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• Church of Scientology on trial in France (AFP)
• N.Ireland soccer mob beats Catholic man to death (AP)
• Austria: brawl in Sikh temple leaves preacher dead (AP)
• French court tries Church of Scientology (AP)
• Mass. church fire forces parade cancellation (AP)
• Pope seeks urgent reconciliation in China church (AP)

Church of Scientology on trial in France (AFP) Posted: 25 May 2009 12:36 PM PDT AFP - The Church of Scientology and six of its French leaders went on trial on Monday on charges of organised fraud that could lead to an outright ban on the organisation in France.

N.Ireland soccer mob beats Catholic man to death (AP) Posted: 25 May 2009 12:23 PM PDT AP - Militant Protestant supporters of a Scottish soccer team beat to death a Roman Catholic man in the latest sign of how sports rivalries inspire sectarian bloodshed in Northern Ireland, police and politicians said Monday.

Austria: brawl in Sikh temple leaves preacher dead (AP) Posted: 25 May 2009 11:52 AM PDT AP - Investigators believe a sermon at a Sikh temple set off an attack that saw worshippers use a frying pan and microphone stands to fend off knife- and gun-wielding assailants who fatally shot a cleric, police said Monday.

French court tries Church of Scientology (AP) Posted: 25 May 2009 11:03 AM PDT AP - The Church of Scientology could be dissolved in France if it is convicted in a trial that opened Monday in a Paris court, where the group and seven of its French leaders stand charged of organized fraud and illegal pharmaceutical activity.

Mass. church fire forces parade cancellation (AP) Posted: 25 May 2009 10:24 AM PDT AP - An four-alarm fire damaged a 161-year-old Massachusetts church and forced the town of Middleborough to cancel its Memorial Day parade.

Pope seeks urgent reconciliation in China church (AP) Posted: 25 May 2009 07:25 AM PDT AP - The Vatican on Monday urged Catholics in China's underground and official churches to take urgent, practical steps at reconciliation and forgiveness.

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