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Valentine's panty protest hits Hindu extremists (AFP) Posted: 11 Feb 2009 09:42 PM CST AFP - Nisha Susan is founder of the "Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women" -- a group she set up as a provocative response to a recent attack by Hindu extremists on young women drinking in a bar in southern India.

Austria: Priests criticize pope's bishop pick (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2009 04:04 PM CST AP - A group of Austrian priests has vehemently criticized Pope Benedict XVI's decision to promote an ultraconservative pastor who suggested Hurricane Katrina was provoked by sin in New Orleans, the group's head said Wednesday.

Religion news in brief (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2009 10:56 AM CST AP - Four Roman Catholic schools in Brooklyn that are in danger of closing due to declining enrollment might instead be converted into publicly funded charter schools under an unusual church-state partnership.

Obama treads fine line on church, state (AP) Posted: 11 Feb 2009 10:55 AM CST AP - President Barack Obama, signaling early in his administration that religion belongs in the public discourse, has promised to open a big tent to voices from across the spectrum of belief without crossing boundaries separating church and state.

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