Wolrd Religion

Un-Christian behavior on the part of an attention-seeking 'pastor' and his 30-person fringe church in Gainsville, Florida, has led Muslim extremists in Afghanistan to savagely murder innocent people.

Terry Jones, the 58-year-old fundamentalist pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center, presided over what he called an "International Judge the Koran Day" on March 20, in which he supervised the burning of Islam's holy book in front of some 50 people.

 

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Five detained members of one of Iran's largest house church movements were to face a trial Monday, April 5, on charges of "blasphemy" which carries the death penalty in this strict Islamic nation.

The five Christians were initially arrested in June 2010 on charges of apostasy, political meetings, blasphemy and crimes against the Islamic Order.

 

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