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• Bible ban lifted | Acting Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi banning the holy book would spark the anger of the Iban Christian community as it had been published and used for decades (New Straits Times)
  
  
• Pakistani Christian gets life imprisonment for blasphemy | Ranjha Masih was accused of tearing down a billboard carrying verses from the Koran in Faisalabad during a Christian demonstration after the city's bishop committed suicide over the 1985 blasphemy law (AFP)

Interfaith relations:

• Expert: Christian leaders defused Muslim tension | Opposition from Christian leaders failed to prevent the U.S.-led war on Iraq, but it may have stopped Muslim retaliation against Christians in the Middle East, says Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, president of the Vatican's Council for Interreligious Dialogue (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Day of prayer turning into day of discord | Non-Christians are told they can attend prayer services, but they can't pray to their own God (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Progressive Conservative party official censured for 'Islamophobic' e-mail | Stephen Leach angrily responded to Council on American-Islamic Relations' criticism of evangelism plans (CBC)
  
  
• For Muslims, a mixture of White House signals | When President Bush travels to Michigan to speak to Arab-Americans, he will trail behind him considerable uncertainty about his administration's intentions toward Islam (The New York Times)
  
  
• Arab Christians at a crossroads | Christian minorities in the Arab world in countries such as Iraq, Syria and Lebanon had played an influential role in shaping Arab nationalism (Atul Aneja, The Hindu, India)

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