Christian graves desecrated with swastikas
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A visitor to the cemetery in the town of Audincourt, south of Strasbourg, on Sunday found the graves defaced with the symbols from the German Nazi era.
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Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans' graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday.
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A monument to the Soviet soldiers who fell in fights for the liberation of Estonia has been desecrated in that Baltic republic, the newspaper Ohtuleht reported on Monday.
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The acrid scent of explosives and fire hovered inside the gutted church as Iraqi Christians baptized Savio Mar Georgis. By Muhannad Fala&#39;ah, Getty Images.
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Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians were last night locked in dispute over an 800-year-old war crime and a box of 1,600-year-old bones that was meant to have brought them a giant step closer to reunification.
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ROME The Vatican said Monday that anti-Christian elements were ravaging Europe with a new Inquisition that had claimed a devout Roman Catholic Italian minister because he expressed his faith and called homosexuality a sin.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A five-page letter pinned to the body of a Dutch filmmaker brutally murdered after making a movie critical of Islam called for Muslims to rise up against the &quot;infidel enemies&quot; in the West.
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Former President Slobodan Milosevic's grave has been desecrated by a man who pierced it with a wooden pole in an ancient Balkan ritual to make sure that an evil spirit never returns, his former party said Monday.
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BERLIN  - The director and producers of a documentary about Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where convicted war criminals are among the 2.5 million venerated souls, have received multiple death threats from right-wing groups that want to prevent the movie's local release.
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The controversial waxwork nativity scene portraying David Beckham and his wife, ex-Spice Girl Victoria as Joseph and Virgin Mary, criticized by Church leaders as disrespectful, has become subject to vandalism.
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The museum aims to insert peace into a culture that glorifies martyrdom.
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Campaigners for animal rights condemn the desecration of a grave in which a woman's remains were stolen.
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The skeletal remains of at least 51 people &#151; many of them children &#151; have been unearthed, and authorities suspect some were killed by the Nazis because they were disabled and considered worthless by the regime.
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Speakers at this week's Republican convention make their remarks at a wooden podium that some Jewish groups find offensive because its decorative panels appear to form the shape of a Christian cross.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Throughout the battle that smashed crypts, splintered memorial plaques, and scattered unexploded bombs across the Valley of Peace cemetery in Najaf, US troops painted the decision of the Mahdi Army rebels to fight among the graves as a sign of disrespect for the religion they say they defend.
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Graffiti mocking the controversial death of a Protestant teenager is removed by nationalists.
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A Jewish group said Sunday it plans to &quot;modify&quot; an anti-Semitism publicity campaign that showed images of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary after the advertisements drew negative reactions.