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Choking a toddler, naked woman covered in blood—not your European-style exorcism.

Witchcraft rampant in Jharkhand—more than 600 witches killed in last 10 years.

Advisory Council on Religious Education: Encouraging "success through diversity."

"Symbolic breastfeeding" would allow men and women employees to be alone together.

Puerto Rican ex-con has a largely Hispanic following.

What? No stakes through the heart?

Curious "purification" ritual inflames caste sensitivities in India.

Remains of two dozen children (5 to 8 years old) sacrificed at a single time found.

Funeral pyres may become legal in Britain.

British beauty gets her "Indian" wedding wrong; natives take offense.

Otherwise they'll face lives of "abuse and misery."

Not your mainstream voodoo.

Pakistanis present "marker" for payment: demand woman’s 17-year-old daughter.

Collapse of health services prompt return to ancestral beliefs and practices.

Local Pakistani militants declare fatwa against polio workers—and they mean business.

God, for Tanna islanders, is a mythical American named John Frum.

Just one of the things Sunnis and Shiites fight about.

Women to be flogged, too.

"Slavery is found in every region of the world"—Anti-Slavery International

In some areas, immunization teams have been attacked and beaten.

Valuable corpses.

Elephants and hippopotami are also at risk.

Even Kuwaiti pilgrims prayed for the end of "main evil," the United States.

Muslim hospital visitors bring in infections; refuse to use disinfectant.

Real hate crime.

Haitian immigrant believed his mother was placing Voodoo curses on him.

Pakistanis can now sacrifice cows, goats, sheep and camels by Internet.

Some people would just have thrown a party. Or asked for bonuses.

It’s hard to change imigrants' eating habits.

African families "throwing their children away."

Being fat is seen as a sign of wealth, health and happiness.

College business professor from Nigeria used punishments common in his native country.

Islam’s sharia law differs considerably from Western standards of justice.

How to get girls in Soweto.

Gov. minister wants all schoolgirls examined for signs of genital mutilation — even ethnic Swedes.

Detroit tradition spreads.

US now a market for guinea-pig meat, courtesy of immigration.

First US prosecution for increasingly common practice.

‘Wetback’ redux.

Seventy percent of Indian women believe they deserve a beating if dinner is late.

Witchdoctors in Zimbabwe tell patients sex with a virgin will cure AIDS.

Height-conscious Chinese risk disfigurement from surgery to lengthen legs.

West Africans eat kaolin despite health risks.

Widow finds decapitated animals on her husband's grave.

PC UK.

Thousands of British and American "nationals" are forced into marriages at young ages.

Immigrants bring female genital mutilation to Western countries.

Brutal European murders that make headlines "may be the tip of a horrific iceberg."

Egyptian immigrant co-defendant's excuse: “At that time we were new here.”

Child sacrifice still practiced in some parts of India.

US customs finds macabre contraband in Haitian's luggage.

Indian tries to convince his family he is not a ghost.

Other cultures do not share the West's kindness towards animals.

White Hindus will appeal ruling that required they remove holy cows from their yard.

How Indians punish witches.

Destruction of New Orleans a heavy blow to Voodoo in America.

Hindu ascetics eat corpses thrown into Ganges River.

Pampering polygamists.

He doesn't think New Zealand should deport him for fraud and assault.

Columnist notes the curious customs of Mexican immigrants.

Georgia civic center hosts curious ethnic weddings.

Color of discipline.

Indian believes those who relieve themselves outdoors should not be village councillors.

Asian women are at pains to whiten their skin.

Blacks and AIDS.

One of 4,000 honor killings in the past four years in rural Pakistan.

Pakistani lets his friends gang-rape his bride to punish misdeeds of her brother.

Health minister thinks garlic and lemons better at fighting AIDS than drugs.

South African villagers respond by beating three dogs.

Bob Dylan to be portrayed by black actress in film about his life.

The long-threatened canings of illegal immigrants have started.

Cult of "Santa Muerte" thrives in Mexico's slums.

168,000 African immigrants in the US have undergone genital mutilation.

Botswana holds beauty pageant for HIV-positive girls.

Proof that you can blame whitey for everything.