Sufi saint's legend fills hungry bellies of New Delhi slum kids
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At one of Islam's most revered shrines in India, a Sufi saint's legend is helping fill the hungry bellies of indigent youngsters and other beggars.
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SHEIKH ADI, Iraq  - Worshippers sacrifice fowl and  offer dawn prayers to the angel Malak Taus as hundreds of  members Iraq's obscure Yezidi sect gather at their Lalish  temple to celebrate the summer feast.
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Ishmeet Singh is good news for Sikh communities desperate for role models to inspire young men to keep their hair long and bound
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An elderly Bangladeshi Muslim man takes part in the last prayer of the &quot;Biswa Ijtema&quot; or World Islamic Congregation on the outskirts of Dhaka, December 5. Approximately four million Muslim devotees from Bangladesh and abroad raised their hands seeking
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By S. SRINIVASAN    BITHOOR, India  -- For 12-year-old Anju Sharma, hope for a better life arrives in her poor farming village three days a week on a bicycle rickshaw that carries a computer with a high-speed, wireless Internet connection...
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LOURDES -- His voice weak, his legs unsteady as he knelt in prayer, Pope John Paul II joined thousands of other ailing pilgrims yesterday at a cliffside shrine known for its miraculous cures, telling them that he shared in their physical suffering and assuring them that the burden was part of God's &quot;wondrous plan.&quot;
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Deepak Chopra, the spiritual guru, is part of an effort to bring Western comic-book titles like ÂBatmanÂ and ÂSupermanÂ to IndiaÂs booming youth market.
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Young single women in New Delhi who want to live solo are viewed with suspicion.
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Spiritual appetites are longing for nourishment well beyond the parish-based Bible study classes of the past.
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A new film will examine a centuries-old tradition among some underprivileged Indian communities where girls in the family become prostitutes, with their brothers and fathers acting as pimps.
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Sikh pilgrims flock to Pakistan for the anniversary of the religion's founder, Baba Guru Nanak.
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The chant of prayers swelled to a climax as a priest pierced the tongue of pilgrim Uthaya Kumar with a slim, six-inch skewer in one of Malaysia's biggest Hindu festivals.
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Mallika Sherawat, above, the actress known in some circles as Bollywoodâs Bardot, has been cast as an ascetic who befriends Jesus of Nazareth in âThe Aquarian Gospel,â a Hollywood film based on the legend that Jesus visited India, Reuters reported. The $15 million film, directed by Drew Heriot, deals with the life of Jesus between the ages of 13 and 30, a period not documented in the Gospels, when some believe he journeyed through India, Tibet and Persia. In a statement released by her press agent, Ms. Sherawat, whose 17 kissing scenes in her Bollywood debut, âKhwahish,â created a stir, said: âI find that in most mythological and spiritual film stories, women seem to be lacking any true wisdom or a sense of humor. I look forward to bringing both of those qualities to this character.â.
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All of the kids were special to her. In the rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Schenectady, N.Y. -- a place Daisy Smythe unabashedly calls "a hood" -- all of the grandchildren and cousins had a unique place in her heart. So, too, all of the foster kids, the parade of runaways and castoffs she brought in and showered with tough ...
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Reader Siddharth wants to surprise his sister Sonal.
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An essential class of workers, garbage collectors in Indiaâs capital are among the cityâs poorest and most marginalized groups.
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The chant of prayers swelled to a  climax as a priest pierced the tongue of pilgrim Uthaya Kumar  with a slim, six-inch skewer in one of Malaysia's biggest Hindu  festivals.