カテゴリー: Religion
Commission says religious minorities face ‘increasing assault’ under Narendra Modi but state department unlikely to take actionA US government panel has called for India to be put on a religious freedom blacklist over a “drastic” downturn under the pri…
Lawyers say pair were peacefully protesting against Indian citizenship actDelhi police have been accused of slapping two Muslim student activists with “bogus” charges of conspiring to incite the recent riots, the worst religious violence in India’s cap…
President of world’s biggest Muslim-majority country takes action after survey showed millions still planned to travelIndonesia has banned an annual homecoming in which tens of millions of people travel to see their families for Eid-al-Fitr, fearing th…
India’s shutdown is catastrophic for Muslims driven from their homes by sectarian carnage and now without food or shelterAs the wealthy quaff wine in comfort, India’s poor are thrown to the wolvesIt wasn’t possible for Mohammed Idrish to watch Narendra…
Religious authorities around the world limit contact and close places of worshipCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIranian police have dispersed crowds who forced their way into two popular shrines soon after they were closed b…
Allegations mount that police in Indian capital incited and aided recent mob violence and failed to help Muslim victims On one side of the marketplace, it was carnage. As the Hindu mob descended, Muslim-owned stalls selling car parts were slowly reduce…
Police say local MP and news service face lawsuit over report that army’s artillery fire killed two Rohingya womenMyanmar’s police said the army had filed a lawsuit against Reuters news agency and a local lawmaker for criminal defamation, weeks after t…
One week after the Indian capital’s worst religious violence in years, displaced Muslims describe losing everythingAs Mohammad Arshad’s body was brought into the courtyard, his lifeless face covered in a white shroud, the wailing began. The 22-year-old…
The 76-year-old music virtuoso released his first record last year. He’s the last surviving practitioner of a 13th century tradition at risk of dying with himUstad Saami is a slightly built man with long graceful hands that sweep skywards and then down…
Violence in India’s capital has left more than 40 dead and hundreds injured after a Hindu nationalist rampage, stoked by the rhetoric of Narendra Modi’s populist governmentHe lay in a bloodied ball on the floor, but the baton blows kept on coming. As t…
The devotional singer is known to move audiences to a higher plane. Meeting her in Melbourne, Ben Eltham writes, time went ‘all bendy and loose’Sufi superstar Abida Parveen – a giant of world music – is an arresting presence. Dressed in flowing robes a…
Two dozen people have died and hundreds have been injured in India’s capital. The prime minister talks of peace and brotherhood, but he has led his country hereAs shocking as the outburst of hatred in Delhi has been, with the deadliest religious violen…
Clashes have been driven by a ruling party intent on painting its largely peaceful opponents as seditious sectariansSince Sunday violent mobs in north-east Delhi have killed 21 people including a police constable, injured hundreds of others, burned mot…
Authorities say move was to ‘seek blessings’ for train taking people to pilgrimage sitesIndian rail authorities allocated a berth on a train on Sunday for the Hindu god Shiva, raising eyebrows in a country led by Narendra Modi’s hardline Hindu national…
Database known as the ‘Karakax list’ shows people sent to internment camps for reasons such as ‘minor religious infection’Growing a beard, wearing a veil or accidentally visiting a foreign website were among the justifications for sending Uighurs to Ch…