カテゴリー: Religion
Fewer mosques in China’s western region than at any time since the Cultural Revolution, says thinktankThousands of mosques in Xinjiang have been damaged or destroyed in just three years, leaving fewer in the region than at any time since the Cultural R…
The west reduced tantra to a quest for sexual liberation and wellness. But a new show charts its darker depths – from avenging goddesses to blood-drinking and self-decapitationMake a cursory web search for the term tantra and you will be confronted wit…
Attacks against the Muslim minority in Myanmar have gone unchecked as regional players focus on their own interestsThe persecution, ethnic cleansing, and attempted genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine state is an affront to the rule of law…
Prominent rights campaigner held under anti-terrorism laws for alleged role in February’s deadly riotsA prominent student activist has been arrested for his alleged role in deadly riots in Delhi earlier this year, as police continue to round up anti-go…
Rather than rebuild the social fabric of his country during the coronavirus-driven economic slump, Narendra Modi has chosen to play identity politicsLast month Narendra Modi, India’s strongman prime minister, performed the religious rites to consecrate…
Chinese government threatened woman when she resisted in move to suppress Muslim minority birth ratesA teacher coerced into giving classes in Xinjiang internment camps has described her forced sterilisation at the age of 50, under a government campaign…
More than 90 people – the wounded, the mourning, the defiant – spoke at the sentencing hearing for the gunman responsible for New Zealand’s most deadly terrorist attack, explaining how the massacre changed their lives forever. Here we document their ev…
Mashal Naseem has got used to the death threats since she began campaigning for justice for her father, Tahir Ahmad Naseem, who was shot in a Pakistan courtroom last monthIt has only been a few weeks, but Mashal Naseem has already got used to shrugging…
Thousands of ritual statues are dunked into the sea off Mumbai each year – but coronavirus and pollution concerns are forcing change In the quiet housing estate of Angrewadi in the heart of Girgaon in south Mumbai, people are celebrating the 100th cons…
Delhi Riots 2020 claims violence was result of Muslim jihadist conspiracy but critics accuse publisher of censorshipBloomsbury India has pulled a controversial book claiming to tell the untold story of February’s Delhi riots, after the publisher was ac…
Heavily supervised visits to indoctrination centres present reporters with smiling inmates and tales of cultural acceptanceJournalist Sherif Sonbol was taking pictures of ethnic dancers during an official tour of China’s far western Xinjiang province w…
Statement signed by Rowan Williams, bishops, imams and rabbis says Chinese Muslim minority faces ‘human tragedy’Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury, is among more than 70 faith leaders publicly declaring that the Uighurs are facing “one…
An image in Times Square celebrated not only the construction of a Hindu temple but the destruction of a mosqueMussolini confided in his son that one of his nightmares was that he would be put on trial at New York’s Madison Square Garden, in case of ca…
A funeral, a family, and a journey into a disappearing religion. By Shaun Walker My grandfather had never been a tall man, and now he looked absurdly small, no bigger than a child. Swaddled in off-white sheets like a newborn, with just his head and the…