Crumbling French churches spark unholy row
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The village church and its  steeple have dominated the skyline of rural France for  centuries, surviving feuding warlords, foreign invasion and the  upheavals of the French Revolution.
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&quot;All across Britain, derelict churches are being bought up by corporate chains and turned into superpubs with space for hundreds of drinkers.
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A teacher in France is the latest to face death threats for daring to criticize the religion and its prophet's emphasis on violence
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Two churches in the West Bank were hit by firebombs early Saturday, witnesses and clergy said, and a group claiming responsiblity said the attacks were meant as a protest against comments by Pope Benedict XVI about Islam.
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The Spanish government sparked a furious row yesterday after it emerged that it had drawn up a timetable to halve state funding of the Roman Catholic Church and to ban crucifixes from public buildings.
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France launched a hunt for arsonists who destroyed a Jewish centre in Paris after daubing it with anti-Semitic graffiti and swastikas -- the latest in a wave of anti-Jewish acts that has unsettled the country.
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Art thieves are targeting Europe's churches, exploiting lax security to strip them of priceless treasures that they hawk on the black market?
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The Catholic Church in Scotland expresses dismay at figures showing its members are more likely to suffer sectarian abuse.
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Once again, arson struck a Jewish center in Paris, and once again condemnations by French government leaders are heard in what has become a routine.
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The expulsion of a priest from a church in south-west France has set off a fresh debate about celibacy.
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Christian symbols are being denigrated over Christmas says a leader of the Catholic Church of England and Wales.
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Church of England authorities were livid when the Stone of Destiny was moved from Westminster Abbey.
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The tattered cloth scraps started arriving at St. John's Lutheran Church shortly after the Rev. Bradley Schmeling took his stand against the church hierarchy, each with an embroidered or drawn message of support.
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Pope Benedict XVI blasted Europeans for being selfish and not having enough children, in a sermon on Saturday at the 850-year-old pilgrimage site of Mariazell in Austria.
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The drive by a revitalized Russian Orthodox Church to weave its tenets into the education system has prompted a backlash.
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Vandals have scrawled swastikas and âSSâ initials on Jewish tombs in eastern France, an anti-Semitic attack that President Jacques Chirac has called âintolerableâ.
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Proposed social reforms in Spain spark Catholic anger about a perceived erosion of family values.