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Hindus Urge `Uniform & Kinder` EU Migration Policy

Rajan Zed urged Pope Francis and other religious leaders of the world to take up this issue with EU as religion told us to help the helpless.

(RENO) - In view of recent tragic incidents resulting in deaths of migrants, Hindus want European Union (EU) to come up with a uniform and kinder EU-wide migration policy.

Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that the loss of migrants’ life heading to Europe, with one shocking incident after another, was not acceptable. How many more people needed to die before EU took the issue seriously and fixed the policy, Zed asked?

PAKISTAN: Pastors Booked Under Blasphemy in Lahore

The incident took place at the shop of Mushtaq Masih on 8th October 2013 and FIR No. 675/13 registered on 9 October, 2013 at about 12:05 midnight.

(LAHORE, Pakistan) - Police registered a blasphemy case against Pastors Adnan, Arfan and Mushtaq Masih, under blasphemy laws, Sections of 295,295 A,295 B, 295 C Pakistan Penal Code.

The three were charged under Sections 295 A, B and C of PPC at Police Station Township on the complaint of a Muslim man, Abid Mehmood s/o Muhammad Ashraf Aqib, 153 A Lala Zar Colony Pagat Pura Shadbagh.

Israeli Soldiers Line Up, Shoot and Kill 3 Young Palestinian Girls

People who ask why this would take place, need to understand that the Israel military is ingrained with the thought that all Palestinian children will someday grow up to be their enemy, and threaten their lives...

(CARLSBAD, NM) - A little Palestinian girl named Summer tells a story from an Egyptian hospital bed that seems too horrible to be true. Her younger sisters, the girls says, were lined up and shot to death by soldiers from the Israeli Defence Forces.

The BBC located the girl's father, he cried as he reviewed the events that led to so much loss. He says the girls were killed shortly before 1:00 in the afternoon, the father said, "We were told to come out of the homes, the women, my three daughters".

Dissolving Ties with Rome

A Special Report from The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) and its affiliate, ITCCS Ireland (submitted by ITCCS Central with the help of Mary Hennessey and Ciaran Ui Niall)

(DUBLIN) - Four years ago, this city on the Liffey River hosted the formation of the ITCCS: a grassroots movement that has successfully prosecuted and deposed one pope and rallied survivors of church crimes in twenty one countries.

Today, Dublin is once again witnessing the birth of an historic movement, an offshoot of the ITCCS: a network of Roman Catholic priests who are aiming to break away from Rome, and establish an independent Irish Church that is free of any complicity with the crimes of the Vatican.

Did Jayewardene Deceive Rajiv Gandhi? - M.A. Sumanthiran

Rajiv Gandhi or his advisers, unlike Indira Gandhi, were the least concerned about the welfare of the Eelam Tamils. If he was, he would not have signed the Indo - Sri Lankan Accord with so many clauses that are disadvantageous to the Tamils.

(MELBOURNE) - On the advice of dubious Indian advisers and the Indian Intelligence, RAW, Rajiv Gandhi embarked on a policy of dismantling the militant movements and disarming them.

This was a 180 degrees policy change from Indira Gandhi, who advocated the freeing of Tamils from the clutches of the Sinhalese by their own effort. The advisers gave Rajiv at least 3 reasons for it.

Israel`s Reaction to EU Sanctions: `Anti-Semitism,` Comparison to Nazism

"Without. Israel, widespread anti-Semitism in post-Holocaust Europe would most likely not have awakened from its dormancy."
- Hillel Halkin

(WASHINGTON DC) - Under guidelines adopted by the executive European Commission in June, Israeli "entities" operating in the West Bank and East Jerusalem will not be eligible for European Union (EU) grants, prizes or loans in the future.

Some 500,000 Israelis live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem among 2.5 million Palestinians. Israel captured those territories, along with the Palestinian Gaza Strip and Syrian Golan Heights, in the 1967 war.

Myanmar Religious Leaders Urge Harmony After Anti-Muslim Clashes

Muslim residents told the Associated Press that during the clashes—in which a 94-year-old woman was stabbed to death—local police had failed to protect them a mob of hundreds of Buddhists armed with knives and sticks who went on a rampage in Pauktaw and Thabyuchine villages.

(YANGON RFA) - Religious leaders in a western Myanmar town reeling from deadly anti-Muslim clashes urged calm on Monday after fresh violence broke out in the country’s central Irrawaddy Delta region.

On Sunday night a mob of Buddhist residents destroyed five Muslim houses in the region’s Kyaunggon township, some 70 miles (100 kilometers) outside the former capital Yangon.

Expect More Failed Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations

Israel has erected a wall or fence, which cuts deep into Palestinian territory, joining large Jewish settlement blocks to Israel, further confining the Palestinians to isolated enclaves.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams met again on October 3, 2013 for the eighth time since direct peace talks were resumed in late July. No one but the eternally optimistic expects any meaningful result from these negotiations.

The history of these negotiations is merely camouflage for the systematic annexation of the West Bank by way of settlement construction hoping that this will encourage Palestinian emigration. In short, a state for Palestine and one for Israel is but an illusion.

Saudi Arabia:Immediately and Unconditionally Drop all Charges Against Waleed Abu Al-Khair

Human Rights Ambassador William Nicholas Gomes expresses his concern regarding the arrest of Waleed Abu Al-Khair, which is a worrying step in the judicial harassment of the human rights defender, along with the travel ban imposed upon him since 2012.

(Riyadh) - On 2 October 2013, human rights defender and lawyer Mr Waleed Abu Al-Khair was arrested in Jeddah city and charged with “organising illegal gatherings” in his house. He has since been transferred for further questioning to the interrogation office, which has extended his detention until 6 October 2013.

Waleed Abu Al-Khair is a human rights lawyer and founder of the Monitor of Human Rights in Saudi Arabia. He has been involved in cases against the government for jailing activists without charge and for banning women voting in municipal elections.

Yemen: Carry out a Thorough, Impartial and Immediate Investigation into the Attack on Radhwan Al-Haimi

On 2 October 2013, human rights defender Mr Radhwan Al-Haimi was attacked in Sanaa by individuals who told him they were Yemeni National Security officers.

(SANAA) - Radhwan Al-Haimi is Director of Nidal Al Taghyeer (Struggle of Change), an organisation working to protect human rights and freedoms, and a member of the Yemen Organisation for Defending Rights and Democratic Freedoms.

Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com asked the Yemen's president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi to carry out a thorough, impartial and immediate investigation into the attack on human rights defender Radhwan Al Haimi.