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• UC Davis removes Web wording that upset Christians (AP)
• Bahrain pulled back from "sectarian abyss": foreign minister (Reuters)
• German minister given deadline in plagiarism flap (AP)
• Russians worship 'miraculous' icon of tsar (AFP)
• Austria grants refuge to 30 Iraqi Christians (AP)
• Vatican: pope, Russian leader want stronger ties (AP)

UC Davis removes Web wording that upset Christians (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:32 PM PST AP - The University of California at Davis has eliminated from its website a definition of religious discrimination that offended more than two dozen Christian students.

Bahrain pulled back from "sectarian abyss": foreign minister (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 09:55 AM PST Reuters - Police action was necessary to pull Bahrain back from the "brink of a sectarian abyss," the Gulf Arab state's Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed al-Khalifa said Thursday.

German minister given deadline in plagiarism flap (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 09:07 AM PST AP - A German university on Thursday gave the country's defense minister two weeks to respond to allegations that he plagiarized part of his doctoral thesis.

Russians worship 'miraculous' icon of tsar (AFP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 08:33 AM PST AFP - Hundreds of believers gathered Thursday at an Orthodox fair in the former imperial capital of Saint Petersburg to worship a "miracle-working" icon of Russia's last monarch.

Austria grants refuge to 30 Iraqi Christians (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 07:35 AM PST AP - Austria says it is granting asylum to 30 Iraqi Christians fleeing persecution in their homeland.

Vatican: pope, Russian leader want stronger ties (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2011 06:10 AM PST AP - Pope Benedict XVI and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met at the Vatican on Thursday, stressing the need for better ties and the promotion of shared Christian values, the Holy See said.

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