The Parsis, numbering no more than eighty thousand, are a cultural and religious community centered in Mumbai (Bombay) but also living in some towns and villages of Gujarat State. Originally from Persia, they sought refuge from Islam at Sanjan on the...

PARSIS (Pārsis, also rendered as Parsees), "Persians," or Zoroastrians, from Iran who settled in the Indian subcontinent during the tenth century CE, and their descendents. Zoroastrians in Iran had contact with people in the...

This article is about the Parsi community. For the language related term, see Fars and Persian language. A Parsi (Gujarati: પારસી Pārsī, IPA: [ˈpa(ɾ).si]), sometimes spelled Parsee, is a member of a close-knit Zoroastrian community based...

BBC News last night featured an interview about Iran with a highly-presentable young specialist at Hopkins, Trita Parsi. The interview was startling to me for a word that Parsi used. Now that the neocon moment seems at last to be over, and the U.S. is...

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A Christian was sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammed, and a human rights activist Friday urged Pakistan's president to spare his life.Younis Masih, 29, was arrested in September 2005 on the outskirts of the eastern city of Lahore after residents told police...

A nursing school was shut down and its Christian principal and four students suspended after Muslim pupils accused unknown people of desecrating verses from the Quran, officials said Saturday.The action by the management of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Science _ the main hospital in...