Local governments have ordered the closure of two churches on Indonesia's Java island.
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February 8th, 2010
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February 7th, 2010
The Church of England's governing body, the General Synod, is expected to hear criticism of delays in introducing women bishops.
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February 7th, 2010
The Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says the UK, not Nigeria, should be on the terrorism watch-list.
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February 7th, 2010
The Archbishop of York, Dr Sentamu, said this week that pressure to legalise assisted suicide could eventually lead to the killing of disabled people. Speaking on The World at One on Radio 4 on Monday, he said that Parliament had twice rejected the legalisation of assisted suicide. MPs? postbags had been full of letters from their elec?torate opposing a change in the law.
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February 7th, 2010
It does not take much to stir the English into a spasm of anti-Catholicism. Front-page stories declaring that Pope Benedict XVI had called on his flock to oppose the government?s Equality Bill were enough to stir 15,000 people to add their signatures to the National Secular Society?s petition opposing the pontiff?s forthcoming state visit to this country.
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February 7th, 2010
No lawyer comes forward to defend Shazia Bashir, the servant girl murdered by her employer. The powerful association of lawyers in Lahore, arrayed in defence of the murderer, launches death threats and prevents access to the Court. Christian Association condemns this new form of terrorism.
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February 7th, 2010
The deputy leader wants to engineer a ?new social order? with her equality bill. Its effects may be long-lasting and costly.
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February 7th, 2010
Many of us have heard about Geert Wilders, the Dutch parliamentarian currently on trial in Holland because he criticized Islam. It?s shocking to many that you could be charged with a hate crime for expressing an opinion, but such prosecutions are not unheard of in the Western world beyond American shores. After all, most nations have nothing tantamount to our First Amendment. But could such a thing happen in the land of the (mostly) free as well?
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February 7th, 2010
A Muslim man has gone to the High Court in Ireland demanding that he be allowed bring in his second wife to Ireland.
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February 7th, 2010
Tower Hamlets council has launched a disciplinary enquiry over pro-Islamist emails sent to a London Euro-MP.