| November 18, 2008 | -
Focus on the Family announced that it would fire 149 people.
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UPI
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| October 18, 2006 | - An exhibit at the Oslo Natural History Museum displayed homosexual behavior among giraffes, penguins, parrots, beetles, and whales. Radical Christian critics said organizers of the exhibition should “burn in hell.”
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Reuters via ABC News
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| September 16, 2006 | -
Pope Benedict XVI apologized for the reactions to a speech that quoted Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologus's description of Islam as “evil and inhuman.”
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The Telegraph
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| August 26, 2006 | - Katherine Harris, a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Florida, told a Baptist newspaper that “if you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.”
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Washington Post
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| August 23, 2006 | - A new survey concluded that half of all evangelical Christian men are addicted to pornography.
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ChristiaNet
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| July 5, 2006 | - A megachurch called the World Overcomers congregation in Memphis, Tennessee, unveiled a 72-foot-tall replica of the Statue of Liberty (with the Ten Commandments under one arm, a tear on her cheek, and “Jehovah” inscribed on her crown) holding a cross of gold.
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New York Times
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| April 1, 2006 | - In Valletta, Malta, a man described as a "dark-skinned foreigner" walked into the Church of Our Lady of Jesus during mass and destroyed a 200-year-old mother-of-pearl crucifix. "Christians," said the man, "do not live up to what they preach."
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The Times of Malta
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| March 26, 2006 | - In San Francisco over 25,000 teenagers gathered at AT&T Park for an evangelical Christian rally. "The devil's a pimp," said one 18-year-old attendee. "Don't be his ho."
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SFGate.com
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| February 9, 2006 | - The U.S. Air Force, under pressure from evangelical Christians, changed its religious tolerance guidelines to allow for religious intolerance.
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AP via Forbes
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| January 5, 2006 | - Three Christian ministers claimed that they had sneaked into a Senate hearing room to anoint with oil the chairs used during Samuel Alito's Supreme Court confirmation.
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Salon.com
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| September 2, 2005 | - “New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence,” said the pastor of the New Covenant Fellowship of New Orleans, “and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion—it's free of all of those things now.”
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Agape Press
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| August 31, 2005 | - Some Christian extremists declared that the hurricane was punishment by God.
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World Net Daily
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| July 4, 2005 | - The United Church of Christ endorsed same-sex marriage.
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The Guardian
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| June 21, 2005 | - Judges in North Carolina were preparing to deliberate over whether the Koran can be used instead of the Bible to administer oaths.
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JournalNow
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| May 4, 2005 | - A papyrologist at Oxford University announced that new techniques in spectral imaging, which make it possible to decipher previously illegible ink on papyrus fragments, have yielded parts of a lost tragedy by Sophocles, a novel by Lucian, and an epic poem by Archilochos; researchers also applied the technique to third- and fourth-century manuscripts of the Revelation of Saint John and discovered that the number of the beast, contrary to popular belief, is 616, the area code of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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National Post
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| April 29, 2005 | -
Kenya's parliament passed a motion calling for the castration of rapists. “The Bible,” announced the Kenyan health minister, “says that if any part of the body causes you to sin, it should be removed.”
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BBC News
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| April 25, 2005 | -
Senator
Bill Frist of Tennessee asked Christian conservatives to help him end filibusters.
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New York Times
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| April 14, 2005 | - A Christian radio talk-show host was fired for questioning whether the dead pope would go to heaven.
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Local6.com
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| April 13, 2005 | - In the United States, Eric Rudolph, a Christian
terrorist, pleaded guilty to several bombings, including those at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, an abortion-clinic bombing in 1998, and an attack on a gay nightclub in 1997.
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BBC News
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| April 8, 2005 | -
Republicans held a conference to discuss ways to reform the federal judiciary, which they say has “run amok.” Senator Tom Coburn's chief of staff said that “mass impeachment” of judges might be necessary, and Tom DeLay, who is under investigation for illegal fundraising, gave a pre-recorded speech entitled “Confronting the Judicial War on Faith.”
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New York Times
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| March 28, 2005 | - A Russian court found a museum director and an artist guilty of creating blasphemous
art and fined them $3,600 each. The piece in question depicted Jesus on a Coca-Cola advertisement with the words “this is my blood.”
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The New York Times
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| March 22, 2005 | - Several IMAX theaters in the American South decided not to show a film about volcanoes because it might offend Christians.
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Greenville Online
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| March 16, 2005 | - Evangelical Christians from the United States and ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel were working together to stop homosexuals from marching through Jerusalem.
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Haaretz
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| March 8, 2005 | - An Oregon high-school teacher was under investigation for licking the bleeding wounds of his students.
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The Register-Guard
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| March 3, 2005 | - Ninety Danish master bakers were working to improve the flavor of communion wafers.
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The Copenhagen Post
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| January 21, 2005 | -
Christian groups warned that SpongeBob SquarePants was an insidious weapon being used to promote acceptance of homosexuality in a music video made for elementary schools. The video teaches children cooperation and tolerance and also features Barney, Winnie the Pooh, and Bob the Builder.
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CNN
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| January 11, 2005 | - A Florida
minister died at the pulpit. His last words were, “And when I go to heaven. . .”
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AP
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| December 25, 2004 | -
Eastern Rite, Roman, and Protestant Christian churches celebrated Christmas.
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Wikipedia
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| November 11, 2004 | -
Jerry Falwell announced the Faith and Values Coalition, a revival of the failed Moral Majority. The new group will fight against abortion, homosexual rights, and Democrats.
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ABC News
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| November 8, 2004 | - When asked to discuss Bush's obligations to evangelical Christians, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said, “This President is someone who is committed to getting things done.”
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White House
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| October 30, 2004 | - Mobs of machete-wielding Christians and Muslims were slaughtering one another in Liberia.
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Associated Press
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| October 28, 2004 | -
Fistfights broke out among Christians from different sects at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, which is said to be the site of Golgotha, where Jesus was crucified, and the site of his tomb. "There was a lot of hitting going on," said a witness. "Police were hit, monks were hit, there were people with bloodied faces."
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Guardian
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| October 7, 2004 | -
Cheney
claimed that he had never before met Senator Edwards; newspapers then published a photograph of the two men smiling and speaking together at a prayer breakfast.
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New York Times
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| September 23, 2004 | -
Jimmy Swaggart said that he would kill any gay man who "looks at me like that."
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The Advocate
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| September 18, 2004 | - Republicans in West Virginia told voters that Democrats will ban the Bible if John Kerry wins the presidency in November.
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Associated Press
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| April 16, 2004 | - A Pentecostal minister in Virginia was killed by a rattlesnake he was handling on Easter as a test of faith.
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New York Times
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| April 9, 2004 | - A Christian was crucified (for the 17th time) in the Philippines.
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Reuters
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| March 21, 2004 | - The Methodist Church put a minister on trial for openly carrying on a lesbian relationship; a jury found her not guilty of violating the church's teachings, because the teachings are vague.
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New York Times
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| February 9, 2004 | - An American Airlines pilot on a flight from Los Angeles to New York asked Christians to raise their hands and told non-Christians that they were crazy.
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BBC
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| December 17, 2003 | -
Saudi Arabia banned the importation of stuffed animals, female dolls, crucifixes, and statues of the Buddha.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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| December 24, 2002 | -
The Department of Justice added Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Armenia to the list of countries whose adult male citizens residing in the U.S. must register with federal authorities but later dropped Armenia after it was pointed out that most Armenians are Christian.
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| December 17, 2002 | -
American non-Christians told pollsters that evangelical Christians are better than prostitutes but worse than lawyers or lesbians.
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| November 26, 2002 | -
More than 200 people were killed in rioting by Nigerian Muslims opposed to the Miss World pageant after a newspaper suggested that the Prophet Muhammad would have married one of the contestants if he were alive today.
Churches in Kaduna were burned and armed youths attacked people suspected of being Christian; the local governor threatened to shoot rioters on sight.
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| October 15, 2002 | -
“The death of that man is a religious duty,” he said, “but his case should not be tied to the Christian community.” Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah disagreed and said that Muslims should not use physical violence against Falwell because Islam is “a religion of mercy and love.”
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| October 15, 2002 | -
A Chinese appeals court overturned the death sentences of three Christian leaders; they were promptly resentenced to life in prison.
Four other Christians were acquitted and then rearrested and sent without trial to a “reeducation through labor” camp.
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| September 24, 2002 | -
Christians at New Life Ministries in Loudon, Tennessee, tried to resurrect a 15-year-old girl who died of untreated bone cancer.
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| July 16, 2002 | -
The schoolgirl from California whose atheist father successfully challenged the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance is a Christian and has no qualms about reciting the pledge, her mother told the press.
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| April 30, 2002 | -
The Pope apologized to victims of pedophile priests and said there was no place in the Church for priests who abuse children, but he also noted that the power of Christian conversion must not be underestimated. American cardinals indicated that they definitely wanted to have a way to get rid of “notorious” pedophiles but that pedophiles who were not “notorious” might be dealt with in some other way. Cardinal Francis George of Chicago said he thought “zero-tolerance” policies were potentially unjust and that bishops should have “a little more wiggle room.”
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| April 30, 2002 | -
Muslim prosecutors in Nigeria said they were seeking the death penalty for two men accused of converting to Christianity; the men denied converting and said they had always been Christians.
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| January 29, 2002 | -
Stop me if you can.” Elie Hobeika, a former Lebanese Christian militia leader, whose men in 1982 massacred hundreds of Palestinian refugees at the Sabra and Shatila camps, was assassinated with a car bomb a few days after he confirmed that he would testify against Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon in a war-crimes trial in Belgium.
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| December 11, 2001 | -
Pat Robertson resigned from the Christian Coalition.
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| September 25, 2001 | -
President George W. Bush declared that all the nations of the earth must choose sides in the coming crusade against terrorism, and he promised to attack Afghanistan if its leaders refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, the famous terrorist, whom the President has described as “Wanted: Dead or Alive.” Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld told reporters that the preliminary brand-name of the American military campaign, Operation Infinite Justice, would probably be changed, because it was offensive to Muslims, for whom infinite justice is a divine attribute. Some Christians also found the name offensive.
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| August 28, 2001 | - A North Carolina state representative apologized after forwarding fellow legislators an email message that declared: “Two things made this country great: White men and Christianity.” President Bush was inducted into the Little League Hall of Excellence.
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| July 10, 2001 | - In Nigeria, Muslim Hausas and Christian Jarawas continued to kill one another, as did members of the Azara and Tiv peoples.
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| June 12, 2001 | -
President Bush went off to Europe, where he is viewed, according to a senior administration official, as a “shallow, arrogant, gun-loving, abortion-hating, Christian fundamentalist Texan buffoon.”
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| May 8, 2001 | - Colorado's governor signed a law banning bullying in the schools; a similar measure was being blocked in the Washington State legislature because conservative Christians were concerned that the anti-bullying law would prevent children from persecuting homosexuals.
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| May 8, 2001 | - Ralph Reed, formerly of the Christian Coalition, was selected as chairman of the Georgia Republican Party.
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| May 8, 2001 | - The Pope visited Greece, the first such visit in about 1,300 years; Orthodox Christians protested, apparently still upset about the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, and held up insulting placards calling the Holy Father, among other things, a “two-horned monster of Rome.” President Macapagal Arroyo declared that a “state of rebellion” existed in Manila as thousands of supporters of former president Joseph Estrada (who was arrested recently on corruption charges, fingerprinted, and photographed like a common thief) stormed the presidential palace.
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| April 17, 2001 | -
Sudan flogged 53 Christians, including four women and two children, for rioting.
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| January 23, 2001 | - Former senator John Ashcroft, who was defeated by a dead man in the last election, promised in his confirmation hearings to enforce the law, even laws with which he—as a right-wing, Christian, pro-life nut—disagreed.
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| January 16, 2001 | - Liberal political groups were attempting to rally Senate
Democrats to oppose the nomination of John Ashcroft to be attorney general of the United States, though few seriously believed that members of the Democrat Party were brave or principled enough to do what it would take to defeat the right-wing Christian extremist.
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| January 16, 2001 | -
Afghanistan's chief mullah decreed that encouraging a Muslim to convert to Christianity was a capital crime; Mullah Muhammad Omar also let it be known that selling any kind of anti-Islamic literature would be punished by five years in prison.
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| December 26, 2000 | -
Jerusalem's
Christian churches endorsed Palestinian demands for sovereignty in East Jerusalem; they condemned Israeli violence against demonstrators and noted that an oppressed people living under a military occupation has the moral right to resist its overlords.
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| December 19, 2000 | - The number of executions carried out in the United States declined by 14 percent this year; half were held in Texas, which had its best year ever, killing more prisoners in one year than any other state in American history. The warden of the prison in Huntsville, Texas, who has presided over eighty-four executions, told a reporter: “Just from a Christian standpoint, you can't see one of these and not consider that maybe it's not right.”
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| December 12, 2000 | - Ivoirian Muslims and Christians were killing one another again in the aftermath of a disputed election.
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| November 21, 2000 | -
Geneticists found that Jews and Palestinians have a fairly recent common ancestry, which supports historical evidence that Palestinians are descended from Jews and Christians who converted after the Islamic conquest in the seventh century C.E.
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| October 17, 2000 | - Governor Jeb Bush of Florida restored Charles W. Colson's civil rights; Colson, who was convicted in the Watergate scandal, is a born-again Christian and the author of several apocalyptic Christian thrillers.
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| September 26, 2000 | - The Vatican announced that on October 1, the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China by Mao Tse-tung, the Pope will canonize 120 Chinese Catholics whom it considers martyrs; the Chinese foreign ministry said that this would “seriously hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.” Several Chinese Protestant leaders insisted that China's Christians faced little persecution.
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| September 19, 2000 | -
Christian Solidarity International, a Swiss aid group, bought 4,435 slaves in Sudan and set them free; so far the group has bought 38,000 slaves, causing some to wonder whether they were contributing to the market in human chattel.
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| September 12, 2000 | - A group of Jewish scholars and rabbis called on Jews to let go of their ancient fear of Christians.
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