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Kerala’s traditional churches can’t be blamed for thinking the world is coming to an end. Hundreds of independent fellowship churches (IFC) – and their number is rapidly growing – have resulted in dwindling flocks at traditional churches.
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Following the victory of the Congress Party at the 2004 Parliamentary elections in India, Sonia Gandhi surprised everybody by renouncing the position of Prime Minister. The following analysis by an Indian political scientist, Pralay Kanungo, shows how her decision, and the controversy that preceded it, were intimately related to the background of Indian religious worldviews.
Pralay Kanungo is Associate Professor in Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He taught at Delhi University and was a Fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. His publications include RSS’s Tryst with Politics: From Hedgewar to Sudarshan (New Delhi: Manohar, 2002).
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Parsis, who came to India in the 8th century fleeing Muslim persecution in then Persia, may be heading for slow extinction, and officials warn this can only be checked if the community produces more children. According to the census, as of 2001 the Parsi population in India is 69,601, nearly 7,000 less than that exactly 10 years ago.
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Railway Minister Lalu Prasad is reportedly working on plans to connect all important Buddhist shrines across India through modern and sophisticated rail links with Japanese assistance.
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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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The US is providing funds to a voluntary agency working to improve and modernise teaching in Islamic seminaries that mostly impart only religious lessons.
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The mysterious killings of 18 sadhus over 12 months in an Uttar Pradesh district have baffled officials and spread panic among ascetics staying in temples.
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Fourteen years after godman Rajneesh aka Osho’s death, a Nepalese disciple who spread the movement in this Himalayan kingdom plans to focus on India, the goal being an Osho centre in each village.
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Encouraged by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) victory in the assembly poll, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has launched a fresh drive against Christian missionaries and conversions in Chhattisgarh.
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“I am convinced the Mizos are Jews. There are lots of similarities between Israelis and Mizos,” said Rabbi Hannock Avizedek, an Israeli preacher who is in Aizawl for the past three months, teaching Hebrew to some 400 people daily.
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