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Patrick Sookhdeo is the International Director of the Barnabas Fund and the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity.
Patrick, you talk of a major change in the way the Western world has come to perceive Islam since the events of September 11th. What has changed?
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Christians have again come under attack by mobs of angry Muslims in Northern Nigeria. The rioting apparently started following an allegation that a Christian woman had made insulting comments about Muhammad.
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The men are to be executed on Thursday, September 21, 2006. They were the only ones charged in a conflict in which massive numbers of Muslims participated. After their execution was stayed last month by the Attorney General for Central Sulawesi, Mohammad Yahya Sibe, he was suddenly replaced.
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Pope Benedict XVI has apologised for the furore caused by a lecture he made in Germany where he quoted a 14th century Christian emperor who had referred to the "evil and inhuman" aspects of Islam, an address that stirred ire from some Muslims...
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My name is Nick Vujicic. My parents were Christians, and my Dad even a Pastor of our church. On the morning of the 4th of December 1982 in Melbourne (Australia), the last two words on the minds of my parents was "Praise God!". Their firstborn son had been born without limbs!
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Local villagers demolished the house of a pastor in the Phulbani district of Orissa state on September 8. After he filed a police complaint, he was charged with the rape of a middle-aged woman and arrested on September 11.
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More Americans believe in a critical and judgemental God than a benevolent God, and these images shape their political beliefs according to the findings of a new survey. Conducted by Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) and the Department of Sociology...
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Churches have joined in the widespread denunciation of three bomb blasts near to a Muslim mosque at Malegaon in the western Indian state of Maharashtra which left at least 31 dead and more than 200 injured.
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The world's biggest church grouping is urging religious leaders to examine behaviour, attitudes and actions that stigmatise people living with HIV and AIDS, while also calling on churches to adopt workplace policies inclusive of HIV-positive people.
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Larry Everett is a member of the elite Fairfax County, Virginia, Fire and Rescue Department – and he remembers exactly where he was on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. On that fateful morning five years ago, Everett had a taste of hell.
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On the evening of August 19, Santu Adhikary, 33, a worker for Christian Life Bangladesh (CLB), was attacked by four unidentified terrorists at Bowfal in Patuakhali, a southern district of Bangladesh. Four masked terrorists grabbed Santu while he was on a bicycle.
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This skillfully crafted 21st Century bible has been made in Wales using medieval techniques. It has been written entirely by hand using quills and paints hand-ground from precious minerals and stones such as lapis lazuli, malachite, silver, copper and 24- carat gold.
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Smith Wigglesworth (1859-1947) is a famous evangelist. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
"I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
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The steady increase in the movement of people around the globe is one of the main features in today's world and is having a deep impact on churches, the main governing body of the World Council of Churches has heard.
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When Joan Yorba-Gray found out that her husband had infected her with the AIDS virus, it seemed like her life was about to end. But, actually, it was the beginning of a whole new life for her. Joan agreed to tell her story during the 16th World AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada, where she was one of 24,000 delegates from around the world.
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