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• TobyMac scores rare No. 1 Christian album on Billboard chart
• Plans for Gulf's biggest Catholic church stir backlash in troubled Bahrain
• Country singer Eric Church gets leading five CMA nominations
• Pope goes green with electric car
• Non-Muslims "in terror" in Pakistan, world churches say
• Eric Church truly surprised by CMA nominations

TobyMac scores rare No. 1 Christian album on Billboard chart Posted: 05 Sep 2012 02:04 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Christian singer TobyMac's "Eye on It" landed the top spot on the Billboard 200 Wednesday -- only the third time ever that a Christian album hit No.1 on the main U.S. album chart. "Eye on It" was also the first Christian disc since 1997 to notch the top spot on the Billboard 200 after selling 69,000 copies in its first week, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan. TobyMac, 47, who was one of the first Christian rappers, also debuted at No.1 on the Christian Albums chart. ...

Plans for Gulf's biggest Catholic church stir backlash in troubled Bahrain Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:30 PM PDT MANAMA, Bahrain - The building of the largest Roman Catholic church in the Gulf was supposed to be a chance for the tiny island kingdom of Bahrain to showcase its traditions of religious tolerance in a conservative Muslim region where churches largely operate under heavy limitations.

Country singer Eric Church gets leading five CMA nominations Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:27 PM PDT NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Singer Eric Church, whose career has rocketed over the past year, swept the 46th annual Country Music Association nominations on Wednesday with five nods, including one for best album for his hit, "Chief." Church, 35, also scored nominations for best male vocalist along with best song, single and video for "Springsteen," which tells the story of a couple who met at a Bruce Springsteen concert. Country music couple Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton each drew four nods, sharing one for song of the year for "Over You." They are also up for female and male ...

Pope goes green with electric car Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:37 AM PDT Pope Benedict XVI is now a bit greener.

Non-Muslims "in terror" in Pakistan, world churches say Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:06 AM PDT GENEVA (Reuters) - Minority religious communities in Pakistan are living in "fear and terror" of Islamic fundamentalists amid abductions and forced conversions that the government is helpless to stop, the World Council of Churches (WCC) said on Wednesday. A statement from the WCC's ruling Central Committee declared that Pakistan's small Hindu and Christian communities were increasingly subject to "persecution and discrimination", with mounting Islamisation of a formerly more secular nation. "Today a significant number of young women of religious minorities ... ...

Eric Church truly surprised by CMA nominations Posted: 05 Sep 2012 10:34 AM PDT No one was more surprised by Eric Church's leading five Country Music Awards nominations than the rising star from North Carolina. He didn't even know they were happening.

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