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Nigeria riots:

1. Nigeria counts 100 deaths over Danish caricatures | The violence linked to anger over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad has reignited old ethnic and political tensions between Nigeria's Muslims and Christians (The New York Times)
   
   
2. Religious fighting breaks out again in Nigeria | Christian youths armed with machetes, stones and clubs attacked Muslims in the southeastern Nigerian city of Enugu on Friday and a Reuters witness saw a mob beat one man to death. Meanwhile, in north-central Niger state, in the town of Kotangora, the Red Cross reported that Muslims attacked Christians and churches had been torched (Reuters)
   
   
3. Calm returns to Onitsha | Calm yesterday returned to Onitsha, Anambra State's main commercial city after two days of reprisals for the killing of Igbo Christians by Moslem fanatics in Maiduguri, Borno State last weekend (This Day, Nigeria)
   
   
4. Onitsha crisis youths burn corpses | Rioters burnt the corpses of the dead yesterday on the streets of Onitsha, the city worst hit by religious riots that have killed at least 138 people across the country in five days (Daily Trust, Nigeria)
   
   
5. Religious crises: More attacks likely | As tension continues to mount in parts of the country over Danish cartoons of Prophet Muhammed, the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), yesterday, raised alarm over fresh plot by some muslim fanatics to attack Christians and churches again in Borno State and other states in the north (Daily Champion, Nigeria)
   
   
6. Nigeria's killing fields | It is unacceptable that a demonstration to protest blasphemy was then allowed to lead to the killing of innocent Christians and the destruction of churches in Maiduguri (Editorial, Daily Trust, Nigeria)
   
   

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War & terrorism:

1. Christians under cover | If Hamas installs strict Islamic religious rule, Palestinian Christians stand to become a legally subjugated minority inside Palestinian society (Lauren Gelfond Feldinger, The Jerusalem Post)
   
   
2. Church leaders praise Muslim community | Toledo's Muslim community was praised by a Christian minister and a rabbi last night for its role in helping authorities identify three terrorist suspects arrested Tuesday (The Toledo Blade, Oh.)
   
   
3. Praying for the soldiers | More than 100 people gathered before sunrise for the National Prayer Breakfast at the fort in Hampton (Daily Press, Hampton Roads, Va.)
   
   

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Politics & law:

1. IRS: Charities overstepping into politics | IRS exams found nearly three out of four churches, charities and other civic groups suspected of having violated restraints on political activity in the 2004 election actually did so, the agency said Friday (Associated Press)
   
   
2. Judge okays vote on gay-marriage ban | ACLU to appeal, says legislature broke rules (The Tennessean)
   
   

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