May03

Dead bij grenade attack in Kenyan church

by admin on May 3rd, 2012 at 13:59
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By an attack with a grenade in a church is today in the Kenyan capital Nairobi a person deceased. Ten other churchgoers were injured, said the Kenyan police.

The church is in a working class neighborhood. “Someone threw a grenade inside,” said a police spokesman. “The wounded by church-goers to various hospitals.”

The attack has not yet been claimed. Previous attacks in the country by the government were linked to the radical Islamic movement al-Shabaab. That Kenya has the grain since the country last year sent troops to Somalia to fight there against members of this movement, which has links with al-Qaeda.
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May03

Terry Jones burn Korans again, now for the Christian in Iran

by admin on May 3rd, 2012 at 13:58
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The priest threatened to burn Korans in 2010. He wished then that there was no mosque, near Ground Zero. After consultation with Muslim leaders he saw of his plans.

This time he fights for the release of a Christian cleric in Iran. Jones the death penalty by hanging him over the head.
The meeting was attended by about 20 people. After Jones received a summons for violating fire safety rules.
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May03

Tunisian TV boss punished for blasphemy;

by admin on May 3rd, 2012 at 13:57
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UPDATE The boss of a TV station in Tunisia today sentenced to pay a fine of 2400 dinars (nearly 1200 euros) for the broadcasting of a controversial cartoon. The film aroused the anger of Muslims who felt that there was blasphemy.

The Tunisian court found Nabil Karoui, head of the commercial television station Nessma, guilty of disrupting public order and violation of moral values.

The award-winning French / American film Persepolis, about a girl growing up in Iran, includes a scene in which Allah is depicted. This is forbidden in Islam.

The issue is seen as an example of the growing gap between Islamists and secularists in Tunisia.
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May03

Former President Carter gives zondagsles in his hometown

by admin on May 3rd, 2012 at 13:56
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For some Americans, Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, the worst thing that ever happened to the country. For the 653 inhabitants of the village in the southern Plains, Georgia, however, is a Democrat and former peanut farmer a goldmine.

A peanut is a fine example of what God means by ‘patience in life. ”
A handful counts the village streets, which meets all the clichés of an American Western movie. A water tank on stilts, an abandoned train station, four shops with squeaky doors and wooden floors. A sharp sun on an early Sunday morning, nobody on the street.

Escort by silent village
It is quiet in the village that Jimmy Carter (87) picks. On Sunday he would prefer the two streets to the Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown by bicycle to sit in the church.

But because every week the death threats on the doormat of the former president, he is accompanied by an escort, five armored armored cars whiz by the whisper-quiet village.
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May03

Call for Pope to young people: a priest

by admin on May 3rd, 2012 at 13:55
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Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday called on young people to consider a future as a priest. The Catholic Church is struggling because of a shortage of new priests in western countries and tries to counter.

“We pray that all young people are aware of the voice of God (…) that calls them to disengage from everything and follow him,” he said, inter alia, against thousands of faithful in St. Peter’s Square in Rome.
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