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• Judge halts church dance parties after shooting (AP)
• Muslim leaders boycott New York City mayor's event (Reuters)
• Muslims skip NYC mayor's event to protest spying (AP)
• Insight: Dark holiday in Detroit as Church downsizes (Reuters)
• Nigerian Christmas bomb death toll rises to 37 (Reuters)

Judge halts church dance parties after shooting (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2011 03:17 PM PST AP - Late-night dance parties at a downtown Chattanooga church were halted Friday by a judge just days after nine people were shot leaving a gathering early Christmas morning.

Muslim leaders boycott New York City mayor's event (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2011 02:27 PM PST Reuters - More than a dozen Muslim community leaders boycotted an interfaith breakfast organized by Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday to protest reported police surveillance of Muslim areas since the September 11, 2001, attacks.

Muslims skip NYC mayor's event to protest spying (AP) Posted: 30 Dec 2011 01:07 PM PST AP - Some religious leaders attending Mayor Michael Bloomberg's interfaith breakfast Friday expressed solidarity with Muslims upset about police department surveillance in their communities while more than a dozen leaders boycotted the yearly gathering that is meant to be a showcase of tolerance.

Insight: Dark holiday in Detroit as Church downsizes (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:32 AM PST Reuters - Emmanuel Miller comes to Saint Leo Catholic Church at least twice a month.

Nigerian Christmas bomb death toll rises to 37 (Reuters) Posted: 30 Dec 2011 01:10 PM PST Reuters - The death toll from a bomb attack on a church just outside Nigeria's capital Abuja on Christmas Day has risen to 37, with 57 people wounded, a source at the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Friday.

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