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• DNA test to probe high mortality rate in Jain sect | A country-wide DNA test is being conducted to investigate increasing mortality among the Kutchhi Dasha Oswal, one of the Jain community's sects hailing from the Kutch region of Gujarat. (IANS)
  
  
• Canadians Muslims will get sharia courts to settle disputes | Canada is embarking on an unusual judicial experiment that will allow members of its Muslim community to submit to the teachings of the Koran to resolve a variety of civil legal disputes, ranging from divorces to business conflicts. (The Independent, UK)
  
  
• Quilts are stars at Mennonite relief sale | The relief sale in Brooklyn Park is just one of about 40 Mennonite relief sales that are conducted each year around the United States and Canada. The sales have been going on for years, often in areas with large communities of Mennonites, who are Christians with Anabaptist origins. (Sun Newspapers, Minnesota)
  
  
• Kroger pulls Christian newspaper from free racks | Citing a policy to exclude political and Christian publications from their free racks, Kroger executives have removed The Southeast Outlook, published by Southeast Christian Church. (WLKY, Louisville, Kentucky)
  
  

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