News Focus


Media coverage of the Jos carnage is short on facts

by Fran Hawley - 3rd February 2010

LONDON 1 February 2010 - 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.

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EU cancels Orissa trip

by Our Correspondent - 29th January 2010

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

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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.

[Who are the Tablighi Jama’at?]

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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.

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‘Solace and prayer’ are Planning Inspector’s priority

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

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Conspiracy claims shake India as nation remembers Mumbai

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

 

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Emergency Synod debates ECHR crucifix ruling

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

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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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Islam urged to go green

by Our Correspondent - 3rd November 2009

Grand Mufti - Ali GomaaGreening Islam ‘hugely complicated’, says ARC Director

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What is the Tablighi Jamaat?

by Jenny Taylor - 8th September 2009

The GuardianThe problem with this sect is not that it proselytises, but it seems to have so little contact with the outside world.

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