News Focus

The embarrassing appointment by Surrey County Council of a member of a ‘heretic’ branch of Islam to a ‘social cohesion’ post indicates the need for greater religious literacy in public affairs, Lapido Media said today.

Reports on the recent spate of killings in Jos have highlighted the confusion over the causes of such events in divided Nigeria.

Much of the media puts the clashes in Plateau State down to sectarian conflict quickening under threat of a political vacuum due to the absence of the President, Umara Musa Yar’adua.

An EU delegation's humanitarian visit to Orissa has been scrapped after an access dispute with the federal government.

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

Historic St Mark’s Church in Mayfair will not become elite spa as Inspector throws out developer’s appeal.

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

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

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

Greening Islam ‘hugely complicated’, says ARC Director