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Pakistan's clergy enjoys hegemony over state, religion
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 17 (ANI): While the clergy in Pakistan enjoy uninterrupted power and hegemony over the State and religion, a constitutionally sanctioned body of clerics, the council Islamic Ideology (CII), has a responsibility of ensuring that no legislation or policy contradicts
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US survey report reveals 73 pc LGBTQ youth face bullying for reasons beyon
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 15 (ANI): About 73 per cent of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) adolescents have faced at least one experience of bias-based bullying (because of their body weight, race, ethnicity and religions), suggests a recent US survey report.
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Pakistan continues to violate Universal Declaration of Human Rights' right
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 13 (ANI): Every year a large number of Christian and Hindu girls, mostly minors, across Pakistan are abducted and forcibly converted to Islam to get married to Muslims.
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Dr Jawahar Surisetti opines on one of the biggest needs of future life on
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 9 (ANI/PRNewswire): "8th June 2020, is being celebrated worldwide as the World Digital Wellbeing Day," said convenor of WDWD, Dr Jawahar Surisetti, an eminent psychologist and futurist, during the virtual launch event organised by an international, not for profit Reli
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In communal harmony message on Eid, people of Alappuzha collect money for
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Alappuzha (Kerala) [India], May 25 (ANI): In an act of kindness on Eid-ul-Fitr, people from all religions of Vattayal in Alappuzha district united to collect money for the surgery of 36-year-old Mohammed Rafi, whose both kidneys failed, thereby sending a message of communal harmony.
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The state of minorities in the Islamic State
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Glasgow [Scotland], May 6 (ANI): According to the State of Human Rights 2019 annual report published by Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), "Religious minorities remained unable to enjoy the freedom of religion or belief guaranteed to them under the constitution...this has meant the
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UN calls for solidarity among communities as Sri Lanka marks a year of Eas
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 21 (ANI): Remembering the 259 lives lost and those injured in the Easter Sunday attacks a year ago, the office of United Nations in the country on Tuesday called for solidarity between communities to safeguard the health and rights of every citizen as terrorism has
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People battling COVID-19, anyone dividing them on religion worst enemy of
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 15 (ANI): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday said the people were fighting against the devastating pandemic of coronavirus and anyone seeking to divide the people on the lines of "religion, caste or creed" was the worst kind of enemy of the country.
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Left parties urge countrymen to pledge to safeguard Constitution on Ambedk
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 13 (ANI): Left parties on Monday called upon the countrymen to pledge on Ambedkar Jayanti to safeguard the Constitution and strengthen the bonds of social unity of our people without any discrimination based on religion, caste, gender or disability.
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Kashmiri girl urges citizens to set aside differences, pay heed to PM's ad
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Baramulla (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], April 7 (ANI): As the Centre is urging all communities to adhere to social distancing and other measures to prevent coronavirus transmission, a young girl from the Kashmir Valley has urged people to follow Prime Minister's Narendra Modi's advice and set
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Rajasthan: Hospital denies entry to pregnant woman over her religion, baby
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Bharatpur (Rajasthan) [India], April 5 (ANI): A pregnant woman was denied admission into Janana Hospital here allegedly citing her religion as the ground. Following which the woman delivered the baby in the ambulance but the infant died.
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Incidents like Tablighi Jamaat malign image of religion, says VK Singh
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): Union Minister VK Singh on Friday asserted that people from Tablighi Jamaat congregation deliberately tried to spread coronavirus and said that such incidents only malign the image of the religion.
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