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Selected religion-related news from around the Web
LA Times: For China, Jeremy Lin is an inspiration — to a point
When Guo Sicheng looks at American basketball sensation Jeremy Lin, he can almost see himself.
Times of India: Religious conversion stalls dead man's last rites
Burial or cremation? This is the conflict surrounding death of a man, who had converted into Islam, after entering into a relationship with a Muslim woman.
Straits Times: There's a difference between tradition and religion
IN 2007, there was a local Malay drama which featured a storyline about a Chinese convert who faced a dilemma when she had to fulfil her mother's dying wish.
AP: Orthodox Christian leader favors constitution promoting religious freedom in Turkey
The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians said Monday that Turkey’s new constitution should grant equal rights to minorities in the country and safeguard religious freedoms.
South China Morning Post: Catholics urged to shun chain stores
The Catholic church has launched a campaign in support of small businesses by encouraging people to give up relying on chain stores for Lent and support their local shopkeeper....
Newsweek: ‘Treason’ in Turkey
Turkey’s reform-minded Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is nothing like his iron-fisted Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin—right?
Wash. Post: Chinese blocked visit by U.S. religious freedom envoy, advocates say
Chinese officials denied a visa to a top State Department envoy and refused to meet with her to discuss issues of religious freedom days before this week’s high-profile visit to Washington by China’s vice president, according to rights advocates and others.
Korea Herald: Does Confucianism have a role in Korea today?
The teachings of Chinese philosopher Confucius have had a profound influence on South Korea. So much so, that the nation is sometimes referred to as the most Confucian society on earth.
Times of India: Rise of Islamism in Maldives a cause of worry for India
On May 27, 2009, a suicide attack on the ISI headquarters in Lahore had a relatively unknown bomber, Ali Jaleel, a Maldivian terrorist, who had joined al-Qaida some time earlier.
Economist: Render unto Caesar
THERE was a time when Devon Chang had difficulty reconciling his two chosen faiths: Christianity, which he embraced in 2005 at the age of 19, and the Communist Party of China, which had embraced him a year earlier.
AFP: Turkish PM criticized for 'religious youth' remark
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's comment his government wants to "raise a religious youth" has touched a nerve in society, fuelling debates over an alleged "hidden agenda" to Islamicize secular Turkey.
AP: Culture of silence keeps priest sex abuse under wraps in Asia, bishop tells Vatican conference
A culture of silence across Asia may be keeping many victims of clergy sex abuse there from coming forward, a top Asian church official told a Vatican-backed conference on Thursday.
Times of India: Trained in Pak jihad camps, ‘Masterji’ brainwashed youths
Indian Mujahideen ideologue Bashir Hasan alias Talha, popularly known as Masterji among its cadres, was a close associate of Safdar Nagori during their SIMI days.
Straits Times: Is Atheism Illegal in Indonesia?
After surviving a mob attack over a Facebook posting, 31-year-old Indonesian civil servant Alexander Aan was taken into custody by the West Sumatra police for his own safety.
AP: Turkey, an imperfect example for the region
For adversaries in a long-distance spat, they made an odd couple.
Guardian: Gandhi clan scours India's largest state for votes among Muslims and outcast
You can find the Islamic Centre of India in the Aishbagh neighbourhood of the north-eastern city of Lucknow, flanked by a Hindu temple and a wedding hall.
NYT: Teaching Tibetan ways, a school in China is an unlikely wonder
There are many marvels at the end of the punishing dirt road that skirts the edge of this stark white glacier high on the Tibetan plateau: thousands of fluttering crimson prayer flags, planted on the slopes by the religious faithful; wild goats scrambling across impossibly steep cliffs; and Buddhist monks meditating as they have for centuries in a place where newcomers find themselves gasping for air.
Morning Post: 'Gay cure' doctor faces complaint on conduct
A Hong Kong psychiatrist who claims to be able to "cure" gay people is the subject of a groundbreaking disciplinary complaint to the Medical Council.
Times of India: Look forward to the death of organized religion: Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins - scientist, bestselling author and the world's foremost atheist- comes across as mild-mannered and genial but doesn't believe in pulling his punches.
Times of India: Indian Christians fear backlash due to Sharia ruling
All India Christian Council in New Delhi on Friday feared backlash against Christians in the country due to incrimination of pastors Jim Borst and CM Khanna by Srinagar's self-styled Islamic Shariat court.
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