A US couple told a school board Monday that their son's civil rights were violated when he was assigned a book that refers Jesus Christ as a "wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist."
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December 14th, 2010
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December 14th, 2010
A new wave of Iraqi Christians has fled to northern Iraq or abroad amid a campaign of violence against them and growing fear that the country’s security forces are unable or, more ominously, unwilling to protect them.
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December 14th, 2010
Iraqi Christians prepare to celebrate Christmas behind 3-meter walls.
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December 14th, 2010
In an odd form of social suicide, rather than increasing efforts to integrate Muslims into German society, German students will be taught about Islam. In a sense, German educators will be engaged in proselytizing for Islam.
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December 14th, 2010
The lifestyle of a typical Middle Briton has been laid bare in wide-ranging research published yesterday. Analysts discovered a social group living in semi-detached suburbia and worrying about how to pay the mortgage.
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December 14th, 2010
About 30 Sudanese women have been arrested for holding a protest march over a video which allegedly shows two policemen whipping a woman.
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December 14th, 2010
Life must be protected from the moment of conception, Hungary’s ruling party said in a draft of the country’s new constitution that would effectively introduce a complete ban on abortion after several decades of liberal laws.
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December 14th, 2010
A growing number of Latin American Christians have entered Muslim countries like Morocco, Turkey, and Indonesia as missionaries.
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December 14th, 2010
The federal government sued a suburban Chicago school district Monday for denying a Muslim middle school teacher unpaid leave to make a pilgrimage to Mecca that is a central part of her religion.
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December 14th, 2010
The European community is "very concerned" about the plight of members of the Christian minority in Iraq, the president of the European Parliament said.