After a Muslim beat a Christian field worker for asking him to let him pass on Tuesday (June 30), a cleric in a village near here used a mosque loudspeaker to announce a call to attack Christians that resulted in more than 500 Muslims ransacking and looting at least 110 houses.
In the News
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July 7th, 2009
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July 6th, 2009
The Queen has sent "supportive" letters to the leaders of a controversial church movement that has angered homosexuality campaigners.
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July 6th, 2009
The new fellowship, the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, will today publish letters from the Queen, supreme governor of the Church of England, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, acknowledging its launch.
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July 6th, 2009
The Tories are shortly to unveil a far-reaching policy to put marriage at the heart of family life. A high-powered team of lawyers commissioned by Iain Duncan Smith's Centre for Social Justice is to issue a report later this month which is expected to shape Conservative policy on the family.
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July 6th, 2009
Peer-reviewed scientific survey looks at more than a century of research to determine that those with unwanted same-sex attractions can benefit from therapy and should continue to have access to it.
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July 6th, 2009
An exam board has scrapped a GCSE biology question about creationism after admitting it could be misleading.
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July 6th, 2009
Britain's biggest exam board will review the content of its science questions after it admitted misleading pupils about creationism in a biology GCSE.
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July 6th, 2009
About 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible have been recovered and put on the internet.
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July 6th, 2009
Lord Falconer's amendment is wrong. Doctors should not be involved in assisted suicides, says Ian McColl.
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July 5th, 2009
A traditionalist Anglican group has warned the issue of homosexuality could split the Church of England the way the Episcopal Church has done in the US.