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After being incarcerated for thirty months in the Mai-Sirwa military camp just outside the capital city of As mara, Aleloo has learned well-known Eritrean Christian gospel singer, Helen Berhane has just been released from prison.
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A Lutheran pastor in Warsaw has rejected claims that his church could be used for spying against the nearby headquarters of the interior ministry if a planned extension to the church building goes ahead.
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Eritrean security police tortured two Christians to death yesterday, two days after arresting them for holding a religious service in a private home south of Asmara. The deaths came just after officials detained a U.S. citizen and re-imprisoned a popular Christian singer who was hospitalized as a result of spending 29 months in a metal shipping container.
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Plans for a mosque in east London large enough to accommodate more than 40 000 worshippers are generating opposition from two Christian groups, the Barnabas Fund and the Christian Peoples Alliance.
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The 2006 EEA (European Evangelical Alliance) and EEMA (European Evangelical Missionary Alliance) General Assemblies opened in Warsaw, Poland on Oct. 17 with an opening address by the Polish Commissioner at the European Union, Dr. Danuta Hübner.
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In 1979, Luc Dessieux fled his home in Haiti after a terrorist group threatened to kill his family if he didn't leave the island. Arriving in the United States as an illegal immigrant, he was imprisoned for three weeks.
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Aleloo received news in early August 2006 that Chinese authorities had demolished a large house church in the province of Zhejiang. This church was under construction and was almost done when a mob of government-hired agitators came to watch as bulldozers and wrecking balls tore it to the ground.
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Two senior United States church leaders have sent out a clear message to the White House and the religious right that God cannot be co-opted as a ‘warrior divinity’ serving national or sectional interests.
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A new book by the general secretary of the US National Council of Churches (NCC) is a call to reclaim US religious life from the "far religious right", says its author, the Rev. Robert Edgar. "The politics of faith have been co-opted in the service of a political agenda defined by fascination with war
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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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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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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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