News Focus

EXCLUSIVE: Unknown to Western media – but bigger than the Hajj

by
Our Correspondent
- 27th January 2010

Western journalists have never reported the BISWA IJTEMA – the world’s biggest Muslim jamboree in Bangladesh - until now.  Award-winning photographer JEREMY HUNTER gave Lapido Media first look at his pix.

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Deoband to reconsider death sentence for apostasy

by
Jenny Taylor
- 11th January 2010

Fatwa to be debated as Deoband spokesman says beheading for apostasy is not supported in law.

Conspiracy claims shake India as nation remembers Mumbai

by - 17th November 2009

New book’s claims indicate the brutality of the struggle for India’s soul, as the nation prepares to host 2010 Commonwealth Games.

 

Emergency Synod debates ECHR crucifix ruling

by - 16th November 2009

The Italian crucifix case could subject Europe to the views of an aggressive minority.

Where politics and religion mix

by
Heather Payne
- 10th November 2009

Anger at the failure of militant Hinduism to help the poor has provoked a new political realism among Christians, reports Heather Payne.

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