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EXCERPT: Two Muslim religious leaders say they were asked to leave a commercial airliner in Memphis on Friday and were told it was because t…

By Martin Surridge – The Indian subcontinent has a rich and religiously diverse history. In addition to Hinduism, often called the wor…

EXCERPT: The site of a planned outdoor Easter service at one of China’s largest independent “house” churches was eerily si…

EXCERPT: Has the time come to cut out circumcision? Pro-foreskin forces say so, and some in San Francisco say they’ve collected enough…

By Martin Surridge – Few countries around the globe can outdo Afghanistan when it comes to suffering and misery. Just in the last ten…

EXCERPT: The Virgina State Board of Social Services has voted overwhelmingly against new adoption rules that some say would allow same-sex c…

EXCERPT: For centuries, Islamic scholars have said that Muslim women must cover their hair. But many Muslim women don’t. There are abo…

By Martin Surridge – France can’t seem to stay out of global headline news at the moment. In a two week period, Sarkozy’s…

President Obama's middle-ground approach to the credible and well-established “Clash of Civilizations” theme – when formulating internationa…

Greg HamiltonApril 14, 2011

EXCERPT: Chinese police on Sunday detained more than 100 churchgoers who tried to hold an outdoor prayer service on a pedestrian bridge in B…