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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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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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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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A bishop in Pakistan has renounced his nationality in protest against discrimination and hatred he says is suffered by the minuscule Christian minority in the world's second largest Muslim nation.
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A 29-foot (8.8 metre) cross in San Diego, California has become the latest focus for continuing struggles about the place of religious symbols in US public life. On 14 August, the cross at the top of Mount Soledad in San Diego's La Jolla district...
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Iraq Program Coordinator Nabil Omeish has become accustomed to encountering unusual experiences in the course of his work. “One day in Baghdad I was stopped at a security post by an official who asked to see what was in the suitcase I was carrying...
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The parents of Prakash, a third-year Gospel for Asia Bible college student, were washed away in the heavy flooding in their village in Maharashtra, India. The body of Prakash's father, Marotrao, was recovered, and his mother, Vimla, is presumed dead.
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A large anti-Christian hate campaign has been launched by the Hindu nationalist/anti-Christian BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) in Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh state). The BJP alleges that Christian missionaries are proselytizing in the town and are agitating...
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International Christian Concern has just become informed that the execution date has been set for three Christians involved in the Poso conflict. The men are to be executed on Saturday, August 12, at 12:15 am.
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Christian groups have decried changes to laws said to enshrine "freedom of religion" by legislators in India's central state of Madhya Pradesh, ruled by the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party), a party opponents describe as having a Hindu nationalist agenda.
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