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• Man who performed baptisms sues LDS church (AP)
• Mayor seeks to calm cabbie, NYC after knife attack (AP)
• Wounded NY cabbie says religion had role in attack (Reuters)
• "Ordain women," London bus ads will urge Pope (Reuters)
• US groups denounce attack on Muslim taxi driver (AFP)

Man who performed baptisms sues LDS church (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2010 05:31 PM PDT AP - A Las Vegas man injured while performing submersion baptisms in the name of the dead has sued The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for medical expenses.

Mayor seeks to calm cabbie, NYC after knife attack (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2010 02:49 PM PDT AP - A Muslim cab driver whose face and throat were slashed in a suspected hate crime attack appeared with Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday as city officials sought to ease tensions in the debate over a plan to put a mosque near the site of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Wounded NY cabbie says religion had role in attack (Reuters) Posted: 26 Aug 2010 02:41 PM PDT Reuters - A Muslim taxi driver wounded in a stabbing said Thursday he believed he was attacked because of his religion but did not blame the public furor over a proposed Islamic center and mosque near the World Trade Center site.

"Ordain women," London bus ads will urge Pope (Reuters) Posted: 26 Aug 2010 01:17 AM PDT Reuters - Pope Benedict will be confronted by posters on London's famous red buses during his trip to the British capital next month which will call for the ordination of women priests.

US groups denounce attack on Muslim taxi driver (AFP) Posted: 25 Aug 2010 06:00 PM PDT AFP - New Yorkers, including the city's mayor, and several national US organizations, have strongly condemned the attack of a taxi driver believed to have been targeted because he is a Muslim.

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