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Religion News Roundup, including: False prophet Harold Camping wants the world to end; Nuns in exorcism case released from prison; and Christian therapist who claims she can help gay men go straight faces being struck off. Also: a popular Bible app, some newly published religion books, and much more.

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A French couple being evicted from a farm in South Africa allegedly shot dead a policeman, wounded another, then chased a third policeman and the farmer's sons in a bakkie through the bush for four kilometres.

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Churches in Pakistan have expressed frustration over the government's refusal to amend a controversial blasphemy law, as urged by the Pope and protesting civil rights activists.

"We are disappointed by the stand taken by the Prime Minister," said Joseph Francis, director of CLAAS (Centre for Legal Aid Assistance & Settlement), which has defended dozens of Christians and Muslims charged under the law.

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