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A controversy is brewing in Kerala over Muslim woman students offering prayers at a college mosque. Every Friday many Muslim students at the Unity Women’s College at Manjeri in Malappuram district pray at the shrine. But now the Samastha Kerala Sunni Students Federation (SKSSF) says the practice of women offering Friday prayers inside a mosque is against Islam.
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Ritualistic killing of animals has returned to Tamil Nadu despite a law against it with devotees sacrificing more than 200 buffaloes in a temple, 600 km south of Chennai (formerly Madras).
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The Sikhs love to say “Raj karega Khalsa!” – which translates into “Sikhs shall rule!” On Saturday, the dreams of millions of Sikhs around the world came true when Manmohan Singh was sworn in India’s prime minister, becoming the first from the community to rule any country.
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Wigs made from the hair of Hindu women from India are not kosher, an ultra-conservative rabbi has ruled, sparking a wave of wig burning by the Jewish community across the world.
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has practically ruled out the possibility of a compromise to include a reference to Europe’s Christian heritage in the EU constitution.
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A leading expert on political Islam contends the Bush administration is undermining its own democratization efforts in the Middle East and Central Asia through its inability to distinguish between “international jihadism” and “Islamo-nationalist” struggles.
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Prominent Israeli rabbis are speaking out against Israel’s alliance with evangelical Christians in the United States who have funnelled tens of millions of dollars to Zionist causes.
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“Concern and hope” is how Dutch bishops sum up the Church’s situation in their country. In a report presented during their five-yearly visit to the Vatican, entitled The Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands at the Start of a New Millennium, the prelates paint a sobering picture.
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Following the violence in March, “no formal indictment has been raised against any person for the organisation of the pogrom,” Fr Sava (Janjic), deputy abbot of the Decani Monastery in western Kosovo, told Forum 18 News Service.
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The Communist party-state remains determined to maintain control over society, using over the past 20 years an increasing number of laws and regulations as a means to this end. There is a complex web of laws and regulations on religion.
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