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Gunmen free up to 800 inmates from Nigeria prison

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Heavily armed gunmen attacked a prison in the central Nigerian city of Bauchi late on Tuesday, freeing as many as 800 inmates including suspected members of a militant Islamic sect, police said Wednesday. State police commissioner Danlami Yar'Adua ...

Veteran Syrian director takes on Muslim "extremism"

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - A veteran Syrian director who has shocked audiences by portraying a religious zealot who abuses women says his popular television series could help stop an Arab slide toward extremism. Najdat Anzour's "What your right hand possesses," whose heroine Leila ...

Palestinians torch cars in Jerusalem violence

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinians torched half a dozen vehicles in East Jerusalem on Thursday and threw stones and firebombs at Israeli police after Jewish settlers approached a mosque, local residents and police said. There were no reported injuries in the incident in ...

Businesswoman launches first British halal make-up

BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters Life!) - As a Muslim, Samina Akhter was disturbed to find some of her make-up contained pig by-products so she came up with a solution -- a range of halal make-up, free from alcohol and animal products. Under Islamic ...

Saudi sitcom row tests tolerance toward Christians

RIYADH (Reuters) - A popular Saudi holiday sitcom has drawn the ire of conservative clerics over an episode portraying Arab Christians in a positive light after the kingdom sought to sell itself as a leader of dialogue between faiths. "Tash Ma Tash," ...

India re-imposes curfew in Kashmir after deaths

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - India re-imposed a curfew in Kashmir on Saturday and deployed thousands of police, officials said, a day after four protesters died in fresh anti-India demonstrations that have so far killed 55 people. The two-month-old protests, the angriest since ...

Young Americans more loyal to religion than Boomers

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Younger Americans, between the ages of 36 to 50, are more likely to be loyal to religion than Baby Boomers, according to new research. In a study published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, ...

Suspected bombing at Ukrainian church injures nine

KIEV (Reuters) - A suspected bomb blast injured nine people at an Orthodox Christian church in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya on Wednesday, an Emergencies Ministry official said. The blast occurred on the day Ukraine celebrated an anniversary of its conversion ...

NY parish declines to sell property to Muslim group

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A Roman Catholic parish in New York City on Thursday voted against selling one of its properties to a Muslim organization that planned to erect a mosque there, yielding to local residents' opposition. The Staten Island parish's ...

NY synagogues get increased anti-terrorism funds

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City nonprofit and religious groups including more than 25 synagogues will receive nearly $6 million in anti-terrorism grants, up 40 percent from last year, a U.S. congressman said on Monday. Citing a foiled plot targeting Bronx ...
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