Jews and Muslims bond in France
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French Muslim and Jewish groups hold landmark talks on tackling racism and boosting understanding.
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CLAMART, France  - At a solemn vigil outside the hospital treating Yasser Arafat, an unusual interfaith moment: an Orthodox Jewish rabbi from New York leaves flowers for the ailing Palestinian leader at the front gate.
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PARIS For most of the last three years Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot have been largely inseparable. The two French journalists became fast friends when they met in Amman, Jordan, in 2001, according
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French critics and defenders of a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools united in support of the law on Monday, pledging to stand firm against militants holding two French
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For decades, Jersey City has been an experiment in peace between Muslims and Christians from Egypt. But since a family was found slain, a centuries-old rift has surfaced.
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PARISâThe death in a French military hospital of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Thursday marks the end of a particularly eventful chapter in the history of relations between Israelis and Palestinians.
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PARIS -- It was easier for 16-year-old Nadia Arabi to remove her Islamic head scarf yesterday than to defy a new law banning religious signs in the classroom, or to risk contempt for breaking a national chain of solidarity for two Frenchmen held hostage by militants in Iraq.
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In the latest anti-semitic attack to shock France, arsonists attacked a Jewish community centre in the 11th arrondissement of Paris in the early hours of yesterday and daubed Nazi symbols on its walls, doors and furniture.
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Muslims and Jews, a tiny slice of the U.S. population, are looking for new ways to get along that could set a worldwide example for two ancient but often alienated faiths, religious leaders and experts say.
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French Muslims jammed Paris' main mosque Friday to pray for two journalists taken hostage in Iraq - a show of unity with the government despite Muslims' opposition to a new law banning Islamic head scarves in ...
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A French Muslim delegation in Iraq trying to win the release of two French journalists held hostage by Islamic militants said Thursday they had received proof the men were alive and well. The kidnappers have demanded that Paris rescind a law banning Muslim headscarves.
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Despite making up only 10 percent of the population, Muslims account for most of France's inmates.
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Controversy erupted when Muslims went looking for fun, but the event was a moment of harmony
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The relations of French officialdom have been uneasy of late. First there was the matter of the headscarf, which has been followed by a row over whether or not to ban broadcasts by the Al-Manar (The Beacon
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Top Palestinian officials are to meet the French president in the hope of visiting the ailing Yasser Arafat.
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A delegation of prominent rabbis and Jewish leaders from around the world met with Pope John Paul II on Tuesday to thank him for what they called a lifelong commitment to the defense of Jews.
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Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom is to fly to France for talks on a growing spate of attacks on Europe's largest Jewish community, his ministry announced late Monday.