カテゴリー: Religion
Controversy in West Bengal centres around Akbar and Sita, named for a Hindu deity, being placed in the same enclosureAn Indian Hindu nationalist organisation has launched a court petition to stop two lions named after a Hindu deity and a 16th-century M…
Bangladeshi residents and others in Monfalcone say decisions to prohibit worship at cultural centres and banning burkinis at the beach is part of anti-Islam agendaThe envelope containing two partially burned pages of the Qur’an came as a shock. Until t…
Fears decision on Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi could increase religious tensions and inspire more claimsAn Indian court has ruled that Hindus can worship inside a contested mosque, a verdict that it is feared will increase religious tensions and galvani…
The inauguration of the temple erased divisions between politics and religion in a theoretically secular stateMonday’s inauguration of the new Ram Mandir in Ayodhya by India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, was a moment decades in the making. Yet it al…
India’s prime minister inaugurated a new temple at the site of a demolished 16th-century mosque that was torn down by a mob of Hindu nationalists. Babri Masjid was destroyed in 1992 during a rampage that killed 17 people in the city of Ayodhya. The new…
Built on the site of a razed mosque, the Ram temple represents the culmination of the Hindu right’s century-long projectMukul Kesavan is a writer based in DelhiThe inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, the small north Indian city that Hindus belie…
Narendra Modi hails controversial opening as fulfilment of ‘dream that many have cherished for years’More than three decades after a mob of militant Hindu radicals razed a mosque to the ground in the Indian town of Ayodhya, the country’s prime minister…
Three members of a family receive notices from police amid concern about separatist campaigners’ safetySikhs in the West Midlands have been issued “threat to life” warnings, amid growing concern about the safety of separatist campaigners who Sikhs clai…
Modi government’s consecration of Ram Mandir on eve of elections denounced by oppositionAmid the deafening roar of construction and exuberant cries of visiting devotees, the outlines of India’s largest Hindu temple are gradually emerging.For now, Ram M…
Annapoorani: the Goddess of Food criticised for depiction of deity and member of vegetarian caste cooking and eating meatNetflix is embroiled in a backlash in India from rightwing Hindu groups over a film accused of offending religious sentiments for i…
Avtar Singh Khanda’s death coincided with alleged Indian plots to kill Sikh activists in North AmericaUK politics live – latest updatesA senior Conservative MP has written to the home secretary expressing his concern over the sudden death of a Sikh act…
Concerns raised over what a third term for Narendra Modi would mean for the country amid rising Hindu-Muslim tensionIndia’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has cut a confident figure in recent weeks. As his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) swept three major…
Exclusive: Study published in 2019 used blood and saliva samples from 203 Uyghur and Kazakh people living in Xinjiang capitalConcerns have been raised that academic publishers may not be doing enough to vet the ethical standards of research they publis…
And churches used to dwindling congregations are delighted to see numbers boosted by worshippers of all agesFather Happy Jacob has a reason to be cheerful. When he started St Thomas’s Indian Orthodox Church in Liverpool in 2002, his congregation number…