News Focus

Brotherhood face both ways as Egypt votes for its president

by - 24th May 2012

‘Clarifying Islam’: MB presidential hopeful Mohamed Morsy. Photo: ReutersMB hopefuls renounce punishment for conversion – and a new caliphate in Jerusalem.

Sponsoring salvation: India’s Hajj Subsidy debate

by - 22nd May 2012

Lapido tests reaction to the abolition of an annual £80million religious subsidy that has done nothing for poverty.

(Still not) Finding Kony

by - 9th May 2012

The BBC’s Dan Damon has just been in the Central African Republic and Uganda, travelling with the US Army to report on the hunt for mass child-abductor Joseph Kony.  One hundred special-forces soldiers are deployed there to assist armies of four countries still ravaged by the brutal leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Lapido asked Dan about his week-long trip into one of the most remote parts of Africa.

Egypt: Is feminization key to future?

by - 2nd May 2012

Surprising images and passionate performances mark fourth annual Caravan Festival of Arts in post-revolutionary Cairo.

‘Faith-ignorant smear campaign won’t undermine us’

by - 26th April 2012

Pastor speaks out on eve of elections, as project becomes pawn of Welsh politics.

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