongThe activist Leung Wing-lai was in prison when he first met Cardinal Zen. In 2018, while Leung was serving a sentence for illegal assembly, Zen visited him…
The major landowner says it has been on the ‘other side of history’ and wants to honour treaty New Zealand’s presbyterian church will offer any future land sales to Māori iwi first, as the institution reckons with its role in colonisation and land conf…
The regime intensifies repression and suffering while failing to address the country’s urgent humanitarian needsTwo decades ago, photographs of blue burqas became perhaps the totemic image of life under the Taliban, as Afghan women’s rights were invoke…
First copy of the 1631 bible, which mistakenly reads ‘thou shalt commit adultery’, to be found in the southern hemisphereAn extremely rare medieval bible famous for an unfortunate error that encourages adultery has been discovered in New Zealand.The 16…
Explosion in Afghan capital is latest in string of attacks on civilians during RamadanA powerful explosion has killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, the latest of a series of attacks on civilian targets in Afghanistan …
Muhammad Razzaq says two armed men tied up and beat his staff and made off with 240 shalwar kameezGunmen have stolen more than 200 outfits made for the customers of a Pakistani tailor for the Eid al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of Ramadan.Muhammad R…
Election statement also calls for a special intake of Ukrainians and a wider reassessment of refugee policies Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGuardian Australia’s full federal election coverageGet our free news app; get our mo…
My friend Hashir Faruqi, who has died aged 92, was a scientist of Pakistani heritage who found his vocation as a journalist and community activist after settling in London in the early 1960s.He launched the bi-monthly Impact International magazine in 1…
The Indian journalist Rana Ayyub speaks about the campaign to silence her that has led to charges of sedition and ‘defaming Hindus’When I talked to the journalist Rana Ayyub in her Mumbai home last Wednesday she was calmer than she was when I had spoke…
Ahead of key Uttar Pradesh elections, state police accused of being ‘mercenaries’ of hardline Hindu nationalist government According to police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, it was suicide. The young Muslim man they had brought into their custod…
If BJP holds Uttar Pradesh it would bolster ruling party’s claim for third victory in 2024 parliamentary pollsIndia’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, has begun voting in the first of a series of local elections that will be a test of the popularity…
Unrest triggered when Karnataka state came down in favour of rightwing Hindu demands for headscarf banThe Indian state of Karnataka has shut its schools for three days after the regional government backed schools imposing a ban on hijabs, leading to wi…
Muslim students outraged at what they say is increasing persecution by Hindu nationalist governmentAuthorities in southern India have ordered schools to shut as protests intensified over a ban on Islamic headscarves that has outraged Muslim students.Th…