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Muslims want to pray in Cordoba cathedral

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Muslim groups are trying to convince Church leaders of the Cathedral of Cordoba in southern Spain - once the Great Mosque of Cordoba - to allow for both Muslim and Christian worship within the premises.


Muslims fined over ‘cow-head’ incident

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A Malaysian court has fined 12 Muslim men whose protest over the relocation of a Hindu temple last year saw one of them stepping on the head of a cow.


Mob demands death sentence over ‘blasphemy’

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Thousands of Muslim protesters have demanded the death sentence for alleged Christian blasphemers in Faisalabad.


Mutilated professor’s family forgives attackers

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The family of a professor in southern India whose hand was cut off by suspected Islamic extremists say that they have forgiven his attackers.


Fall-out from Facebook

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Things in Pakistan seemed to be settling down peacefully after the Facebook saga. (Kamran Chaudhry, ucanews.com)


Obama’s Catholic school in Indonesia

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Long shadowed in the United States by dark rumors that he attended a radical Muslim school while growing up in Indonesia, President Obama faces pressure from some old school pals to finally come clean about the past. (Andrew Higgins, Washington Post)


Muslim extremists attack Bangladesh Catholic tribals

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Attacks by Muslim extremists on tribal Catholic villagers in a northwestern Bangladesh parish have left about 50 people injured, with 10 in a serious condition.


Forty killed after attack on Nigerian Catholic church

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More than 40 people have been killed in the Nigerian city of Jos, Plateau State, after around 200 Muslim youths attacked Christians near a Catholic church in Nasarawa Jos, sparking retaliatory violence.


Vatican warns over ‘annihilation’ of Christians

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Sarawak Christians are looking at a challenge against the confiscation of CDs referring to “Allah” while Vatican Archbishop Robert Sarah has warned that recent attacks are designed to “annihilate” the church.


Adopt dalit-rights report now: Indian Church

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Christian and Muslim dalit people are to be given the same rights as their Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh counterparts under an official recommendation that comes after a 60-year struggle by the Church to win the concessions.


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