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• Suspect in Colo church shooting had been in prison
• Religion-based parties banned under new Libya law
• Pope stakes out church's course entering 8th year
• Is Russia's Orthodox Church privileged or persecuted?

Suspect in Colo church shooting had been in prison Posted: A man who shot and killed a woman at a Colorado church before he was killed by an off-duty police officer had been released early from an Oklahoma prison after serving time for assaulting two officers, authorities said Tuesday.

Religion-based parties banned under new Libya law Posted: Libyan authorities on Tuesday passed legislation governing the formation of political organisations which rules out religious, regional and tribal platforms and bans foreign funding.

Pope stakes out church's course entering 8th year Posted: Pope Benedict XVI began his eighth year as pope on Tuesday after spending the waning days of his seventh driving home his view of the Catholic Church, with a divisive crackdown on dissenters and an equally divisive opening to a fringe group of traditionalists.

Is Russia's Orthodox Church privileged or persecuted? Posted: Tens of thousands of people attended special services across Russia yesterday – about 50,000 in Moscow alone – to pray in defense of the Russian Orthodox Church, which insists that it is facing an unprecedented attack from irreligious social forces that are out to destroy its reputation and undermine the nation's faith.

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