RELIGION
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Mega-churches have expanded rapidly in Singapore. What’s their appeal, and what are the implications of this rise of evangelicalism and its inherently subversive agenda?
DARIUS SIT
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How does one answer a three-year-old and even ourselves questions about God?
AASEM BAKHSHI
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In a seldom-heard perspective, a Saudi Arabia-based journalist speaks out against those who oppose Islamic law, and points out the little-known facts about the controversial punishment of death by stoning.
SABRIA JAWHAR
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In a private hospital in Karachi, a child has just been born. But rather than bringing joy to the family, the birth has led to bitter disputes.
IRIN
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Land of the growing billionaires club and a prosperous middle class? Or where the forgotten millions live, struggling to make ends meet? The Quirky Indian asks how we might resolve the contradictions.
THE QUIRKY INDIAN
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She was sentenced to death for blasphemy, and Islamic extremists are warning the government not to pardon her. Now, a governor has been murdered by his own bodyguard for showing her sympathy.
FASI ZAKA
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With up to 12 million Catholics in China, many underground churches and Catholics loyal to the Pope and reluctant to submit to China’s state-sponsored Catholic association worship clandestinely for fear of persecution.
MINISTRY OF TOFU
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One writer argues that the rules governing tradition and religion should be based on what is practical, and less on what is theoretical.
SLOK GYAWALI
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How does a nation so quickly forget the vile racism it endured for generations - which nearly drove it to annihilation - and inflict it carelessly on another?
DAN-CHYI CHUA
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Every year, Hindu women fast on the day of Karva Chauth to bring blessings for their husbands. What is a modern-day Indian wife's take on this?
RESTLESS MIND
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Local reports say the 33 men who riveted the world with the survival-and-rescue story will be coming to Israel. But that may be just half the story. Where are they really going?
DAN-CHYI CHUA
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Jin Jin, or Yecholiya Jin, is a Kaifeng Jew who moved to Israel five years ago.
DAN-CHYI CHUA
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They look no different from the millions of Han Chinese living in China, but what set this community apart is their roots. Meet the Kaifeng Jews.
DAN-CHYI CHUA
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我回家了。That was how she felt when she first arrived in Israel, that she had finally come home, after 19 years, as one of the pioneering Chinese Jews to have returned.
DAN-CHYI CHUA
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In immensely over-populated and predominantly Catholic Philippines, is abortion really just as simple as taking the “soul” out of the equation?
BENIGN0
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