Controversial Nativity Scene Attacked
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A waxwork nativity scene that features soccer star David Beckham and his pop star wife, Victoria, as the parents of Jesus has been damaged in an attack, Madame Tussauds museum said Monday.
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Â· Catholic leader demands NHS block on terminationsÂ· Communion challenge to pro-choice politicians
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Members of a radical Russian Orthodox  group speared a poster of U.S. pop star Madonna on Monday and  demanded a ban on her show in which she stages a  mock-crucifixion.
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Two pieces of Christian art that predate the Holocaust raise questions about anti-Semitism.
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A dig by a bishop about people who festoon their homes with Christmas lights may have touched a nerve with a grander member of his congregation - the Queen
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A half-finished painting in a Greek Orthodox church of Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin cutting off the beard of a Christian saint has offended traditionalists who want the revolutionary painted over.
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A nativity scene featuring David Beckham and his wife Victoria has been vandalised in a frenzied attack. The couple featured in a Madame Tussauds Christmas nativity display that attracted widespread controversy when it was unveiled last month.
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Dozens of nationalists protested against Pope Benedict's visit to predominantly Muslim Turkey and called on him to stay away from Aya Sofya, which was once Christianity's largest church and is now a museum.
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VIENNA, Austria (AP &#151; St. Nick, nein! A ban on St. Nicholas at Vienna's kindergartens is taking some of the ho-ho-ho out of the holidays for tens of thousands of tots this year. And it's creating a political ruckus, with opposition parties accusing City Hall of kowtowing to a growing Muslim population by showing Europe's Santa the kindergarten door.
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The standoff at one of Islam's holiest shrines parallels one at the Church of the Nativity in 2002.
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A proposal for a religious theme park in a fast-growing corner of the South has ignited fierce opposition.
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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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Parishioners ended their brief vigil at a Roman Catholic parish in Natick yesterday after police threatened to arrest anyone who refused to leave, a move critics say represents a bolder stance by church officials against sit-ins.
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A public Christmas festival is no place for the Christmas story, the city says. Officials have asked organizers of a downtown Christmas festival, the German Christkindlmarket, to reconsider using a movie studio as a sponsor because it is worried ads for its film "The Nativity Story" might offend non-Christians.
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Different interpretations of the Bible have been at the heart of an ongoing dispute among the world&#39;s Anglican Christians over the place of gays and lesbians in their churches.
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A protester has attacked a controversial waxwork nativity scene featuring England soccer captain David Beckham as Joseph and his pop star wife &quot;Posh Spice&quot; Victoria as the Virgin Mary.
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After the killing of Dutch moviemaker Theo Van Gogh on November 2nd, there have been a spate of retaliations towards Muslims. So far, more than 20 Muslim institutions have been attacked and a mosque in the town of Helden was set on fire yesterday.