Asserting that the noble land of India owned the copyright to Buddhism, the 17th Karmapa Lama, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, flagged off a grand three-day service in the capital on Friday on the occasion of th

Bhagvad Gita, one of the most sacred Hindu religious texts, is facing a legal ban and the prospect of being branded as ‘an extremist’ literature across Russia, with a court in Siberia's Tomsk city all

Some Islamic schools in Pakistan are accused of training militants and supporting violent extremist groups, with some dispatching fighters to neighbouring Afghanistan.

"The madrassa officials claim t

Indian Railways will launch a special train next month to cover various Sikh shrines in the country to cash in on the success of luxury trains on the religious routes catering to overseas tourists.

Sikh athletes and spectators will be allowed to wear ceremonial daggers into 2012 London Olympic venues, despite the intense security arrangements, as part of a multi-faith approach to the Games.

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Saudi women with attractive eyes may be forced to cover them up under a new law in the country.

The ultra-conservative Islamic state has said it has the right to stop women revealing 'tempting' eyes

Rasanath Das, an ex-investment banker turned Hindu monk, was spending recent Sunday afternoons leading Occupy Wall Street protesters in meditation until police cleared their camp at New York's Zuccott

Pope Benedict XVI heads for Africa this week, where he is likely to face questions over the Catholic Church's stance on condoms on the continent hardest hit by HIV and AIDS.

His arrival in the West A

Eleven people have been nabbed for the killing of three Hindu doctors, who were brothers, in Pakistan's Sindh province, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said.

Ajeet Kumar, Naresh Kumar and Ashok Kumar

Stampedes at temples and other religious places in India have claimed nearly 1,000 lives in the last 10 years in the country.

Before Tuesday's stampede at an ashram in Haridwar which claimed 16 live