This isn't a church. It's a "terreiro" — a place of worship for followers of the "Umbanda" faith. The people here burn incense and puff on cigars as they move with eyes closed and faces tense.
In Chennai, India, it is what is called "the December Season," a time when the city comes alive with thousands of concerts featuring Carnatic music.
India and China are competing for influence in the Maldives, a tiny country of 1,200 islands scattered in the northern Indian Ocean.
The Maldives is one of the countries most imminently threatened by rising seas from climate change. But as Lily Jamali reports, even many people in the tiny Indian Ocean nation don't sense a real threat to their lives and livelihoods.
As the Kyrgyzstan's fledgling democracy moves forward, the local media have been covering events closely. But so has an older, arguably more powerful institution in Kyrgyzstan.
This year's reform movement in the Arab world has raised questions about US cooperation with repressive regimes.
Prince Karim Aga Khan IV doesn't exactly fit the profile you'd expect of a Muslim holy man.
Presidential elections are scheduled for October to make the country more democratic than its authoritarian neighbors.
Kyrgyzstan saw two revolutions in recent years to become the first parliamentary democracy in Central Asia.
In U.S. cities where Muslim populations are growing fast, Muslim families are pushing to make their holidays part the calendar in schools. In the nation's largest school system, New York City, the debate continues. Lily Jamali reports from New York.
Cricket is wildly popular among South Asians. Now cricket is gaining fans among some New York City police officers as a way to connect to New York's growing South Asian communities. Correspondent Lily Jamali reports.