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A mob of three hundred Muslims murdered six Christians, and seriously wounded fifteen others during a midnight worship service in Beshasha, a town located in the Agaro province, 408 kilometers West of Addis Ababa.
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The Anglican Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, has called on British Airways (BA) to reconsider its decision to refuse to allow Nadia Eweida, a check-in worker, to wear a necklace cross on the outside of her uniform.
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The European Union accused Turkey of failing to protect religious minorities in the same month of a historic visit by Pope Benedict XVI. "Turkey's approach to minority rights remains unchanged," notes a 2006 report published by the European Commission in Brussels.
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The normally jammed-packed streets of Beirut during rush hour were even more frantic as residents scrambled following the news that Christian politician Pierre Gemayel had been gunned down and killed in the streets of a Beirut suburb.
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After eight and a half years in jail on unsubstantiated blasphemy charges, Pakistani Christian Ranjha Masih was acquitted today by the Lahore High Court. At the end of a two-hour appeal hearing on the case, Presiding Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khausa ruled that the lack of any solid evidence...
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The following letter from Ted Haggard, former senior pastor of New Life Church, was read to the congregation this morning at the 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. services. To my New Life Church family: I am so sorry. I am sorry for the disappointment, the betrayal, and the hurt. I am sorry for the horrible example I have set for you.
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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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