Koran

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  Christians Pray Among Rubble Of Vandalised Church In Pakistan

  Christians sat among the rubble of their ransacked church for the first Sunday service since a Muslim mob rampaged through their neighbourhood in eastern Pakistan.

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  Malaysian State Wants Koranic Recitals For Cows To ''Improve Beef Quality''

  Cows in a conservative Malaysian state could be played Koranic recitals in the hope it will help them relax and improve the quality of their beef, a senior official said Thursday.

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  Jakarta Governor Basuki Purnama Fights Blasphemy Charges In Court

  Jakarta's Christian Governor returned to court on Tuesday to fight allegations of insulting the Koran that could see him jailed under tough blasphemy laws in the world's largest Muslim-majority country.

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  Afghan Woman Lynched Over Koran-Burning Was Innocent

  An Afghan woman who was beaten to death and set on fire by a mob for allegedly burning a copy of the Koran was innocent, the Interior Minister said today.

• Sri Lanka Buddhist Monks in Court Accused of Insulting Koran

  Four of Sri Lanka's most senior hardline Buddhist monks appeared in court Monday accused of insulting the Koran, in the first such case following a spate of religious hate attacks.

• Bangladesh deploys troops after attacks on Buddhists

  Bangladesh sent in troops to guard Buddhist neighbourhoods on Monday after Muslim mobs carried out fresh attacks on temples and homes over Facebook photos deemed offensive to Islam.

• Photos revealed of US troops posing with corpses

  In another embarrassment to the Pentagon, newly published photographs purport to show U.S. troops posing with the bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan.

• Afghan protests erupt over Quran 'burning'

  Protests erupted outside the main US military base in Afghanistan and in Kabul today over allegations that foreign troops had set fire to copies of the Quran, police said.

• A human touch for ancient scripts at Italy's book hospital

  Ancient manuscripts are treated like hospital patients at a famous book restoration institute in Rome that has worked on everything from the Dead Sea Scrolls to one of the oldest Korans in the world.

• US not at war with peace loving Islam: Obama

  On the eve of the ninth anniversary of the 9/11, President Barack Obama on Friday said that America is not at war with Islam, but against "a handful of tiny minority" who have distorted the preachings of this great religion.Asserting that the majority of the Muslims across the world are peace loving and do not support extremist ideologies, Obama sa...

• Finally, US pastor says he won't burn the Quran

  On a day of dramatic twists and turns, a US pastor today announced that he has no plans to go ahead with his earlier decision to burn the holy Quran and said he still expects the planned mosque near Ground Zero to be moved as part of a "deal" with a Florida imam.Pastor Terry Jones made the announcement that he has decided not to burn Quran during a...

• Israel behind Koran burning plan, says Iran

  Iran on Thursday said Israel was behind the plan by a US pastor to burn copies of the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, the official news Iranian agency reported."The software for this plan was made by the Zionists (Israel) following their defeats against Muslims and the Islamic world," Iranian Foreign Minis...

• 11 Afghans injured in anti-Koran-burning protests

  Thousands of Afghans are protesting small American church's plan to burn the Muslim holy book. Officials say at least 11 people have been injured.Police in the northern province of Badakhshan say several hundred of the demonstrators ran toward a NATO compound where four attackers and five police were injured in clashes. Protesters burned an America...

• One killed in Afghanistan protest over Koran burni

  At least one person was killed and six were injured in Afghanistan Friday in a protest over a US pastor's plan to burn the Koran on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, Xinhua reported.The protest was launched in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province as part of the widespread demonstration against a Florida pastor's controversial plan t...

• Koran burning still planned on September 11

  The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy said on Wednesday he was determined to go through with his plan to burn copies of the Koran on September 11, despite pressure from the White House, religious leaders and others to call it off."We are still determined to do it, yes," the Rev. Terry Jones told the CBS Early Show...