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Unknown gunmen shot dead a Christian priest and wounded another while they were leaving a church in Pakistan’s Peshawar following Sunday Mass. (Representational Photo/ News18)Spokesperson for Justice for Minorities in Pakistan Anila Gulzar has urged PM Modi to raise the issue of persecution of minorities in Pakistan at UNSC.Last Updated:January 31, 2022, 10:35 ISTFOLLOW US ON:After the killing of a Christian priest after the Sunday Mass in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on January 30, the spokesperson for Justice for Minorities in Pakistan, Anila Gulzar, has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to raise the issue of persecution of minorities in…

A ban on meat last year by the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state, a Hindu monk who issued the order on religious grounds, has decimated their trade.Now the saffron-clad Yogi Adityanath, up for re-election in key state polls next month, has turned his attention to the temple itself, suggesting he will champion the Hindu cause in a long-running dispute with Muslims over who owns the site.The issue has become a central part of the ruling party’s campaign to extend its grip on power in Uttar Pradesh, home to 200 million people and the bellwether of national politics.Hindus and Muslims…

India is clearly under serious security risk as Islamic State (ISIS) has been spreading networking in various parts of the country, while Kerala province has already emerged as the hub of ISIS and Al Qaeda activities. Meanwhile, according to media reports, dental surgeon Deepti Marla alias Mariyam, who was arrested by National Investigation Agency (NIA) on January 5, 2022, on accusation of contacts with ISIS, revealed shocking details during her interrogation by NIA sleuths. It has come to light that Mariyam used to entice Hindu youths through honeytrap and convert them to Islam. NIA has unearthed that Madesh Perumal alias…

On Sunday (January 30), a Christian pastor was gunned down by miscreants in Madina Market in Peshawar city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The area falls within the jurisdiction of the Gulbahar police station. As per reports, the victim was identified as one pastor William Siraj of All Saints Church. Besides, another priest named Reverend Patrick Naeem was critically injured in the gun attack. According to the police, the pastors came under gunfire from unidentified assailants while they were travelling for personal work in a van on the Ring Road. While Siraj died on the spot, pastor Naeem was…

IMAGE: NHS Blood and Transplant Submitted by Sabrina KumariAs part of the Government’s commitment to tackle health inequalities and promote living kidney donation amongst Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, seven projects have been successful in receiving a share of £100,000 in funding.The Living Kidney Transplant Scheme has been launched as part of NHS Blood and Transplant’s ongoing commitment to address the shortage of organs, particularly kidneys, for those from all Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds who are awaiting a transplant, whilst also addressing health inequalities in the wider population.The Living Kidney Transplant Scheme is an extension of the…

Fifty years of the formation of Bangladesh is being celebrated quite enthusiastically in West Bengal. The spiritual bond of the Bengali language and culture between two Bengals is being rediscovered and championed. Bengali language movement of 1952 by the students of Dhaka University is also almost universally being accepted as the basis of the Bangladesh independence movement. The creation of Bangladesh is being portrayed as the emergence of a secular space on the eastern border of India. At this juncture, it is very important to expose this lie on the fiftieth anniversary of the formation of Bangladesh. Whenever the word…

The Appellate Division on Sunday upheld its stay order on judicial inquiries into the attacks on Hindus and the vandalism of their temples and houses in six districts between October 13 and 18, 2021. A six-judge bench chaired by chief justice Hasan Foez Siddique, however, assigned the High Court bench, led by Justice JBM Hassan, to dispose of a public interest litigation writ petition challenging the legality of government inaction to prevent such attacks within three months. The Appellate Division issued the directive disposing of a petition filed by the government seeking a stay on a judicial inquiry ordered by…

Prayagraj: Saints at the Dharma Sansad in the ongoing Magh Mela in Prayagraj have demanded that India should be declared a Hindu Rashtra, Subhash Chandra Bose should be named as the first Prime Minister of the country and capital punishment for conversion which should be treated as treason. The saints also said that ‘patriotic’ Muslims were part of the family and a decision to intensify their ‘homecoming’ campaign would continue. Chief guest of the sammelan, Sumeru Peethadheeshwar, Jagadguru Swami Narendranand Saraswati, said: “The government may not declare India as a Hindu nation, but all Hindus should start writing and terming…

On Monday, January 31 at 19:30 GMT:It has been one year since the military coup in Myanmar. The army seized power, claiming fraud in a democratic election won by Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party. Suu Kyi and members of her party were detained and the military declared a year of national emergency. Since then, the country has been in turmoil. Millions took to the streets in protest, calling for the military to give up power. Security forces responded with brutal violence and arrests. Human rights groups accuse them of crimes against humanity, including murder, torture,…

The successive records of tea production has raised hope for thousands of farmers in Bangladesh amid the coronavirus pandemic, including farmers of plain land in the northern districts and border areas with neighboring India.Bangladesh is witnessing record tea production in the nation’s 168 years history of producing tea since the country was known as East Bengal.Last year, the south Asian country produced 90.65 million kilograms (200 million pounds) of tea and with a gradual high production in the last four years, according to the Bangladesh Tea Board.It was 10.111 million kg higher than 2020. It was 96.069 million kg of…

Pakistan has been facing severe criticism by the international community for many decades now due to the overall atmosphere of intolerance and systematic persecution meted out to its religious minorities. The newly-designated US ambassador to Pakistan, while giving a statement during his confirmational hearing at the US Senate stated that the religious minorities in Pakistan have long faced discrimination and that if appointed, he would raise the issue of the violations of religious freedom in Pakistan. Last year, the US State Department re-designated Pakistan as a ‘country of particular concern’ for having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of…

(Junction City, KS) – Konza Prairie Community Health Center is one of ten organizations across the state of Kansas to have been awarded more than $1.7 million in Increase the Reach grant funds for projects meant to address health equity and vaccine confidence.The Increase the Reach Initiative is a partnership between the Wichita State University Community Engagement Institute and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). Increase the Reach provides an opportunity for community-based organizations who have proven success in reaching vulnerable populations to receive funding to continue their work in promoting health equity through vaccinations. The program specifically…