By Martin Beckford
Published: 7:30AM GMT 23 Dec 2009
The Telegraph UK

Verses are being changed by clergy and teachers to remove supposedly
chauvinistic references to men, sons and kings, making them “gender
inclusive”.

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By BABAR DOGAR
The Associated Press
Tuesday, December 22, 2009; 10:22 AM

LAHORE, Pakistan -- A Pakistani court has ordered the noses and ears of
two men cut off after they did the same thing to a young woman whose
family spurned one of the men's marriage proposal, a prosecutor said
Tuesday.

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By Francis X. Rocca, Religion News Service\

VATICAN CITY — Jewish leaders are outraged and warned of new strains in
Catholic-Jewish relations after Pope Benedict XVI moved the
controversial Pope Pius XII one step closer to sainthood.

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AFP - Wednesday, December 23

[Serbian President Boris Tadic gives a press conference at the European
headquarters in Brussels in...] Serbian President Boris Tadic gives a
press conference at the European headquarters in Brussels in November.
Serbia has officially submitted its application for membership of the
European Union to the Swedish EU presidency.

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - – Serbia on Tuesday officially submitted its European
Union membership application to the Swedish EU presidency in Stockholm.

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