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Despite relentless attacks from left-wing media and threats of violent jihad from Muslims, Modi has remained steadfast in his pursuit to protect minorities facing persecution in Islamic nations. Through groundbreaking CAA legislation, he offers sanctuary to victims of Islamic persecution, contrasting sharply with Western countries that extend entry to those persecuting non-Muslim minorities. On Monday, March 11, the Indian government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, took a significant step in addressing religious persecution by officially implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). This piece of legislation, passed in December 2019, aims to provide a haven for minorities such as Hindus,...

About 270,000 Rohingya Muslims have sought shelter in Bangladesh since violence erupted in Myanmar two weeks ago, the UN says. A spokeswoman said the jump - up from 164,000 on Thursday - was because new pockets of people had been found. She called the figure "so alarming" and said urgent action was needed to address the situation in Myanmar. Those fleeing say Myanmar's military are burning their villages and attacking them. The violence began on 25 August when Rohingya militants attacked police posts in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state. Rohingya residents - a stateless mostly Muslim minority in a Buddhist-majority nation...

Less than a week of tribal/religious violence in the central Nigerian city of Jos has left nearly 500 dead, and thousand wounded. This is nothing new. Similar violence broke out 14 months ago, leaving over 700 dead. Thousands of soldiers and police were required to restore order. The current mayhem arose, in part, out of disputes over how rebuilding was done in some neighborhoods (as in putting a new mosque in a Christian neighborhood.) This time, some 10,000 people have fled their homes to avoid the violence. The religious violence in the area (Plateau State) goes back to ancient tribal...

AYODHYA, India (AP) -- Suresh Kumar Pal helped destroy an ancient Muslim mosque here a decade ago. On Friday, he intends to defy a Supreme Court order and lay the first stones of a Hindu temple at the heart of renewed sectarian bloodshed. ``We can't fight the might of the police, but we will try. We live on Lord Rama's land, so we have to do our duty,'' said Pal, a Hindu, who had brought a few bricks with him for the planned temple, whose construction is bitterly resisted by Muslims. He echoed thousands of Hindus who have gathered on...