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Wearing a full-length black niqab -- with only her brown eyes showing through narrow slits -- Widad Lootah does not look like a sexual activist.

Yet this conservative Muslim is one of the best known -- and most outspoken -- marriage counselors in the United Arab Emirates.

 

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Iranian authorities this week arrested Christian converts from Islam while they were meeting for worship at a home in the southern city of Shiraz, according to sources.

The sources put the number of the arrested Christians, who belong to one of Iran's many underground house churches, at between six and 10.

 

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Burmese troops kill or torture civilians and destroy churches and even entire villages of the predominantly Christian Kachin minority despite pledges from Burma's nominally civilian government that it seeks ceasefire agreements with ethnic groups, investigators say.

Rights group Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) said it recorded "grave human rights abuses" during a three week visit to the Rangoon and Kachin State on the China-Burma border.

 

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