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More allegations of underage marriages are surfacing involving the Utah-based Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

It comes as a fight is brewing over leadership of the 10,000-member polygamous church and a dramatic turnabout of control of the church's real-estate holdings arm.

 

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Two Muslim women wearing full face veils have been arrested within hours of France's burka ban becoming a law, as they were taking part in a demonstration against the new measure in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in central Paris

 

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Two Indian Christians of a thriving Pentecostal house church in Saudi Arabia have been moved from pre-trial detention to a prison in the Saudi capital Ryadh where they are "forbidden to pray or read the Bible" and "suffer of a lack of food and medical attention."

The two were initially detained in January and received 45-days of "pre-trial detention" on charges of attempted proselytizing.

 

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A law banning the wearing of garments that cover the face in public has today come into force in France -- the first European country to impose such a ban. Penalties for forcing a person to wear a burqa are part of the law.

The ban is seen as primarily affecting Muslim women who wear the niqab or burqa.

 

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