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Thursday August 30, 2007

India:

Man buries daughter alive

Reason? He wanted to appease the presiding deity of the sect the family follows.
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Wednesday January 3, 2007

India • Ramdev:

Yoga Guru Ramdev calls for religious tourism

Yoga guru Ramdev on Tuesday stressed the need for the development of religious tourism in the country.
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Wednesday July 26, 2006

India:

‘Satanic cult’ burns ‘Bible’, vandalises church

AIZAWL: Miscreants on Sunday night vandalised the Kawnpui Hmarveng Presbyterian Church in Mizoram's Kolasib district, burnt a copy of the New Testament and desecrated the altar.
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Monday July 10, 2006

India • Ramdev:

India tunes into Ramdev, Sri salvation

MUMBAI, July 10 Early one summer morning in the holy town of Haridwar, on the banks of the sacred Ganges, about 500 people sit on mats facing their saffron-clad Hindu guru, following his every word.
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Thursday May 4, 2006

India:

Police grab children of Satan-fearing cult

AGARTALA, India (Reuters) - Police in India's largely Christian state of Mizoram have taken 13 children away from their parents said to belong to a cult which believes attending school exposes students to satanic forces, an official said on Thursday.
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Saturday January 28, 2006

India:

‘Christians beaten up’ in Bhopal

Twenty-five Christians have been beaten up by attackers in the central Indian city of Bhopal, police say.
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Wednesday January 25, 2006

India:

Living gods facing purge

Most people know India is the land of gods but not many know eight million of them are alive and walking around there.
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Thursday July 14, 2005

India:

Indians Compete for Taj Mahal Ownership

An Islamic trust claimed ownership Wednesday of the Taj Mahal and demanded a slice of tourist revenue from the 17th-century monument to love, but the government-run group charged with its upkeep vowed to challenge that claim in court.
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Wednesday June 29, 2005

India:

Row over Taj Mahal ownership

A descendant of India's Mughal emperors has staked a claim to ownership of the world's most famous monument to love, the Taj Mahal, amid a row between Hindus and Muslims over its custody, a report said today.
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Friday April 29, 2005

India:

India to serve tourists with spirituality

New Delhi, April. 29 (PTI): A dip in the holy waters of the Ganges, a prayer at the Golden temple or a visit to the Ajmer Sharif; spiritual tourism in India has been synonymous with religious tourism till now. But the Government now looks beyond and promote the spiritual richness of the country through intangible elements like Yoga and Vedic chants.
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Tuesday April 19, 2005

India:

Convict-turned-swami tortures British wife, held

Accused got Amanda to marry him, saying they were consorts in their last birth
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Monday August 9, 2004

India:

TV evangelism hits the Indian airwaves

NEW DELHI: From the day Saroja Subramanian was crippled by arthritis she stopped attending her 'satsangs', or mass devotional singing, at the neighbourhood temple.
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Friday November 7, 2003

India:

Did Jesus Christ ever visit India?

Puri: Did Jesus Christ ever visit the pilgrim city of Puri during his "unexplained twelve years" of life? We would know soon if German scholar H J Trebst's research to unearth the missing twelve years of Christ's life bears fruit.
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Friday July 25, 2003

India:

Fifty-five years down, decades to go: a Sanskrit dictionary grows in India

Associated Press, July 22, 2003
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