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• NYPD monitoring of Muslim students sparks outrage (AP)
• Southern Baptists vote to keep name but add alternative (Reuters)
• Southern Baptist leaders OK 'Great Commission' (AP)
• Exclusive: Algeria to allow foreign NGOs to monitor vote (Reuters)

NYPD monitoring of Muslim students sparks outrage (AP) Posted: 21 Feb 2012 05:02 PM PST AP - New York's mayor is facing off with Yale University over efforts by the city's police department to monitor Muslim student groups.

Southern Baptists vote to keep name but add alternative (Reuters) Posted: 21 Feb 2012 03:56 PM PST Reuters - Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, the country's largest Protestant denomination, on Tuesday opted against changing a name that has proved problematic for some churches because of its connection to the South and slavery.

Southern Baptist leaders OK 'Great Commission' (AP) Posted: 21 Feb 2012 03:54 PM PST AP - Some Southern Baptists worry that their denomination's name still carries the stigma of a 19th century split with northern Baptists over slavery. Others who fought hard to build the brand and its conservative theology and politics don't want to see it go.

Exclusive: Algeria to allow foreign NGOs to monitor vote (Reuters) Posted: 21 Feb 2012 02:35 PM PST Reuters - Election observers from U.S. non-governmental organizations the Carter Center and the National Democratic Institute will for the first time be able to monitor a parliamentary election in Algeria later this year, the interior minister said on Tuesday.

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