religious freedom

Mumbai, March 5 Security overrides religion, the Bombay High Court said on Thursday while refusing any relief to taxi and auto-rickshaw drivers seeking to offer namaz (prayers) at the site of a now demolished temporary shed near the city airport during Ramzan.A bench of Justices B P...

Mumbai, March 5 Security overrides religion, the Bombay High Court said on Thursday while refusing any relief to taxi and auto-rickshaw drivers seeking to offer namaz (prayers) at a temporary shed near the city airport during Ramzan.A bench of Justices B P Colabawalla and Firdosh Pooniwalla...

Islamabad, March 4 Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday congratulated the Hindu community on the occasion of Holi and urged greater national efforts to promote interfaith harmony.Highlighting the cultural significance of the festival, the prime minister said Holi reflected...

Islamabad, March 4 – A minority Christian boy in Pakistan was forcibly converted to Islam, highlighting another case of injustice against vulnerable communities, according to a leading minority rights group.According to the Voice of Pakistan Minority (VOPM), 14-year-old Jameel Masih, from the...

Kohima, March 3 – The Nagaland Assembly on Tuesday decided to refer the issue of singing the national song “Vande Mataram” in the assembly to a Select Committee for detailed examination, following objections raised by several legislators.Speaker Sharingain Longkumer announced the decision...

Male, March 3: The Chinese government's treatment of religious and spiritual communities has once again come under scrutiny in the US Congress, following remarks by a former senior American official who condemned the Chinese Communist Party's policies as a "war on belief systems," according to a...

Chennai, March 2 Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin defended the state government's stance on the Tirupparankundram temple lamp lighting controversy and said personal faith should not be subservient to politics.His remarks came on a day Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Arulmighu...

Navi Mumbai, March 1 Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday that religious conversions are taking place in Punjab and appealed to the Bhagwant Mann government and the common people to stop this practice driven by "greed".Shah invoked the sacrifice of Guru Tegh Bahadur while addressing...

Islamabad, February 27 – A leading minority rights group highlighted another brutal attack on a Christian minority worker in Punjab province, Pakistan, on Friday, stating that religious communities frequently face violence and systematic exploitation across the country.Citing eyewitness...

Islamabad, February 26 – A leading minority rights group in Pakistan expressed serious concerns on Thursday regarding the increasing misuse of the country's blasphemy laws, stating that they are increasingly being used as "tools of fear, control, and profit."Citing human rights groups, which...

Lucknow, February 25 The Uttar Pradesh Congress staged a statewide protest on Wednesday, demanding a fair and transparent inquiry into the FIR filed against Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati and those who filed the complaint against him.In a statement issued here, the party said that...

Islamabad, February 25 – As the population of Sikhs and Hindus in Pakistan continues to decline, a report released on Wednesday highlighted that land belonging to several religious sites of minority communities has been sold, with other properties allegedly being forcibly occupied by local...

Yadgir (Karnataka), February 25 A case has been registered against BJP MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal for allegedly making hate speech during a Shivaji Jayanti celebration in this district, police said on Wednesday.The incident occurred in the town of Gurumathkal in this district, where the MLA...

Rudrapur (Uttarakhand), February 25 According to police, an elderly Muslim man was allegedly assaulted and forced to chant religious slogans after he offered namaz on a vacant plot in front of a temple here.A video of the incident is circulating on social media. In the video, the accused are...

Rudrapur (Uttarakhand), February 24 An elderly Muslim man was allegedly assaulted and forced to chant religious slogans after he offered namaz on a vacant land in front of a temple here, police said on Tuesday.A video of the incident is circulating on social media. In the video, the accused...

Ludhiana, February 24 CT University Vice-Chancellor (VC) Nitin Tandon was removed on Tuesday, following allegations of misbehaving with a group of Kashmiri students, Chancellor Charanjit Singh Channi said.The private university has also initiated an internal probe into the matter while the...

Srinagar, February 24 – The J&K Students Association (JKSA) appealed to the Chief Minister of Punjab on Tuesday regarding alleged threats to Kashmiri students over the provision of meals during Ramadan at CT University.A statement from the JKSA said, "The Jammu and Kashmir Students Association...

New Delhi, February 24 – Tension gripped Lucknow University on Tuesday after members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), along with activists of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal, attempted to recite the Hanuman Chalisa at the historic Lal Baradari within the campus...

Prayagraj, February 23 The Allahabad High Court on Monday observed that the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021 neither prohibits interfaith marriages nor bars such couples from living together in a live-in relationship.Justice Vivek Kumar Singh said that...

Tel Aviv, February 23 – While Turkey has emerged as one of the most vocal international advocates for Gaza in recent years, its silence on the abuses of Uyghurs by Chinese authorities is deafening – a striking irony that cannot be ignored, a report highlighted on Monday.It added that in...