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• Swiss minister's giggling fit an online hit (AP)
• NY voters support right to build Muslim center: poll (Reuters)
• Catholic, Orthodox report promising progress on unity (Reuters)
• Gay film festival opens in Muslim-majority Indonesia (AFP)

Swiss minister's giggling fit an online hit (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2010 11:30 AM PDT AP - Switzerland's finance minister has sparked hilarity in the Alpine nation by collapsing into giggles while answering a parliamentary question about imports of cured meats.

NY voters support right to build Muslim center: poll (Reuters) Posted: 24 Sep 2010 09:48 AM PDT Reuters - A majority of New Yorkers say a Muslim group has a right to build an Islamic center and mosque near the site of the September 11 attacks in Manhattan but think it should be built elsewhere, according to a poll released on Friday.

Catholic, Orthodox report promising progress on unity (Reuters) Posted: 24 Sep 2010 08:36 AM PDT Reuters - Roman Catholic and Orthodox theologians reported promising progress Friday in talks on overcoming their Great Schism of 1054 and bringing the two largest denominations in Christianity back to full communion.

Gay film festival opens in Muslim-majority Indonesia (AFP) Posted: 24 Sep 2010 05:31 AM PDT AFP - A gay film festival hailed as the biggest in Asia and the only one in the Muslim world kicks off in Indonesia on Friday, hoping to draw 15,000 viewers to screenings and fringe events.

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