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• Crowds mark Mother Teresa's death, 10 years on

  Published: September 5, 2007, 5:16 am

  Tags: Community Society, Religion Beliefs, Human Interest, People, India

  Special prayers have been held at the tomb of Mother Teresa in the Indian city of Kolkata to mark the 10th anniversary of her death.

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• Goats sacrificed to 'fix' airlines plane troubles

  Published: September 5, 2007, 4:01 am

  Tags: Religion Beliefs, Hinduism, Human Interest, Animals, Offbeat, Air Transport, Nepal

  Nepal Airlines has acknowledged that it sacrificed two goats to appease a Hindu god following a spate of technical problems with one of its aircraft.

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• US Catholic Church settles 144 sex abuse cases

  Published: September 8, 2007, 1:50 am

  Tags: Community Society, Child Abuse, Religion Beliefs, Catholic, Law Crime Justice, Courts Trials, Sexual Offences, United States

  The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego in the United States has reached a settlement with 144 victims of sexual abuse by clergy.

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• Involve Muslim youth in volunteering: report

  Published: September 8, 2007, 5:19 pm

  Tags: Community Society, Religion Beliefs, Islam, Community Organisations, Australia, Nsw, Sydney 2000

  A new report is urging young Muslim Australians to volunteer in mainstream community organisations.

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• Pope slams 'child-poor' Europe

  Published: September 8, 2007, 8:15 pm

  Tags: Community Society, Religion Beliefs, Catholic, Austria, Italy

  Pope Benedict XVI blasted Europeans for being selfish and not having enough children, in a sermon at the 850-year-old pilgrimage site of Mariazell in Austria.

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• Belgium cracks down on anti-Islam protest

  Published: September 11, 2007, 4:28 pm

  Tags: Religion Beliefs, Islam, World Politics, Belgium

  Belgian police arrested 154 people for taking part in a banned protest in Brussels against "the Islamisation of Europe", on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

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• 1,300-year-old Buddha unearthed intact

  Published: September 11, 2007, 4:25 pm

  Tags: Religion Beliefs, Buddhism, Human Interest, South Korea

  A 70-tonne granite statue of Buddha which toppled over face-down 1,300 years ago in South Korea has been unearthed with its features intact.

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• Anti-Mugabe archbishop resigns amid sex claims

  Published: September 11, 2007, 4:07 pm

  Tags: Religion Beliefs, Catholic, World Politics, Zimbabwe

  Archbishop Pius Ncube, a leading critic of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, resigned after an alleged adultery scandal but said he would not be silenced by the "wicked regime".

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• Iraq, Egypt, China slammed in US religious freedom report

  Published: September 14, 2007, 6:20 pm

  Tags: Religion Beliefs, World Politics, Rights, Human, China, Egypt, Iraq, United States

  Religious freedom conditions have worsened in insurgency-wracked Iraq as well as Egypt, while communist China has embarked on a crackdown on foreign missionaries ahead of the Olympics, the US Government warned in a report.

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• Iran leader uses Friday prayers to slam Bush

  Published: September 14, 2007, 4:01 pm

  Tags: Religion Beliefs, Islam, World Politics, Iran, United States

  The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has made a bitter attack on the US President George W Bush during Friday prayers in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

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• Polygamy leader told rape victim to repent, court told

  Published: September 14, 2007, 8:00 pm

  Tags: Religion Beliefs, Mormons, Law Crime Justice, Courts Trials, Sexual Offences, United States

  A young woman told a Utah court she wanted to die after being forced into sex at the age of 14 in a marriage arranged by one of the biggest US polygamous sects.

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• Sikh school bypasses French secular laws

  Published: September 15, 2007, 7:41 am

  Tags: Community Society, Religion Beliefs, Education, World Politics, France

  A new Sikh school opens in Paris today, set up after France introduced tougher laws banning the wearing of religious insignia in state schools.

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• Burma tells monks to stay away from protests

  Published: September 15, 2007, 7:11 am

  Tags: Religion Beliefs, Buddhism, World Politics, Burma

  Burma's state media has labelled leaders of recent anti-junta protests "devils" and accused them of trying to corrupt young monks, some of whom joined the rare demonstrations.

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• Minister offers to resign over Hindu god affidavit

  Published: September 15, 2007, 9:50 am

  Tags: Community Society, Religion Beliefs, Hinduism, India

  Indian officials say the Indian Government has suspended two directors at its archaeology agency for their role in a Supreme Court affidavit which suggested Hindu gods did not exist.

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• Archbishop's art criticism angers Germans

  Published: September 15, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Arts Entertainment, Contemporary Art, Community Society, Religion Beliefs, Religious Leaders, Germany

  The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, has sparked a row in Germany by calling some modern art "degenerate", a word that evokes the Nazis' attitude to art.

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