“When graffiti artists painted over a huge mural of Northern Ireland’s soccer heroes with two armed men in balaclavas…police in east Belfast took notice.”

“An al Qaeda-affiliated group in Somalia, al Shabaab, has recruited more than 40 Muslim Americans to its battle in the war-ravaged country and at least 15 have been killed, a congressional report said…”

“Somalia’s al Shabaab rebels have banned English from schools in the southern port city of Kismayu they control and demanded teachers switch the curriculum to include Arabic and Islamic studies.”

Aggregated news related to religion in Japan.

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