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Thursday, 09 February 2012 14:55
USA: California: traditional marriage 'unconstitutional'
Proposition 8, which sought to maintain the traditional definition of marriage in California, was struck down by a 2-1 vote at the Circuit Court in San Francisco on Tuesday, with the measure being deemed unconstitutional. Pro-family…
Thursday, 02 February 2012 12:01
China: Five priests ‘taken away’
Five ‘underground’ priests from Suiyuan diocese in Inner Mongolia were ‘taken away’ by police on Monday from Erenhot city (near the border with Mongolia). The sources said the priests have no affiliation with the government-sanctioned ‘open’…
Thursday, 02 February 2012 11:59
Syria: Risking it all to report the uprising
As foreign journalists weigh the risks of reporting on the unrest in Syria, many nameless locals are putting themselves in greater danger for fewer rewards covering an uprising in a tightly controlled police state that often…
Thursday, 02 February 2012 11:57
North Korea: Mobile phones = treason
The new Supreme Leader has clamped down on mobile phone use, declaring any use of a mobile phone during the 100 days of mourning for his father an act of war leading to charges of treason…
Thursday, 02 February 2012 11:55
Egypt: 3000 Muslims attack Christian homes and shops
A mob of over 3000 Muslims have attacked Copts in the village of Kobry-el-Sharbat (el-Ameriya), Alexandria, Egypt. Coptic homes and shops were looted before being set ablaze. Two Copts and a Muslim were injured. The violence…
Thursday, 02 February 2012 11:54
Cameroon: Christian converts under threat from Islamists
The handwritten threat from a group identifying itself as Boko Haram was put under the door of a church leader’s house earlier this month. It called on all Christian converts to return to Islam or face…