カテゴリー: Religion
Allegations against Wasim Jaffer of favouritism raise fears that anti-Muslim sentiment is infecting the gameIt is often described as India’s greatest unifier, a sport that – at least on the field – has been insulated from the religious schisms that hav…
Criticism follows release of 29-year-old who kept girl chained in cattle pen, in latest case highlighting abuses of religious minoritiesThe family of a 12-year-old girl in Pakistan who was chained up in a cattle pen for more than six months, after alle…
Muslim Council of Great Britain brings case against policy preventing burials on unproven health groundsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA group of Muslim families are launching a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee (H…
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey and Labour MP Chris Bryant urge officials and athletes to protest against oppression of Uighur communitiesSenior political figures have called for British athletes to boycott next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing in response to…
UK community speaks out in effort to pressure government to take stronger stanceLeading figures in the UK Jewish community are using Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January to focus on the persecution of Uighur Muslims, saying Jews have the “moral authori…
Sarmad Khoosat was the darling of Pakistan’s entertainment industry until his new film, the haunting and elegiac Zindagi Tamasha, fell foul of fundamentalists – who called for him to be beheadedSarmad Khoosat was having an early morning cigarette in Bu…
Defeated measure aimed to give high court more power to protect minorities such as China’s UighursThe government has narrowly defeated a move requiring the government to reconsider any trade deal with a country found by the high court to be committing …
Activists will write to companies in bid to persuade them to use their influence with Chinese governmentCampaigners fighting against the persecution of Uighur Muslims in China are to target private companies sponsoring the Beijing Winter Olympics in an…
Millions more expected to descend on Haridwar in coming weeks for Kumbh Mela despite pandemic Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageUp to a million Hindu pilgrims have gathered on the banks of the River Ganges in northern India, m…
Advocacy group Open Doors says hardline regimes across world exploit pandemicCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePersecution of Christians around the world has increased during the Covid pandemic, with followers being refused ai…
Minister from Hindu nationalist BJP says schools should be producing Muslim professional workers, rather than future imamsAn Indian state ruled by Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party has passed a law abolishing all Islamic schools, saying they prov…
Country insists all people who die of virus are cremated even if it violates religious beliefsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Muslim Council of Britain is launching a legal challenge to the Sri Lankan government’s policy…
Crowds reportedly led by Islamic clerics attempt to destroy ancient shrine in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regionA violent religious mob has set fire to a Hindu temple in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region and attempted to tear it to the ground.Crowds of thous…
Rahima Mahmut and Rose Harvie add their voices to that of the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, in urging readers to take action to put pressure on China The moving call to arms by the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, challenges us all to speak out against what…
Court expected to rule there is still insufficient evidence against China, but file to be kept openThe International Criminal Court (ICC) has asked for more evidence before it will be willing to open an investigation into claims of genocide against Uig…