Algeria — Prosecutors asked a court on Sunday to sentence four Algerian converts to Christianity to one year in jail each for opening a place of worship without permission, their lawyer said.
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November 29th, 2010
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November 29th, 2010
The number of teenage girls who are physically aggressive and lash out at school and at home has risen at an alarming rate, experts claimed yesterday.
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November 29th, 2010
Five days after the start of Advent, in which Christians prepare to celebrate the birth of the Infant Jesus, the largest provider of abortions in Alaska plans to utilize a popular holiday bazaar in Anchorage to promote and raise funds for their organization.
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November 29th, 2010
Commission aims to clarify legal position both for terminally ill and loved ones. But campaigners fear sufferers could be pressured into ending life.
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November 29th, 2010
It is an unfortunate fact that the issue of abortion and women’s sexual health has been paralysed and abandoned on the wasteland between political ideology and religious dogma for a very long time, says Nadine Dorries MP.
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November 29th, 2010
Ceremony to send off 2,002 foetuses draws crowds, as government of Thailand vows to tackle unwanted pregnancies.
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November 29th, 2010
On November 20 a Christian named Zohab son of s/o pervaiz rahi age 20 years eloped with a Muslim girl named Anum age 18 daughter of Mohammad Abid resident of Baldia town, Karachi. Young Christian man had accepted Islam and got married with a Muslim girl.
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November 29th, 2010
Sudan's musicians have gone from persecuted outcasts to high-profile stars. Now, as a referendum on the south's possible independence approaches, there are fears that the same combination of ideology and politics might send them packing again, writes the BBC's James Copnall in Khartoum.
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November 29th, 2010
A lawyer says a Pakistani court has barred the country's president from pardoning a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy before it rules on her appeal.
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November 29th, 2010
German universities, once the centers for incubating and fostering the world's greatest geniuses - Einstein, Heisenberg, Schrodinger and others - are now becoming madrassas for training Muslim imams.