Rather than amend the law (section 295 of Pakistan Penal Code) punishing those convicted of insulting Islam, Pakistan should ensure the laws were not abused, said Pervez Musharraf, former Pakistan president and currently the head of the newly-formed political party All Pakistan Muslim League (APML).
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January 18th, 2011
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January 18th, 2011
They have faced arrest, torture and death for their faith. But more than 40 years after the Cultural Revolution, Chinese Christians are getting bolder about sharing their faith in public.
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January 18th, 2011
Documentary maker Masood Khan explores the Muslim community's struggle against extremism. In the first of three videos, he goes to Luton to see how Salafi Muslims are rejecting the extreme rhetoric of al-Muhajiroun.
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January 18th, 2011
Lesley Pilkington, a Christian counsellor with over 20 years' experience is facing a Professional Conduct Panel on Thursday 20 January after an extraordinary targeting and betrayal by an undercover homosexual activist falsely pretending to be a Christian in need of help.
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January 18th, 2011
A psychotherapist who tried to convert a gay man to become heterosexual faces being struck off at a landmark disciplinary hearing this week.
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January 18th, 2011
A Christian couple who refused a room in their bed and breakfast to a gay couple broke British equality law, a judge ruled Tuesday.
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January 18th, 2011
The Christian owners of a seaside guesthouse acted unlawfully by refusing to let a homosexual couple share a double bed, a judge has ruled in a landmark case.
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January 18th, 2011
A British judge has fined a Christian couple for refusing to allow a homosexual couple the use of a double room at their hotel in southern England.
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January 18th, 2011
Judge Andrew Rutherford of the UK ruled in Bristol County Court on January 18 that Hazelmary and Peter Bull broke the law when they denied accommodation to two men, Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy – who have been described as civil partners - at their hotel in Cornwall in September 2008. The judge award each of the two men £1,800 each in damages.
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January 18th, 2011
You don’t have to agree with Peter and Hazelmary’s traditional beliefs about marriage to be concerned by today’s ruling.