The Buddhist spiritual leader is 75-year-old today. Contrary to rumours that said he was ill, the Dalai Lama met the faithful gathered in front of his monastery. Speaking to AsiaNews, Tibet’s prime minister-in-exile calls on Pope Benedict to pray for his people, adding that Beijing fears the Dalai Lama, which is why it is oppressing Tibet.
The victim is a college professor who "insulted Muhammad" in an exam questionnaire. Islamic extremism is growing in Kerala: many schools face pressures on the use of the veil. The condemnation of national Muslim organizations. Sajan K. George: Sharia is not law in India.
Some 40 children going to their residential school in Indore District are stopped and interrogated. For the archbishop of Bhopal, there are many anti-Christian Hindu extremists in Madhya Pradesh, but at least the government helps Christians.
The three religious experts had been bribed by their husbands to emit divorce sentences, unbeknownst to the women. Nishat Fatima launches an appeal "Muslim women raise your voice before it is too late".
According to Lenin Raghuvanshi, “Human rights and democracy do not exist in a vacuum, in a value-neutral space. Denying the identity, culture and history of a society is a violation of secularism and human rights.”
A man and woman of different castes commit suicide because their marriage "is impossible." 24 year old girl throws herself from the 28th floor of a building after the torture suffered at the hands of her husbands and in-laws who demand the payment of a dowry.
Hosur police arrested extremists in connection with violence during a Pentecostal convention. Police opens a file against person or persons unknown.
Indian Church is worried about the draft bill. A new law on assisted procreation could give singles, gay and heterosexual, an opportunity to have children. “A child’s biological nature is in the hands of God, not science,” Card Varkey Vithayathil says.
Images by unknown “artists” appeared last Friday in the city of Shillong, eastern India, under the status of Saint John Bosco, which is located in front of a Salesian school, and on the walls of another school building. Graffiti depict Pope and Jesus as ‘Wanted’ fugitives, with the sentence ‘Arrest this man’ underneath. Meghalaya State governor is also insulted. “Such blasphemous actions have deeply wounded our religious sentiments,” Shillong archbishop says.
For Ibrahim Musliyar Bekal, the dowry system, the ban on married women working, and frequent desertion by husbands explain indigence in Muslim communities.
About 40,000 signatures have been collected around the world to demand the Chinese government to release immediately the Tibetan monk. A “defender of Tibetan culture, religion and freedom, he was sentenced to death in 2002on the basis of false charges. The sentence was eventually commuted to life in prison.
India’s federal Home Affairs minister is seeking quick approval for the Communal Violence Bill, which will impose harsher penalties on those guilty of stoking inter-religious conflict. However, Fr C. Prakash, a front-line minority rights advocate, opposes the draft proposal because it does not prevent collusion between politicians and police in communal crimes.
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