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• Libya drops ban on religion-based parties
• Christian leader warns restraint ending in Nigeria
• Nigerian Christian leader in 'final' warning over attacks
• Libya drops ban on religion-based parties
• Libya drops ban on religion-based parties
• True Religion shares rise on strong 1Q earnings
• True Religion shares rise on strong 1Q earnings
• Are highly religious people less compassionate?
• Ireland's Catholic leader defends role in coverup of priest's child abuse, says he won't quit
• Top Irish Catholic faces new abuse cover-up claims

Libya drops ban on religion-based parties Posted: TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya has dropped a ban against parties based on religion, tribe or ethnicity, an official said, after the law irked Islamist parties in the run up to the first free election in June. The ruling National Transitional Council's judicial committee on Wednesday read out a raft of news laws including an amended version of one governing formation of political parties, making no mention of the ban, which was announced last week. ...

Christian leader warns restraint ending in Nigeria Posted: A top Christian leader in Nigeria warned Wednesday that worshippers would abandon their restraint if a campaign of suicide car bombings and gun assaults by a radical Islamist sect doesn't stop.

Nigerian Christian leader in 'final' warning over attacks Posted: The head of Nigeria's Christians on Wednesday issued a "final" warning to the government that it must bring an end to attacks targeting the faithful after a new surge in deadly violence in recent days.

Libya drops ban on religion-based parties Posted: TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya has dropped a ban against parties based on religion, tribe or ethnicity, an official said, after the law irked Islamist parties in the run up to the first free election in June. Members of the ruling National Transitional Council's judicial committee on Wednesday read out an amended version of a law governing the formation of political parties, making no mention of the ban, which was announced last week. ...

Libya drops ban on religion-based parties Posted: Libya's ruling National Transitional Council on Wednesday dropped a controversial ban against parties organised along religious, regional, tribal or ethnic lines.

True Religion shares rise on strong 1Q earnings Posted: True Religion, which makes high-end jeans, surprised Wall Street with better-than-expected first quarter, sending shares jumping 6 percent on Wednesday.THE SPARK: Late Tuesday, the company said its first-quarter ...

True Religion shares rise on strong 1Q earnings Posted: True Religion, which makes high-end jeans, surprised Wall Street with better-than-expected first quarter, sending shares jumping 6 percent on Wednesday.

Are highly religious people less compassionate? Posted: A new study suggests non-believers are more likely than the faithful to be generous when they see a stranger in need

Ireland's Catholic leader defends role in coverup of priest's child abuse, says he won't quit Posted: DUBLIN - The leader of Ireland's 4 million Catholics said Wednesday he wouldn't resign after a BBC documentary accused him of helping to cover up 1970s child abuse committed by a pedophile priest who went on to assault scores of other children for decades.

Top Irish Catholic faces new abuse cover-up claims Posted: The leader of Ireland's 4 million Catholics, Cardinal Sean Brady, faced renewed pressure to resign Wednesday after a BBC documentary accused him of helping to cover up child abuse committed by a notorious pedophile priest in the 1970s.

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