In our home Deepavali (as Diwali is known as in South India) is about family getting together in much the same way as Christians celebrate Christmas.

A Hindu temple in south London is facing demolition as developers plan to replace it with a hotel and student accommodation. The Sivayogam Temple has been ...

... were married in a Hindu ceremony in 1998. The husband converted to Islam in 2002 and then converted his two young sons. Apart from the conversion issue, ...

Hindu campaigners have long argued that members of the lower caste - referred to as Dalits or "untouchables" - suffer unfair treatment at the hands of ...

... The Hindu newspaper in Islamabad and said it was behind the attack. It was in response to India's "refusal" to discuss the disputed Kashmir region, ...

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I understand the religion, ethics and human rights, but for me this is one of the most crutial things, which should not be forgotten - to bring the ...

The Commonwealth has fully suspended Fiji after it refused to bow to demands to call elections by next year.

But human rights groups in Nepal say that paying men to marry widows would only bring further misery. "It's totally wrong," says Lily Thapa, ...

Militant groups banned in Pakistan are expanding operations and recruitment in Pakistani-run Kashmir, according to a government report seen by the BBC.

Called "pariahs", hundreds of Dalit Christians continue to face discrimination - not from Hindus but fellow Christians. More than 200km (124 miles) from ...

In India, Dalits are often forced to take the worst kinds of jobs, and can live their lives in poverty because of a system that gives religious sanction to ...

A map produced by the BBC suggests only 38% of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and surrounding areas is under full government control.

Residents of Pakistan's Swat Valley are reported to be fleeing their homes despite authorities rescinding an earlier order for them to leave.

India's Supreme Court has ordered the establishment of five special courts to try cases related to communal riots in the state of Gujarat in 2002.

For almost two decades, more than 100,000 Bhutanese refugees have lived in seven refugee camps in south-eastern Nepal.

Malaysia has banned the religious conversion of children without both parents' consent, local media reports.

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said the planned laws violated human rights and were unjustifiable when Nato troops were dying to protect universal values. ...

... parts of the 1998 Human Rights Act covering freedom to practise religious beliefs could also be relied on. At a Hindu cremation, the corpse is bathed, ...

Suspected Maoist rebels have killed a leader of hardline Hindu organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in the eastern Indian state of Orissa.

The editor and publisher of a top English-language Indian daily have been arrested on charges of "hurting the religious feelings" of Muslims.

His conversion illustrates just how sensitive the issue of evangelism can be. He has been disowned by most of his family, and threatened by other Muslims. ...