A Rhode Island lawmaker is calling Gov. Lincoln Chafee “Governor Grinch” after he defied lawmakers and decided that the state would have a “holiday tree” instead of a “Christmas tree.”
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November 29th, 2011
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November 29th, 2011
(Reuters) - Coptic Christians are trying to make their voices heard in Muslim-majority Egypt's parliamentary election, fearing Islamists could sweep in and deepen their sense of marginalisation.
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November 29th, 2011
BARKIN LADI, Nigeria – Fulani Muslim herdsmen along with Muslim soldiers have killed at least 45 ethnic Berom Christians in Plateau state in the past week, Christians in this northern-central Nigerian town said.
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November 29th, 2011
WASHINGTON -- Few terrorism experts would deny that a radical Islamist sect that has made a series of increasingly audacious attacks in Nigeria, including the bombing of U.N. headquarters in Africa's most populous nation this summer, is a growing threat. What isn't so clear is whether Boko Haram is an "emerging threat to the U.S. homeland."
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November 29th, 2011
ASSIUT, Egypt—Ahead of elections, Egypt's Coptic Church discreetly told followers to vote for an alliance of leftist and liberal parties sponsored by a Christian tycoon. The move by a Church normally wary of inserting itself into politics showed how deeply Egyptian Christians fear that Islamists will come to power.
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November 29th, 2011
Christians are in imminent danger across the world, and yet they are being refused refugee status, while Muslim refugee immigration goes on unimpeded.
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November 29th, 2011
A severely-disabled 57-year-old man is to ask a High Court judge to allow a doctor to "lawfully" end his life, solicitors said today.
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November 29th, 2011
A severely disabled man from Wiltshire is to ask the High Court to allow a doctor to end his life.
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November 29th, 2011
A severely-disabled 57-year-old man is to ask a High Court judge to allow a doctor to "lawfully" end his life, solicitors have said.
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November 28th, 2011
NASHVILLE, TN -- Four Christian groups at Vanderbilt University soon could be kicked off campus as school administrators quietly adopt a policy that prohibits student organizations from holding members or leaders to any standard of belief or behavior.