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A Utah judge has set a date for an extradition hearing for imprisoned polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs, who is facing multiple felony charges in Texas.

The cult leader refused to sign extradition papers delivered to him last month at the Utah State Prison by Texas authorities.

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A councillor is facing a disciplinary hearing after calling the Church of Scientology "stupid" in a post on the Twitter website.

Wales' public standards watchdog said John Dixon is likely to have breached the code of conduct for local authority members with his short message last year.

Religion News Blog, whose publishers consider Scientology to be a destructive cult, often files news about the organization under the header 'hate group' -- in light of the cult's lengthy history of hate- and harassment activities.

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Syria's education minister has issued a decree banning women on university campuses from wearing veils that cover their faces.

The minister's decree follows a decision last month to dismiss 1200 Syrian school teachers who wear the face veil in class. Education officials, at the time, stressed that Syria was a "secular society," and that extremism is "unacceptable."

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