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- Indian police told to shoot religious rioters
- BHUBANESWAR, India AFP — Indian police were ordered to shoot on sight to end Hindu-Christian clashes on Wednesday as Pope Benedict XVI "firmly condemned" violence that has killed at least nine people. Parts of eastern Orissa state have been rocked by Hindu-Christian clashes since Saturday, when a popular hardline...
- Research articles 2008-08-27
- Gujarat Muslims fear Hindu backlash after bombings
- AHMEDABAD, India AFP — With the city of Ahmedabad hit by blasts claimed by a little-known Islamist group, the spectre of a fresh outbreak of communal violence or revenge attacks on Muslims is at the forefront of concerns. After serial bombings killed dozens of people Muslim housewife Tahira Bi...
- Research articles 2008-07-27
- Curfew imposed in parts of Indian Kashmir
- SRINAGAR, India AFP — Authorities in Indian Kashmir on Thursday widened a curfew in the region to prevent protests by Hindus angered by the revocation of a land transfer order to a Hindu pilgrims' trust, officials said. Jammu, the region's second biggest city, was hit by violent protests by...
- Research articles 2008-07-03
- Freedom icon Gandhi's ashes scattered in Arabian Sea
- MUMBAI AFP — Ashes of India's freedom icon Mahatma Gandhi were scattered on Wednesday off the coast of Mumbai in a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of his assassination by a Hindu fanatic. A copper urn containing some of the ashes was opened and the ashes mixed with water...
- Research articles 2008-01-30
- Letter Mailed By The Filangieri Society for Justice and Good Government to Voters in Gary Ackerman District Calling To Account His Vote Against Christmas and America's Judeo-Christian Roots
- NEW YORK -- The Filangieri Society for Justice and Good Government has written a letter to voters of New York's 5th Congressional District condemning Congressman Gary Ackerman's vote against Christmas and against Judeo-Christian roots. On December 11, 2007 the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed Resolution 847 recognizing the religious...
- Research articles 2008-01-07
- India's Hindu nationalists 'win' Gujarat poll
- NEW DELHI AFP — Controversial Hindu nationalist party leader Narendra Modi swept back to power in India's religiously divided Gujarat state Sunday in what was called a national victory over the rival Congress party. The Congress loss in the Hindu nationalist bastion, though widely expected, was its fourth setback...
- Research articles 2007-12-23
- Partying while Gujarat Burned
- A serious schism between India’s 900 million Hindus and 150 million Muslims would tear it apart. Making trouble in India is easy. The country is mined with multiple identities: caste, community, religion, language, class, ethnicity. Mismanaging one can set off an uproar, and politicians of every stripe repeatedly tease...
- Research articles 2007-12-03
- Religions and international poverty alleviation: the pluses and minuses.(Essay)
- Increasingly within the international development community and among religious organizations, it is argued that religious agencies offer something unique to development programs, especially to those designed to alleviate poverty. Generally, this comparative advantage is seen as forms of social capital. In fact, virtually all the world's...
- Research articles 2007-09-22
- Saffron fading; Indian politics.(India's opposition fares badly)
- The Hindu nationalists are struggling for leadership and direction WHEN a party dominated by dalits--those former wretches known as "untouchables"--swept to power in Uttar Pradesh UP on May 11th, the lamentable performance of India's ruling Congress party made headlines. Congress's campaign in UP had...
- Research articles 2007-05-26
- Citizens versus people: the politics of majoritarianism and marginalization in democratic India
- The United States and India are two countries distinguished by their interfaith relations, though one is lionized for its tolerant pluralism and the other lamented for its religious violence. As this suggests, there are various scenarios of inter-faith relations, especially in their relation to politics. Religion, by itself, does not...
- Research articles 2007-03-22
- Media frenzy as Hurley, Nayar tie knot in lavish Hindu ceremony
- JODHPUR, India AFP — British actress Elizabeth Hurley and her Indian husband Arun Nayar held a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony Friday as police clashed with crowds of paparrazi trying to snap the gala event. Journalists and onlookers were hurt in the melee as photographers, who have been kept away...
- Research articles 2007-03-09
- Protesters demand Nepal revert to Hindu state
- KATHMANDU AFP — Around 1,000 protesters have rallied in Nepal's capital to demand that the Himalayan nation revert to being a Hindu state after the government declared the country secular. Nepal was the world's only Hindu nation until the government made it a secular country last year following massive...
- Research articles 2007-02-17
- Massive Hindu festival underway in India
- ALLAHABAD, India AFP — More than a million Hindu pilgrims have plunged into the chilly Ganges river in northern India, hoping to wash away their sins and achieve immortality at the start of a huge religious festival. Naked sadhus, or holy men, blowing conch shells, whose bodies were smeared with...
- Research articles 2007-01-03
- Police reveal third sketch in India mosque blast probe
- MUMBAI AFP — Police have released the sketch of a third man wanted in connection with bomb blasts outside a mosque in western India that killed 31 and injured nearly 300. Officers said Monday they were looking into Hindu or Muslim extremist groups behind Friday's blasts but tests revealed an...
- Research articles 2006-09-11
- Police hunt for clues in India blasts
- MALEGAON, India AFP — Police are awaiting laboratory results after scouring bomb blast sites in a tense west Indian town to try to identify the group behind attacks on Muslim worshippers that killed 31. The attackers mounted bombs on bicycles that exploded as thousands of Muslims emerged from Friday prayers...
- Research articles 2006-09-09
- Six killed, ten wounded in Kashmir violence
- SRINAGAR, India AFP — Six people were killed in shootings and 10 wounded in a grenade attack on a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims in Indian Kashmir, police and the army has said as a group of a dozen Islamic militants gave themselves up to troops. Indian soldiers shot dead...
- Research articles 2006-07-31
- Thailand celebrates return of popular Hindu god statue
- BANGKOK AFP — Thousands of people carrying incense sticks and wearing flower garlands celebrated the return Sunday of a popular Hindu statue that was destroyed in March when a Muslim man attacked it with a hammer. Prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra joined the crowd at a ceremony to reinstall the...
- Research articles 2006-05-21
- Indian temple city cremates carnage victims, police fear more blasts
- VARANASI, India AFP — Grieving relatives of people killed in triple blasts in the temple town of Varanasi cremated their loved ones as police warned of attacks on other Hindu shrines in India. Men and women sobbed and topless priests read from Hindu scriptures on the banks of river...
- Research articles 2006-03-08
- Unknown Kashmir group claims blasts in Indian bomb city
- VARANASI AFP — A previously unknown Islamic militant group has claimed responsibility for blasts that killed 23 people in the Indian city of Varanasi as relatives cremated the dead. The group Lashkar-e-Kahar told a news agency in Indian Kashmir, where an Islamic revolt is raging against New Delhi's rule,...
- Research articles 2006-03-08
- Indian police gun down bomb suspect amid terror alert
- VARANASI, India AFP — Indian police shot dead an Islamic militant suspected of links to a triple bombing that killed 23 people in Hinduism's holy city of Varanasi and sparked a nationwide alert. Counter-terrorism forces gunned down the man just hours after the blasts, which also wounded 68 people,...
- Research articles 2006-03-07
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