カテゴリー: Religion
Anger grows across country at new law which denies citizenship to Muslim migrantsStudents in Delhi have condemned their “barbaric” treatment at the hands of police who stormed a peaceful protest against the new citizenship bill over the weekend, injuri…
Protests are most significant show of dissent in nearly six years of Modi in powerStudent protests are not unusual in India. Nor is police violence. But the scenes of officers entering one of Delhi’s Muslim-majority universities, teargassing the librar…
Criticism of Aung San Suu Kyi’s defence of her country must not overshadow the issue at the heart of the case at the international court of justice: the ongoing suffering of Rohingya MuslimsAung San Suu Kyi’s decision to personally defend Myanmar in th…
Bill will allow refugees from nearby states to become Indian but not if they are MuslimsIndian lawmakers have approved legislation granting citizenship to migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan – but not if they are Muslim. Critics of the g…
In response to a report that a Hindu guru had a established his own island off the coast of Ecuador, Ambassador Jaime Marchan Romero clarifies that no individual would ever be allowed to annex off land from a sovereign stateWith regard to your report o…
Thousands of buffalo will be slaughtered in Hindu festival despite efforts to end traditionHindu worshippers have begun killing thousands of buffalo in what is reputed to be the world’s biggest animal sacrifice, held every five years in a remote corner…
Police ‘looked on and watched’ during assault as activists tried to enforce right to visit shrineFemale activists in India were violently attacked by protesters and stopped by police as they attempted to make a pilgrimage to a Hindu temple which was co…
Pontiff urges disarmament as he tours Japan’s atomic bomb sites and meets survivors of the 1945 attacksPope Francis has condemned the “unspeakable horror” of nuclear weapons during a visit to Nagasaki, one of two Japanese cities destroyed by American a…
Feroz Khan flees after Hindu nationalist group says: ‘A Muslim cannot teach us our religion’A Muslim scholar of Sanskrit has gone into hiding after protests from some rightwing Hindu students claiming that, as a Muslim, he cannot teach Sanskrit, the an…
Pope Francis arrives in Bangkok to boost morale of tiny minority of Catholics and speak about human trafficking Continue reading…
Voters choose a new president this weekend on the Indian Ocean island. If they opt for the Rajapaksa family it augurs badlyThere are worse things than disappointment, as Sri Lankans may find out when they go to the polls on Saturday. The 2015 president…
Voters choose a new president this weekend on the Indian Ocean island. If they opt for the Rajapaksa family it augurs badlyThere are worse things than disappointment, as Sri Lankans may find out when they go to the polls on Saturday. The 2015 president…
India’s supreme court has ruled that a Hindu temple can be built on the country’s most hotly contested religious site, ending a legal dispute that has run for decades between Hindus and Muslims.The restoration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya was a key ple…
Supreme court says five acres where mosque was torn down in 1992 should become site of Hindu temple, with Muslims given other landThe Indian supreme court has ruled that India’s most hotly contested piece of religious land rightfully belongs to Hindus,…
Supreme court says five acres where mosque was torn down in 1992 should become site of Hindu temple, with Muslims given other landThe Indian supreme court has ruled that India’s most hotly contested piece of religious land rightfully belongs to Hindus,…