China Detains Eight Priests and a Living Buddha -Groups
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China has detained eight Roman Catholic  priests in a crackdown on those loyal to the Pope and arrested  a "Living Buddha" for arousing superstition at the re-opening  of a temple, U.S. groups said on Wednesday.
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Chinese police have shut down a Web  site selling real-time porn and arrested 33 people, state media  said on Wednesday, part of a campaign which led to the  shut-down of 44,000 Web sites and arrest of 868 people last  year.
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Militant Buddhist monks in Myanmar who had taken about 20 officials hostage in a monastery freed them after intervention by a senior abbot, said a senior monk.
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Chinese police have detained two  brothers who killed 12 people, most of them women working in  nightclubs and bath houses whom they robbed and dismembered in  a 15-month spree, a newspaper said on Thursday.
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China arrests 10 people accused of copying and distributing explicit images of Hong Kong actor Edison Chan.
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The Vatican accused China Saturday  of launching a fresh crackdown on Roman Catholics, upping the  ante in its war of words against the Communist state.
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LONDON: British police arrested eight fathers' rights activists yesterday after an abortive attempt to scale a church on Queen Elizabeth's country estate.
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Chinese authorities detained a prominent, U.S.-based Buddhist leader in connection with his plans to reopen an ancient temple complex in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia last week and have forced dozens of his American followers to leave the region, local officials said Wednesday.
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Hundreds of Muslim men have been freed in southern Thailand but many others face prosecution after they were detained in a protest, which left 85 dead and outraged Muslims worldwide.
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Israel detains more than 30 senior Hamas officials, including the Palestinian education minister.
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BEIJING -- Chinese authorities have detained a prominent, US-based Buddhist leader in connection with his plans to reopen an ancient temple complex in the province of Inner Mongolia last week and have forced dozens of his American followers to leave the region, local officials said yesterday.
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Chinese authorities have demolished a statue of a Buddhist master at Tibet's oldest monastery, an activist group said Friday, the latest act in what critics say is an effort by Beijing to dilute Tibet's unique Buddhist culture.
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Police in the southern Indian state of Kerala detain 15 people over attacks on nuns and priests.
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Police have detained an eighth suspect in the slaying of a Dutch filmmaker, allegedly by a group accused of threatening to kill several Dutch politicians in the name of Islam, prosecutors said Saturday.
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BEIJING : A farmer has been arrested in China for hacking eight people to death with an axe after being released from prison for the rape of a woman who became one of his victims.
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Hard-line Pakistani religious students on a crusade against vice kidnapped nine people, including six Chinese women, on Saturday and accused them of running a brothel. The nine were released after about 17 hours.
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Eight Chinese Christians will stand trial on December 22, accused of inciting violent resistance to the law after they protested the government's destruction of a church, a Chinese dissident and a court official said on Friday.