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May 06, 2011 - Reuters
Reuters: Pious Indians bank on holy deposits
In a bank with no security gates, guards or locks, deposits from thousands of customers from across India are stacked on shelves, protected from theft by the grace of God.
April 27, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Exiled Tibetan community gets new prime minister after Dalai Lama gives up political roles
A Harvard legal scholar has been elected the next prime minister of Tibet's government-in-exile, officials announced Wednesday, paving the way for new leadership in the Tibetan community as the Dalai Lama gives up political power.
April 27, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: India puts tight leash on internet free speech
Free speech advocates and Internet users are protesting new Indian regulations restricting Web content that, among other things, can be considered “disparaging,” “harassing,” “blasphemous” or “hateful.”
April 26, 2011 - The Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph: Indian guru had followers in many nations
Sathya Sai Baba, who died on Sunday, probably aged 84, was India's most famous, and most controversial, Swami or holy man, and one of the most enigmatic and remarkable religious figures of the last century.
April 25, 2011 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Beijing police detain group of Christians
Police in Beijing detained more than 30 evangelical Christians as they attempted to gather outdoors for Easter services and confined about 500 to their homes, continuing a broad crackdown on dissent that has also targeted lawyers, bloggers and human-rights activists.
April 24, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Japan's Christians celebrate Easter amid disaster
This Easter, the story of resurrection carried a deeply personal message for the small community of Christians in disaster-hit Japan.
April 21, 2011 - The Guardian
The Guardian: Be Muslim for a month in Istanbul: pray five times a day and fast
It has the ingredients of a conventional holiday – experiencing the culture and hospitality of one of the most exciting cities in the world.
April 20, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Vatican honoring Chinese Catholic layman
The Vatican has put a Chinese Catholic scholar who lived nearly five centuries ago on track for beatification, a move intended to raise the profile of the church in a country that keeps a tight grip on all religious expression.
April 19, 2011 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Fears of uprisings prompt China’s Easter crackdown
The days leading up to Easter are always a sombre time for Christians. But this year in Beijing, many believers have the added concern of not knowing if or where they’ll be allowed to celebrate the holiest day of the year on the Christian calendar.
April 17, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Illicit church, evicted, tries to buck Beijing
It has all the trappings one would expect from the capital’s most well-heeled and prestigious Christian congregation: a Sunday school for children, nature hikes for singles and clothing drives for the needy.
April 13, 2011 - South China Morning Post
SCMP: Living Buddha must deal with issues that go beyond religion
Angwen Danbarenqing, the 29-year-old abbot of Jiegu Monastery and a living Buddha, has been busy this week in Jiegu town
April 11, 2011 - St. Albert Gazette
St. Albert Gazette: China appoints new bishop with Vatican approval following souring of relations
China has ordained a new Catholic bishop approved by the Vatican for the first time since ties between the sides soured last year, according to church figures with knowledge of the events.
April 10, 2011 - The Times of India
Times of India: Pak Sufis become victim of West's great expectations
When two young men blew themselves up at a Sufi shrine in Pakistan's Punjab province last Sunday, killing 42, it was yet another assault on Islam's most vulnerable, allegedly least threatening strand — Sufism
April 09, 2011 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: In effort to change tone of immigration debate, groups turn to Utah
Liberal immigration activists are looking to Utah as a compassionate and logical model for shaping the nation’s policies toward illegal immigrants.
April 07, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: In Turkey, ruling party under pressure to field headscarf-wearing candidates in elections
Fatma Bostan Unsal says she was barred from taking an exam for doctoral studies at a Turkish university because she wore an Islamic headscarf, so she traveled abroad to study.
April 07, 2011 - The Economist
The Economist: From Moscow to Mecca: As this part of Russia’s empire frays, fundamentalist Islam takes a stronger hold
Only the call to prayer disturbs the morning air in the small Dagestani village of Novosasitli. Dogs do not bark here. All “unclean” animals have been exterminated.
April 04, 2011 - Star Tribune
Star Tribune: Violence, arrests cripple Bangladesh as Islamic hard-liners enforce strike over women's rights

Police clashed with demonstrators and arrested dozens in Bangladesh as a hard-line Muslim group enforced a paralyzing general strike Monday protesting a new policy giving women equal inheritance rights.

April 03, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Malaysia’s government allows Malay-language Bibles to be printed locally to appease Christians
Malaysia’s government said it would allow Malay-language Bibles to be printed locally, in a major concession to the country’s minority Christian community to soothe anger over seized shipments of their holy books.
April 01, 2011 - The Independent
The Independent: Sufi festival has spirits in a whirl
Of all the great traditions of spiritual music, Sufi music is the least known and yet, in many ways, the most approachable.
March 31, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Vietnam persecutes Christian minority, report says
Vietnam has increased repression of indigenous minority Christians in the country’s Central Highlands, closing small informal churches, compelling public renunciations of faith and arresting worshipers, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday.
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