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- Christians are 'crucified' in guerrilla raids by Lord's Resistance Army
- Elizabeth Smart Can Testify in Accused Kidnapper's Competency Hearing
- Whitehouse denied Harry Potter author medal over witchcraft
- Polygamists Seek Decriminalization Of Their Lifestyle
- Workers at Unification Church-related company pressure customers into expensive purchases
- Muslim scholar calls for death penalty over virginity-faking device
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Marauding bands of guerrillas have crucified seven Christians during a series of raids on villages in Sudan.
One of the men was tied to a tree and mutilated while six other victims were nailed to pieces of wood fastened to the ground and killed.
Villagers who found their bodies near the town of Nzara said it was like a "grotesque crucifixion scene".
Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambio has now appealed for international help to stop the attacks by members of the Lord's Resistance Army.
A federal judge has ruled that Elizabeth Smart can testify in the upcoming mental competency hearing for her accused kidnapper.
In a ruling issued Monday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Dale A. Kimball denied a defense motion to bar Smart from testifying in the case of Brian David Mitchell.
A memoir by George W Bush's former speechwriter claims that Bush administration officials objected to giving JK Rowling a presidential medal of freedom on the grounds that her Harry Potter books "encouraged witchcraft".
Latimer, whose memoir Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor was published last week by Crown in the US, says that the "narrow thinking" of "people in the White House" led them "to actually object to giving the author JK Rowling a presidential medal because the Harry Potter books encouraged witchcraft".
See also: Harry Potter is converting Christian critics, Christian themes abound in Potter and How the boy wizard won over religious critics -- and the deeper meaning theologians now see in his tale
The Utah Attorney General's Office has declined to prosecute a case of polygamy alone, citing resource issues of building prisons for tens of thousands of polygamists and creating an enormous burden on the welfare system to care for their wives and children.
Instead, prosecutors have followed Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff's advice in going after crimes within polygamy -- including child-bride marriages, abuse, and fraud.
Four members of a seal stamp company in Osaka, Japan have been arrested for intimidating customers into buying expensive products.
The suspects -- whose company is connected to the Unification Church, a religious cult -- contacted three women through fortune-telling services and threathened them over many hours.
A leading Egyptian scholar has demanded that people caught importing a female virginity-faking device into the country should face the death penalty.
Abdul Mouti Bayoumi said supplying the item was akin to spreading vice in society, a crime punishable by death in Islamic Sharia law.
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