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• Pro-gay Bill C-250 will now become law | Controversial legislation dealing with homosexuality will now become law, despite last-ditch efforts by conservative pro-family groups. (Canadian Christianity)
  
  
• Robinson's bill on gay hate crime passed by Senate | The Senate passed a bill today to extend hate-crime protection to homosexuals, but MP Svend Robinson wasn't there to enjoy his hard-won victory. (Canadian Press)
  
  
• Hands off my Bible! | Today as Parliament reconvenes, MPs face a bill that could redefine biblical teachings on homosexuality as hate literature. (Globe and Mail)
  
  
• Thousands rally against C-250 | Protesters say anti-hate bill will stifle religious reform (Canadian Catholic News)
  
  

Muslim/Christian violence in Indonesia and Thailand:

• Indonesian attack claims rejected | Indonesia's military denied allegations that soldiers had taken part in an attack on a church in the eastern city of Ambon, which has been wracked by five days of Muslim-Christian violence. (The Age, Australia)
  
  
• Snipers still sowing fear in Indonesia's Ambon | Snipers are spreading fear in parts of the Indonesian island of Ambon but most of the city was calmer after four days of Muslim-Christian fighting which killed at least 37 people. (Channel News Asia, Singapore)
  
  
• Arroyo hands over reward for death of Abu Sayyaf leader | Philippines President Gloria Arroyo on Wednesday personally handed a reward of five million pesos (89,700 dollars) to a masked informant who helped troops kill a top Al Qaeda-linked terrorist. (AFP)Police vow to get tough in Ambon | Indonesia's police chief has pledged to disarm Christian separatist fighters in the troubled Maluku province amid claims soldiers took part in an attack on a church. (CNN)
  
  
• Hatred, mistrust reigns in Indonesia city | Zeth Supusepa, an Indonesian Christian, is in no mood for forgiveness as he explains how suspected Muslim attackers hurled a bomb at him outside a church in the eastern city of Ambon. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Ambon enjoys uneasy calm | Snipers spread terror in parts of Indonesia's Ambon, but most of the city was calm after four days of Muslim-Christian fighting which has killed at least 37 people.(The Age, Australia)
  
  
• US to hand over reward for Abu guerrilla's arrest | The United States is to reward a Filipino informant who led authorities to the arrest of an Abu Sayyaf Muslim guerrilla who beheaded an American hostage in 2001, the US embassy in Manila said Thursday. (Agence France-Presse)
  
  
• Tip sent 108 Thai rebels to deaths | Police and troops were lying in wait when the Islamic raiders attacked. The ensuing clashes and casualties underscore growing unrest in south. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Death at the mosque | Whatever the real explanation for yesterday's violence in southern Thailand - some Thais are already talking of a "massacre" - it is unlikely to reflect well either on Islamist leaders or on the government of Thaksin Shinawatra, the prime minister. (Financial Times)
  
  
• More than 100 dead in Muslim battles in Thailand | Troops and police killed more than 100 gun and machete-wielding Muslim militants Wednesday, including more than 30 in a three-hour mosque shoot-out, on a day of carnage in Thailand's restive south. (Reuters)
  
  
• Thai forces were ready for attacks | Over 100 militants killed in Muslim South (Washington Post)
  
  
• Tip sent 108 Thai rebels to deaths | Police and troops were lying in wait when the Islamic raiders attacked. The ensuing clashes and casualties underscore growing unrest in south. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

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