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Turkish courts attempt to shut down Islamic party

Is the Islamic-leaning party Virtue in Turkey such a threat to the secular state?

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The Taliban remains defiant in the face of sanctions

The UN have given the Taliban 30 days to shut down Islamist training camps

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Religious issues in search for peace in the Middle East

麻豆约拍's World Affairs correspondent Nick Childs reports on the prospects for peace

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Kumbh Mela festival in India

The Hindu festival, held every 12 years, is billed as the largest gathering on earth

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Americans' views on religion in public life

Programme remembering infamous religious historical events, and asks whether they should be taught in schools.

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Putin hands out state decorations to clerics

The Russian President handed out medals and spoke without irony of the merits of religion

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Nigeria condemned for flogging 17-year-old pregnant girl 听

The United Nations Children's Funds condemned the punishment under Sharia law

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Pakistani journalists face blasphemy charges

The journalists' paper published a letter critical of the Prophet Muhammad

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Ariel Sharon becomes Israel's Prime Minister

How the Jewish world has reacted to the choice of Ariel Sharon as Israel's Prime Minister

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The Pope creates 44 new cardinals

How the new group of cardinals is an international one, with 11 from Latin America

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Sudanese leader Hassan al Turabi arrested

The veteran Islamic leader was arrested after his party signed a deal with southern rebels

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The Taliban will require Hindus to wear yellow badges

The UN Secretary General and India, Germany, Russia and the US have condemned the plan

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Taliban plan to destroy Buddhist statues

British Muslims won't be slaughtering goats at this years Eid festival as the country battles foot and mouth disease; China battles with the UN over Beijing's treatment of the Falun Gong spiritual movement.

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Safety during the Hajj

The death of 35 people during a stampede has once again thrown the spotlight on safety

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Taliban destroy two giant Buddhas

The UN described the action as a crime against culture

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Leaked reports of sexual abuse in Roman Catholic Church

The reports detail abuse of nuns by priests in 23 countries across several countries

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UK and US politicians' religious ambitions

British PM Tony Blair talked about the shared values of his religious and political vision

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Three men sentenced to death for communal violence in Indonesia

A court found the three Christian men guilty of orchestrating attacks on Muslims in Poso

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International conference of the Deoband school of Islam

The conference in Peshawar, Pakistan included a video appeal from Osama bin Laden

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Order of the Solar Temple trial in France

The first criminal trial to take place connected to the domesday sect

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London's police force tries to attract Muslim women

The Metropolitan Police are the first force in Britain to allow women to wear the hijab

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The Pope visits Greece and Syria

The Pope tries to heal old wounds while retracing the steps of St Paul

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The Pope's visit to Greece, Syria and Malta

What did the Pope achieve in this journey in the footsteps of St Paul?

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12m children orphaned by AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa

A report by Christian Aid says that rich countries should do more to support the children

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Zambia's married Catholic Archbishop

The Vatican disowned 73-year-old Emmanuel Milingo after he married a 43-year-old woman

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Nuns found guilty of Rwandan war crimes

Will the conviction damage the credibility of the Catholic Church in Rwanda?

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Turkey decides on religion's role in a secular state

Turkish prosecutors want to ban the Virtue party, the country's biggest Islamic group

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Bosnian mosque rededicated despite protests

The ceremony in Banialuka took place despite violent protests by Bosnian-Serbs

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Moscow's anger at Pope John Paul II's tour of Ukraine

The Russian Patriarch said it revived tensions between the Orthodox and Catholic world

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Talks between Israeli and Palestinian clerical leaders

The officially sanctioned talks have been going secretly for ten years

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