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A joint study involving Queen’s University and the University of Ulster has found a dramatic decrease in church attendance in Ireland, reports the “Belfast Telegraph”.
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From Baku to Dushanbe, anger and frustration is growing over government curbs on the Muslim headscarf. The Tajik education ministry announced October 19 it had banned the hijab at all secular schools. In Azerbaijan, thousands of women have been deprived of political and civil rights as the result of a divisive law banning women from wearing the head scarf in photographs on all identity documents.
Shirin Azizmamadova is the pseudonym of an independent journalist in Dushanbe. Zarema Velikhanova in an independent journalist in Baku.
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The first Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Buddhist chaplains appointed by the British army to cater to the spiritual needs of soldiers from the minority religions have taken up their posts. The number of soldiers following these religions is low, but officials believe that a beginning has been made and that the appointment of the four chaplains will encourage more youngsters from these religions to join the armed forces.
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A Christian’s presence in a Hindu temple in Kerala prompted the priests here to repeat all the rituals to keep the sanctity of the offerings intact.
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One of Southern California’s largest churches has been warned that it is at risk of losing its tax-exempt status because of an antiwar sermon given two days before the 2004 presidential election.
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An American woman who claimed she had converted to Hindusim but was denied entry into the ‘Hindu-only’ Lingaraj temple in the Orissa capital, said she would continue her struggle to seek entry even as the Congress and a major Hindu group announced support for her.
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Royal Mail’s refusal to withdraw a controversial stamp that allegedly insults Hinduism has prompted new ways of protest – Hindu leaders here have called for clogging the postal system with letters without stamps. The stamp allegedly features two Hindus with ’tilak’ marks worshipping the infant Jesus Christ. The demand from the Hindu Forum of Britain to withdraw the stamp from circulation has been turned down.
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When Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives here Sunday, he is likely to see a lot of smiles on the faces of local Hindus and Sikhs who are excited at the rebuilding of seven gurdwaras destroyed in Afghanistan’s civil war. After considerable delay, the authorities have cleared the gurdwaras of both encroachers and rubble.
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When he steps out of the Bhopal Central Jail after completing his sentence for murder, Dinesh Tiwari hopes to become a priest for which he is being trained at the prison. Authorities at the jail in the Madhya Pradesh capital have started a programme to train Brahmin Hindu inmates in religious rituals as part of steps by the Bharatiya Janata Party government to reform prisoners.
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If children love hot dogs, pizzas, chocolates and cola, surely their goddess too will like these. That’s exactly the thought behind these unusual offerings made by devotees at a temple of Jivantika Mata, a goddess of children, according to the Hindu scriptural text Skanda Purana.
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