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A fundraising auction in Denmark on Tuesday generated debate about free speech after the auction house declined to include a water colour by the newspaper cartoonist who caused outrage among Muslims worldwide in 2006, DPA reports.

A Muslim hate criminal recently attempted to kill the cartoonist

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Japan's Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by a former high-ranking member of the AUM-Shinrikyo cult convicted of murder and other crimes, meaning the death sentence handed down to him in earlier rulings will become fixed.

The man is the 10th member of AUM Shinrikyo to have a death sentence fixed

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A Vietnamese man violently forced to recant his fledgling Christian faith faces pressure from authorities and clansmen to prove his return to traditional Hmong belief by sacrificing to ancestors next month.

Documentation of forced recantations in northwest Vietnam indicates authorities are contravening Vietnam's 2004/2005 public religion policy.

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Over 40 people have been killed in the Nigerian city of Jos in the country's Plateau State, after around 200 Muslim youths attacked Christians near a Catholic Church sparking retaliatory violence, Christian rights investigators said Monday, January 18.

According to one observer the apparent refusal by authorities to prosecute those responsible for previous attacks against Christians contributed to Sunday's clashes.

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