カテゴリー: Religion
Shutdown imposed as part of search for Amritpal Singh Sandhu, accused of disrupting communal harmonyEconomic life in the north Indian state of Punjab has been paralysed by an internet shutdown, affecting 30 million people, imposed as part of a huge man…
Temple in Taipei is believed to be the only Taoist site set up to revere rabbit god Tu’er Shen, a significant symbol for LGBTQI people in Taiwan and ChinaDuring a quiet mid-week afternoon on the eighth floor of an office building, A-wei is meditatively…
Nisar Ahmed was almost killed in the Delhi riots. But when he became a witness in court cases against the alleged perpetrators, he realised that was only the start of his troublesThis is how Nisar Ahmed remembers it. On 24 February 2020, at about three…
The prime minister’s cynical raids on the BBC are the latest populist clampdown on a press and broadcasting ‘elite’In January, the BBC broadcast a two-part series, India: The Modi Question, which looked forensically at the role of Narendra Modi in fome…
Killing is latest in string of mob attacks against people accused of blasphemy in Muslim-majority south Asian countryA mob in eastern Pakistan stormed a police station on Saturday and snatched a Muslim man accused of blasphemy from police custody and l…
The Indian prime minister’s attempts to suppress a critical BBC documentary show how sensitive he is to his international reputationThe clue to the Indian government’s thin-skinned response to the BBC’s two-part documentary, India: The Modi Question, i…
Father Joe arrived in Bangkok in the 1970’s. Fifty years, 15 schools and 30,000 students later, he credits the community with saving him“This other priest is always drunk, so you go take his place.”With that simple instruction, Joseph H Maeir, a Cathol…
Eight-year-old daughter of wealthy gem dealer follows family’s Jain faith to enter strict religious orderAn eight-year-old girl in India who was due to inherit a multimillion-dollar diamond fortune has instead been admitted as a nun to a strict religio…
Unification church’s links to ruling Liberal Democrat politicians have led to controversy over donations and mistrust of partyIn the days after Shinzo Abe was shot dead last summer while making an election campaign speech, commentators struggled to art…
Osel Hita Torres joined a monastery after the Dalai Lama declared him a reincarnated spiritual leader, but at 18 he broke free and moved to Ibiza. A new TV series tells his storyAt the age of 14 months, Osel Hita Torres was recognised by the Dalai Lama…
Reconstruction minister quits amid accusations of election law violations and ties to Unification churchJapan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has ended the year facing fierce political headwinds after his reconstruction minister became the fourth memb…
Report finds stock indexes provided by MSCI include companies using forced labour or constructing surveillance state in XinjiangMany of the world’s largest asset managers and state pension funds are passively investing in companies that have allegedly …
Makers of Bollywood film say it is based on real information and events but have not provided any evidencePolice in Kerala are investigating a controversial Bollywood film that portrays the southern Indian state as a hub of Islamic terrorism and forced…
Shamsi Jama Masjid, an 800-year-old mosque in Uttar Pradesh, is the latest flashpoint in a dispute that could eventually turn violentIn a small, darkened office in Budaun, where dusty legal books line the walls, two lawyers have fallen into a squabble….
We should quickly abandon wishful thinking in order to be truly ready for Rishi SunakThe world has watched in appalled fascination as the UK’s ruling party scrapes the bottom of its human resources barrel: it found there its first Black chancellor of t…