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Police have questioned about 150 Hindu nationalists and detained several people in connection with the recent discovery of the bodies of two Christian pastors, officials said, but Hindu groups protested they were being maligned without evidence...

More than 200 Muslim members of India's main opposition party marched in New Delhi on Thursday, demanding that Washington apologize for U.S. interrogators' alleged desecration of Islam's holy book at Guantanamo Bay prison...

ANY replication of the Taliban phenomenon in Central Asia could have far-reaching implications for the geopolitics of the region. Three successive waves of political Islam have swept across Central Asia during the 15-year period since the disintegration of the Soviet Union. They appear...

A Hindi-language film was pulled from theaters in northern India after Sikh religious leaders condemned it for denigrating their faith, the movie's producer said Friday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=11nod90t7/*http%3A//asia.news.yahoo.com/050520/ap/d8a6sqg85.html

After a gap of two decades, India's international carrier, Air India, on Sunday resumed a direct flight from the Sikh holy city of Amritsar to the Canadian financial hub of Toronto...

About 2,000 Sikhs arrived Monday from neighboring India to attend a religious festival at a shrine near the Pakistani capital, an official said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=11nm5iktm/*http%3A//asia.news.yahoo.com/050411/ap/d89d9h2o1.html

About 300 people gathered Sunday for an unusual national religious service to pray for good fortune in Thailand after more than a year of turmoil wrought by the Asian tsunami, violence in the Muslim-dominated south and bird flu outbreaks, a report said...

KARACHI - With much of the al-Qaeda network damaged in the United States-led "war on terror", al-Qaeda's ideology is now the true US enemy as it allows al-Qaeda cells to be regenerated over and over again...

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/020705dnmetsikhs.34610.html Sikhs gather supplies for Asia Dallas Morning News (subscription), TX - 11 hours ago As a member of the Sikh community in North Texas, Gurvinder Singh has been looking for a way to help victims of...

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2005/11/c1900.html Canadians rally to aid Southeast Asia Canada NewsWire (press release), Canada - 10 hours ago ... Richmonds Sikh Society have contributed $200,000 and are calling on other organizations to meet their contribution to World...

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/90-12272004-422897.html Tsunami Waves Kill Over 19,930 in Asia phillyburbs.com, PA - 9 minutes ago By DILIP GANGULY. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A military spokesman raised the estimated number of deaths in Sri Lanka caused by devastating ...