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BLASPHEMY LAW TO BE REVISED SOON: PAK MINISTER
WASHINGTON, Feb 8 2010 Samaa TV: The
Pakistani government plans to revise its laws against
blasphemy within this year, Minority Affairs Minister
Shahbaz Bhatti said on Sunday. Bhatti said religious
reconciliation was a little-noticed priority for
President Asif Ali Zardari's civilian government in
Pakistan, which lies on the frontline of the US-led war
against Islamic extremism.
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AUSSIE CHURCH WELCOMES INDIAN RECRUITS
Feb 12, 2010: The Catholic Church in
central Queensland is preparing to welcome three Indian
priests to the region to make up for a shortfall of
Australian clergymen. Rockhampton's Bishop Brian Heenan
has just returned from India where he has been able to
recruit three priests to his diocese. The Bishop says a
fall in the number of Australian priests has had the
local clergy stretched to the limit.
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ROAD TRIP COLLECTS USED BOOKS FOR NEPALI BELIEVERS
8 February, 2010, USA (MNN): The number of
Christians in Nepal is still at a low 0.6 percent. For
the believers that do live there, Christian resources
can be hard to come by. "The Christian population there
is very small, so the work is tremendous," John Lowrey
of Christian Resources International says about the
country. "There is just so much to be done--so much
evangelism to be done, so much pastor training to be
done.
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CHRISTIAN LOSES CRUCIFIX APPEAL AGAINST BRITISH
AIRWAYS
 LONDON (AFP) A devout Christian woman
lost her appeal Friday that she was discriminated
against by British Airways (BA) after the airline
suspended her for wearing a crucifix to work four years
ago. Nadia Eweida, 58, had appealed against an
employment tribunal decision that cleared BA of
religious discrimination over its policy, which changed
following a furore over her case in 2006.
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LANKAN BISHOPS CALL FOR POLITICIANS CODE OF CONDUCT
Feb 10, 2010 (UCAN): A group of Catholic
and Anglican bishops in Sri Lanka have urged politicians
to stop politics-related violence in the country so as
to further lasting peace and democracy. It is quite
normal for people to side with a candidate before and
during a democratic election, but it is unacceptable for
them to be victims of reprisals once the election is
over, Anglican Bishop Kumara Illangasinghe of
Kurunegala told UCA News.
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 GLENN
PENNER PASSES ON TO GLORY
Ottawa (Canada): After a seven year
struggle with cancer, Glenn Penner of The Voice of the
Martyrs Canada went home to be with the Lord on the
evening of January 26, 2010 at the age of 48. Glenn
first joined VOM-Canada in 1997. Klaas Brobbel, the
Director of the mission at the time, recalls, "Looking
back to August 1997 when we interviewed Glenn for the
position of Development Director for The Voice of the
Martyrs, I marvel at God's goodness and timing to send
Glenn our way.
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IMPRISONED MISSIONARY TELLS HIS STORY
Nepal (MNN) : In 2002, Mission Network
News told you about Gospel for Asia missionary Manja
Tamang from Nepal. He was serving as an evangelist when
he was falsely accused of murdering a foreign man, who
Tamang discovered along the road. He was sentenced to 20
years in prison but was released late last year. Now,
Tamang along with his wife, Rati, are telling their
story to the world.
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SINGAPORE DENOUNCES PASTOR FOR RIDICULING BUDDHISTS
Feb 9, 2010 (Reuters): Singapore has
warned a Christian pastor that his online videos are
offensive to Buddhists and Taoists, underlining the
city-state's concerns that religion is a potential
faultline for its multicultural society. Pastor Rony
Tan, of Lighthouse Evangelism, apologised and pulled the
video clips off the internet after being visited by the
government's Internal Security Department on Monday, the
pastor and the government said on their websites.
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EVEN THIRD-HAND SMOKE CAN POSE CANCER RISK
Washington, Feb 9 (ANI) : A new study has
shown that the residue from tobacco smoke that clings to
virtually all surfaces long after a cigarette has been
extinguished could prove to be a potential health
hazard. The research team at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) showed that nicotine in
third-hand smoke reacts with the common indoor air
pollutant nitrous acid to produce dangerous carcinogens.
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EARLY LIFE STRESS MAY CAUSE CARDIAC DISEASE
Washington, Feb 10 (IANS) : Early life
stress is likely to be a risk factor for cardiovascular
disease in adulthood, researchers suggest. "We think
early life stress increases sensitivity to a hormone
known to increase your blood pressure and increases your
cardiovascular risk in adult life," said Jennifer
Pollock.
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ED - A WARNING OF FUTURE HEART ATTACKS
New York, Feb 9 (IANS) : Beware! Erectile
disorder (ED) could be a grim warning of future heart
attacks, stroke, atherosclerosis and congestive heart
failure. These findings are based on 12-year research
study conducted by the New England Research Institutes,
(NERI) in collaboration with San Francisco General
Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco
(UCSF).
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