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May 21, 2012 - The Times of India
Times of India: Uttar Pradesh may give inheritance rights to Muslim women
Muslim women may finally get their due share in family inheritance.
May 21, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Opinion: No model for Muslim democracy
It is fashionable these days for Western leaders to praise Indonesia as a model Muslim democracy. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has declared, “If you want to know whether Islam, democracy, modernity and women’s rights can coexist, go to Indonesia.”
May 19, 2012 - The Observer
Observer: Christians and Muslims unite in new bid to silence Lady Gaga
Christian groups in the Philippines have called for a ban on Lady Gaga's Manila concerts, alleging that her song Judas is an offensive mockery of Jesus Christ.
May 18, 2012 - Straits Times
Straits Times: Using religion to play hardball
In a speech before thousands of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) faithful gathered at the Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta in July last year to celebrate the organisation's 85th anniversary, NU chairman Said Aqil Siradj reiterated an important message.
May 15, 2012 - The Korea Times
Korea Times: Is taxing religion an act of blasphemy?
The gambling scandal shadowing the country’s largest Buddhist order has triggered debate on whether the government should collect taxes from temples, churches and religious organizations.
May 15, 2012 - The Times of India
Times of India: Hospitals eye 'halal' certification to attract patients from Middle East
There are two things that worry almost every patient from Islamic countries who come to Indian hospitals: the meat they eat and the direction of Mecca. With more than 75% of the medical tourists being from the Middle East, hospitals are eyeing 'halal' certification to make them feel at home.
May 12, 2012 - The Economist
Economist: The sword and the word
IT SEEMED historic. Muslim scholars, 170 in number and representing nine schools of legal thought (including four main Sunni ones and two Shia), gathered in Amman and declared that, whatever their differences, they accepted the others’ authority over their respective flocks.
May 11, 2012 - The New York Tiems
NYT: Iran presses for official to be next leader of Shiites
As the top spiritual leader in the Shiite Muslim world, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has instructed his followers on what to eat and how to wash, how to marry and to bury their dead.
May 10, 2012 - South China Morning Post
Morning Post: God helped me escape, says Chen
Recounting his daring escape from house arrest, blind activist Chen Guangcheng - on his hospital bed in Beijing - said he still could not believe his luck.
May 10, 2012 - The Times of India
Times of India: Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments, Srirangam mutt spar over burial spot of dead seer
The body of Lakhsmana Narayana seer of Srirangam Balahari Purushothama Ramanuja mutt, who passed away in Kolkata on May 6, created a flutter in Srirangam on Wednesday over a dispute whether the mortal remains could be buried inside the mutt.
May 09, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Pious Turks push for labor justice
For the Turkish youths who set out to change the world last week, May Day began with prayers.
May 07, 2012 - The Times of India
Times of India: Cong leaders pitch for reservations for Muslims
In a bid to win the confidence of the state's Muslim community, senior state and national Congress leaders participated in a two-day conference on education organized by the All India Muslim Educational Society here.
May 06, 2012 - The Korea Herald
Korea Herald: Buddhist order protests state ownership of relic
The Jogye Order, Korea’s largest Buddhist sect, on Friday protested the planned donation of a missing relic to the government.
May 03, 2012 - The Australian
Australian: Senator caught in Muslim slur row
A MALAYSIAN newspaper has quoted independent senator Nick Xenophon as declaring Islam is a "criminal organisation", after it misreported excerpts of a parliamentary speech in which the South Australian MP attacked the Church of Scientology.
May 03, 2012 - The Guardian
Guardian: Indonesia's atheists face battle for religious freedom
When Alex Aan picked up a copy of Karen Armstrong's Holy War from his local library in west Sumatra in 2005, he had little inkling of his own religious battle to come.
May 03, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Texas pastor drives support for Chinese dissident
Only a few hours after blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng left his sanctuary in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and the United States' declared it had won concessions over his future from the Chinese government, a soft-spoken 44-year-old West Texas pastor was questioning the official version of events.
April 29, 2012 - The Canadian Press
Canadian Press: Tamils in limbo after crackdown in Thailand
All wars cause collateral damage. Vashni is collateral damage in Canada’s war on human smugglers.
April 27, 2012 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Dalai Lama mocks China’s interest in naming his successor
In the political dispute over the future of Tibet, the reincarnation of a spiritual leader – the Dalai Lama – looms as the focal point of a tug-of-war with Beijing.
April 25, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: A local link for overseas students
Tom Zhou arrived from Beijing three years ago to attend Chinese Christian High School here.
April 25, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Women see worrisome shift in Turkey
Gokce, a soft-spoken 37-year-old mother of two, has lived on the run for 15 years, ever since her husband broke down a door and shot her in the leg six times after she refused to return to him.
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