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(BBC, February 12, 2008) Singapore - A leading retailer in Singapore has withdrawn a cosmetics range with a Jesus theme after complaints from local Roman Catholics, local media report.

(BBC, February 12, 2008) London, UK - Members of the Church of England's ruling synod have defeated an attempt by the Church to take control of vicarages.

(AP, February 13, 2008) Abilene, USA - The founder of the House of Yahweh religious sect remained jailed Wednesday on four counts of bigamy, officials said.

("ANTARA News", February 13, 2008) Jakarta, indonesia - The leader of a muslim sect denounced as heretical by Indonesian clerics could face up to five years' jail on charges of blasphemy and insulting an official religion, prosecutors said Wednesday.

By J.B. An Dang (AsiaNews, February 12, 2008) Hanoi, Vietnam - catholic Montagnards from Ia Grai, in Vietnam's central highlands, were unable to celebrate Mass on the first day of T?t or Lunar New Year because the local People's Committee explicitly forbade it.

("Compass Direct", February 12, 2008) Yana, Nigeria - A muslim man's frustrated desire to marry a young christian woman resulted in him accusing her of "blasphemy," triggering violence in this town in Bauchi state on February 2 that left one person dead, seven Christians hospitalized and destroyed five churches.

(BBC, February 13, 2008) Copenhagen, Denmark - Danish newspapers have reprinted one of several caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad which sparked violent protests across the muslim world two years ago.