Thursday, October 27, 2005

Four dead following rioting as Muslims take offense at Christian DVD release
By Nick Weinberg

SECTARIAN tensions escalated into violence last Friday in Alexandria, Egypt, sparked by a week of protests over a stage play deemed offensive to Muslims. Muslim and Christian leaders called for an end to the clashes on Saturday, a day after 5,000 Muslim rioters rampaged through two predominantly Christian neighbourhoods in the city, which resulted in four people dead and at least 90 more injured. The play, performed two years earlier in the St George’s Coptic Church, was recently distributed on DVD, angering a large section of Alexandria’s predominantly Muslim community.
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Evicted worshippers attacked by militants
Date: OCT 28

INDONESIAN Christians, forced to pray in the streets following eviction from their churches, were attacked by Islamic militants as they met to worship last week. Congregations from three churches in the Bekasi area of West Java, closed down five weeks ago, were set upon by members of the radical Islamic group Alliance Against Apostasy. Around 300 militants prevented the congregation, who have been banned from worshipping in churches or their homes, from carrying out their own service in the street.
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