For years now, China’s government has been rehabilitating the figure of the great philosopher as a cultural ‘bridge’ to the rest of the world but also as a mentor justifying obedience to authorities. Christians will have to give up one holiday at Easter in favour of Confucius’ birthday.
Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) – A senior religious affairs official yesterday...
RICHMOND - Swati Verma looked like she was the loser of a paint ball competition on Sunday afternoon.
Orange and purple powders were splattered all over the 16-year-old Memorial High School student's clothes. Red and yellow coated her hair and inside her ears. Some splotches of green dye even showed on her teeth. ...
After a 16-year wait, San Antonio's Hindu temple finally has received its crowning touch, a mahraja gopuram - literally, a "kingly pagoda" - that identifies the building with its roots in South India.
The gopuram, a 42-foot-high entrance tower built by Indian artisans with...
Kulsum Soonasra is one of perhaps 50 Muslims at Parkland High School but 1.5 billion in the world. And, while her argument for public school recognition of Islam's holiest day isn't a statistical one, those numbers mean something.
''We're a huge religion,'' the 17-year-old junior from Upper Macungie...
GUANGDONG, CHINA – On a recent Friday afternoon in this southern Chinese province, the fourth-graders at Bowen International School were sitting up straight, their arms neatly crossed in front of them, belting out 13th-century Chinese poems on the virtues of being polite, respecting their parents, and working hard in school.
BEIJING, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- "Men at birth are naturally good." A group of 30 inmates intone with their teacher one of the most famous verses by Confucius every morning at a northeast China prison.
Beijiao Prison, in Changchun, capital of Jilin Province, has opened a "Confucian classroom" and installed closed circuit televisions to let the ancient...
PITTSBURGH -- Archana Patel celebrates Hindu religious festivals, cooks Indian vegetarian food, watches Bollywood movies with friends and knows her marriage will be arranged.
Chandrasiri Jayakody and Ananda Gunawardena join fellow Sri Lankans...
Most Asians are unaware that Christian evangelical movements have gained enormous political power in America. And if they were to learn this, they would be mystified. Their images of America remain the old ones: scenes of Hollywood and sexual permissiveness, secularism, money worship and devotion to modern science and technology. None of these...