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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.
April 23, 2012 - The Straits Times
Straits Times: Asians filling up churches in Australia
Every Sunday, Mr Bernard Wong turns up at a red-brick church near the centre of Sydney, which offers him a choice of services conducted in English, Cantonese or Mandarin.
April 17, 2012 - The Times of India
Times of India: Old City violence: Muslim groups move State Human Rights Commission against police 'high-handedness'
Various Muslim groups on Monday filed petitions with State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) against the city police for torturing them during the recent communal clashes in the Old City.
April 16, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Killings heighten ethnic tensions in Macedonia
On Orthodox Easter, one of the most sacred holidays for Christians here, Macedonians mourned the deaths of five Macedonian men amid speculation that their killers were ethnic Albanians, arousing fears of a new bout of intercommunal violence.
April 16, 2012 - Newsweek
Newsweek: Thailand’s Buddhists take up arms against insurgency
A few hours’ drive from the white-sand beaches of Phuket—one of the world’s top tourist destinations—a deadly insurgency is terrorizing Thailand’s south.
April 11, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: India puts Kashmir on table
India is willing to talk about the disputed territory of Kashmir with Pakistan as part of an effort to advance peace talks, India's top diplomat said, adding that Pakistan needs to take serious action against militants that use its soil to attack India.
April 07, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: NKorea's Bethlehem is birthplace of Kim religion
As the snow drifts through the towering evergreen trees, silence enshrouds this remote pilgrimage site, a place some here consider the Bethlehem of North Korea.
April 04, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: The two views on India’s Narendra Modi
He is widely touted as a possible future prime minister of India, but he is a pariah in much of the Western world.
April 02, 2012 - South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post: Minorities tested to the limit
Eltilib Saga says she is facing an uphill battle to enter university.
April 01, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Muslim militants in south Thailand growing stronger
Muslim insurgents announced a deadly new departure in their long-running terror campaign in southern Thailand, with four explosions killing 14 people and injuring more than 300 on Saturday.
April 01, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Self-immolations reflect rising Tibetan anger
He walked three times around the rural monastery he had attended as a small child, cycled into town and had a simple vegetarian meal with a friend.
March 29, 2012 - The Times of India
Times of India: Cancer cases tied to religion, region in India
A youngster living in India's northeast is four times more likely to develop and succumb to cancer in his lifetime as compared to a youngster living in Bihar.
March 28, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Malaysian mosque Is also a methadone clinic
Every Monday and Thursday morning, the slightly built man rides the bus for an hour and a half from his home on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur to the Ar-Rahman mosque.
March 27, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Forced conversions hike Pakistan minorities' fears
It was barely 4 a.m. when 19-year-old Rinkal Kumari disappeared from her home in a small village in Pakistan's southern Sindh province.
March 25, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: In Pakistan, Hindus say woman’s conversion to Islam was coerced
Banditry is an old scourge in this impoverished district of southern Pakistan, on the plains between the mighty river Indus and a sprawling desert, where roving gangs rob and kidnap with abandon.
March 22, 2012 - The Australian
Australian: O'Farrell government freezes Islamic school's funding
THE NSW government has frozen funding to Sydney's largest Islamic school after an Education Department audit found the school's owners were charging the school millions of dollars in improper fees.
March 21, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Horrific anti-China protests become Tibet's norm
For more than a year the deadly protests have swept the Tibetan plateau, waves of people burning themselves alive in a widening challenge to Chinese rule.
March 20, 2012 - The Australian
Australian: Sharia widespread in local community
A LAWYER has revealed he has prepared more than 1000 wills for Australian Muslims using Islamic law, while other lawyers and Muslim leaders say sharia is used informally by most of the Islamic community.
March 16, 2012 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Ten years after ‘Gujarat,’ the man accused of sanctioning it is poised to become India’s PM
Crouched beside her husband waist deep in a rooftop water tank at 2 in the morning, Anjuman Bano listened to her Hindu neighbours debate.
March 10, 2012 - The Economist
Economist: Burma’s bimah
AMID the bustle and crumbling masonry of downtown Yangon, there is one building that likes to keep up appearances: Myanmar’s only synagogue.
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