Thousands of Muslim faithful disobeyed a city ban and gathered in a central Roman piazza to pray as part of the festivities for Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
In the News
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September 21st, 2009
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September 21st, 2009
A recent study by Scripps Research Institute scientists offers good news for families of children afflicted with the rare genetic disorder, cystinosis. In research that holds out hope for one day developing a potential therapy to treat the fatal disorder, the study shows that the genetic defect in mice can be corrected with stem cell transplantation.
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September 21st, 2009
Family planning is five times cheaper than conventional green technologies in combating climate change. That is the claim made by Thomas Wire, a postgraduate student at the London School of Economics, and highlighted by British medics writing in the Lancet on September 19th.
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September 21st, 2009
It's the most destructive crisis of our age - a generation of violent, illiterate, lawless young men living outside civilised society.
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September 20th, 2009
Keir Starmer, the country?s chief prosecutor, has said that families helping terminally ill loved ones to commit suicide will not be prosecuted as long as they do not 'encourage' them and only help to assist a 'clear and settled intention' to die.
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September 20th, 2009
Guidelines on assisted suicide law will be published by the Director of Public Prosecutions this week to clarify when people are likely to be prosecuted.
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September 20th, 2009
A Christian Couple face losing their livelihood after being charged with a criminal offence for offending a Muslim woman by saying that Islamic dress is oppressive.
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September 20th, 2009
Prosecutions in this country have now become so selective that many have begun to wonder what the law is for.
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September 20th, 2009
A Christian nurse was taken off frontline duties after she refused to take off a necklace bearing a cross.
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September 20th, 2009
Muslim groups have called on the police to act quickly to prevent violent clashes after the anti-Islam English Defence League announced plans to march on a Welsh city in protest at a new mosque.