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• Nine people accuse Philadelphia church of sexual abuse
• Free speech, religion clash over anti-Muslim film
• Egypt: Court sentences Christian to 6 years for posts insulting Prophet Muhammad and president
• Free speech, religion clash over anti-Islam film

Nine people accuse Philadelphia church of sexual abuse Posted: 18 Sep 2012 01:53 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Eight men and a woman publicly accused Roman Catholic priests and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia on Tuesday of child sex abuse, saying they found courage to come forward after the conviction in June of a top church official in the wide-ranging pedophilia scandal. The nine filed civil lawsuits accusing the Archdiocese and church officials of conspiring to conceal incidents of sex abuse, failing to address the problem and ignoring complaints about abusive clergy, according to attorneys who announced the cases at a news conference in Philadelphia. ...

Free speech, religion clash over anti-Muslim film Posted: 18 Sep 2012 01:31 PM PDT While the man behind an anti-Islam movie that ignited violence across the Middle East would likely face swift punishment in his native Egypt for making the film, in America the government is in the thorny ...

Egypt: Court sentences Christian to 6 years for posts insulting Prophet Muhammad and president Posted: 18 Sep 2012 09:52 AM PDT CAIRO - A court in southern Egypt has sentenced a Coptic Christian teacher to six years in prison for posting on his Facebook page drawings that it ruled insulted Islam's Prophet Muhammad and comments deemed an affront to the country's president.

Free speech, religion clash over anti-Islam film Posted: 18 Sep 2012 02:11 AM PDT The U.S. government's protection of free speech rights is clashing with religion abroad in the case of an Egyptian-born American citizen whose anti-Islamic film has sparked protests in the Middle East.

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