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Crisis worsens for Orissa children – but UNICEF India ‘deny all knowledge’

‘Underpants bomber from Kano may not be a one-off’ warns Kwashi

The Church has been urged not to be embarrassed or "awkward" about converting others to the Christian faith in a new document published today.

At least that's what many of the reports said.

Except it's not true. The Church of England did no such thing, and the media reaction indicates the gulf between the church and the secular world in which it operates.

Lapido Media stringer Vishal Arora's year-long investigation into the Sathya Sai Baba cult which is the cover story of the June issue of The Caravan monthly reveals that not a single complaint of sex abuse against the guru has been investigated.

This week is crucial for Nepal’s painful emergence as a secular democracy.  But a row over conversion could prove decisive.  David Griffiths reports.

OFCOM to investigate The Islam Channel for promoting 'intolerance and religious xenophobia'

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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