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• Britain wants IRA to deliver on promises | The outlawed Irish Republican Army must deliver soon on its July 28 promises to disarm and cease all threatening activities, the British secretary of state for Northern Ireland said Wednesday in his first major speech on the peace process (Associated Press)
• Romney's misstep with Muslims | By advocating ''monitoring" and ''wiretapping" of Massachusetts Islamic centers and foreign students, the governor has demonstrated not only a lack of cultural understanding and a disregard for civil liberties but also an alarming ignorance about effective methods of combating radicalism (Shahid Ahmed Khan, The Boston Globe)
• Do justly, love mercy? | American Presbyterians should reconsider their hostility toward Israel (Peter Hannaford, The American Spectator)

Christians, Muslims excluded from India's welfare bill:

• Christians, Muslims out of welfare Bill? | Old people from Christian and Muslim communities may end up being excluded from the purview of the important welfare legislation aimed at ensuring the heirs take care of 60-plus persons (The Times of India)
• Muslims, Christians outraged at exclusion from welfare bill | The government's decision to keep Christians and Muslims out of the ambit of a proposed welfare legislation for senior citizens has left community leaders puzzled and asking why they were not consulted on the move (IANS, India)

Persecution:

• German harassed for preaching Christianity | Saboteurs detonated the car of a German national and burned his house in southeast Yemen for preaching Christianity among the country's Muslim population (UPI)
• Bring anti-conversion bill before poll, demands JHU | More than one thousand Buddhist monks representing Jathika Sanga Sammelaneya (National Buddhist Convention), an umbrella Buddhis organization, including monks from Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), an extreme Sinhala nationlist party of Buddhist monks, attended a meeting held Tuesday evening to urge the Sri Lanka Government to bring to parliament the anti-conversion bill before the Sri Lanka Presidential elections scheduled for 17 November, sources in Colomb said (TamilNet, Sri Lanka)

Kenya's constitution:

• Religious leaders say vote should be put off | Religious leaders in Coast province yesterday asked President Kibaki to postpone the referendum. (The East African Standard, Kenya)
• Clerics call for dialogue before poll | Religious leaders in Mombasa have called for suspension of the referendum until contentious issues are resolved (The Nation, Kenya)

U.N. prosecutor says Vatican hid Croatian war criminal:

• Church denies hiding war crimes suspect | The Roman Catholic Church denied that it was sheltering a top Croatian war crimes suspect, after an allegation by a United Nations prosecutor (The New York Times)
• U.N. prosecutor faults Vatican in fugitive hunt | The chief prosecutor for the U.N. tribunal for Balkans war crimes has said that a Roman Catholic monastery in Croatia is sheltering a fugitive Croatian general charged with atrocities against Serb civilians and that the Vatican has refused pleas to help find him (The Washington Post)

Mexican church criticized for accepting drug money:

• Church in row over "purified" drug money | A Mexican bishop sparked a row with the government on Tuesday after he admitted the Catholic Church accepted alms from drug traffickers and that they were "purified" when they reached its coffers (Reuters)

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