Around 300 Muslim protesters and 300 police officers surrounded members of the Batak Christian Protestant Church (Huria Kristen Batak Protestan or HKBP) on Sunday as they worshiped in an open field in Ciketing, Bekasi, local sources said.
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August 5th, 2010
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August 5th, 2010
The power of prayer really can help to heal the sick, an international study has found - especially if the well-wisher is standing near the person they are praying for.
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August 4th, 2010
A state juvenile court judge on Tuesday rejected the request of a Christian convert's Muslim parents to order their daughter to continue chemotherapy for uterine cancer.
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August 4th, 2010
California's voter-approved law barring homosexuals from state-recognized marriage has been struck down by a federal court.
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August 4th, 2010
A TV commercial criticised for promoting abortion has been cleared by the advertising watchdog. The ad, for the Marie Stopes clinic, advised women who were worried they might be pregnant to contact the organisation, which carries out 65,000 abortions a year.
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August 4th, 2010
A private Catholic school in Bristol has gone into administration after a bid by a Christian organisation to turn it into an academy was refused.
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August 4th, 2010
Two Christians were killed, a church ransacked and shops burned as Muslim-Christian tensions erupted into five hours of violence in Faisalabad, Pakistan.
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August 4th, 2010
Award-winning journalist and novelist Ninotchka Rosca has called on the government to legalize abortion, amid claims that current rules have caused a human rights crisis.
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August 4th, 2010
Swiss prosecutors have dropped a criminal probe of the founder of the assisted suicide group Dignitas over urns containing human ashes that were thrown into Lake Zurich.
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August 4th, 2010
New protest at occupation of Palestinian territories, as Israeli ambassador counters with 'two-date solution' pun.