The president of the Christian Association of Nigeria has suggested that Muslim extremists, specifically al-Qaida-linked Boko Haram, are not simply trying to push Christians out of the mostly-Muslim northern areas, but are actually using violence in an effort to expel believers from the country altogether.
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January 20th, 2012
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January 20th, 2012International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that an Afghan Christian widow and three of her daughters were denied refugee status by the UN in New Delhi, India for the second time last month despite fears that being deported to their homeland may mean imprisonment for apostasy.
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January 20th, 2012Nigeria has been suffering from religious violence for years, with attacks often occurring during the Christmas season. At least three dozen people were killed in a string of bombings last month. Since December, more than 80 Christians have been killed by radical Muslims, according to the International Christian Concern (ICC), an advocacy group. In addition, the violence has also spread to southern Nigeria, where Muslims and their places of worship have been attacked in apparent retaliation for the killing of Christians in the north.
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January 20th, 2012Nigeria has been suffering from religious violence for years, with attacks often occurring during the Christmas season. At least three dozen people were killed in a string of bombings last month. Since December, more than 80 Christians have been killed by radical Muslims, according to the International Christian Concern (ICC), an advocacy group. In addition, the violence has also spread to southern Nigeria, where Muslims and their places of worship have been attacked in apparent retaliation for the killing of Christians in the north.
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January 20th, 2012The steady rise in single-parent families was highlighted yesterday as official statistics showed there are now almost two million in the UK. The figures from the Office for National Statistics revealed that almost one in four children (24 per cent) now live in lone-parent families, up from 22 per cent in 2001.
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January 20th, 2012Although the total number of couples tying the knot is falling, 4 per cent more did so in an Anglican church during 2010 than in the year before.
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January 20th, 2012His fairy wings, pink tutu and ballet pumps suggest this little boy has raided the dressing up box. But if five-year-old Sasha wanted to wear this every day, his parents would have no problem at all. In fact, as they are bringing him up to be ‘gender neutral’, they would see it simply as their son expressing himself.
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January 19th, 2012THE chief executive of a Hertfordshire charity supporting the elderly has defended current legal guidelines for helping seriously ill people to commit suicide.
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January 19th, 2012PEOPLE at the centre of a controversial debate on same sex marriage will gather in Edinburgh at the end of the month for an event sponsored by Dumbarton MSP Jackie Baillie.
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January 19th, 2012David Cameron will set out his vision in a speech that is due to call for reforms to make capitalism more responsible.