CAIRO Twenty-one killed as car bomb hits church in Egypt

The Interior Ministry earlier said 24 people were also wounded in the bombing, which prompted hundreds of Christians to take to the streets in protest. Some Christians and Muslims pelted each other with rocks, a witness said. Cars were torched.

Christians in Muslim-majority Egypt make up about 10 per cent of the nation’s 79 million people.

Egypt, due to hold a presidential election in September, has stepped up security around churches, restricting cars from parking directly outside them, after an al Qaeda-linked group in Iraq issued a threat against the church in Egypt in November.

The al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq, which claimed an attack on a church in Baghdad in November, threatened the Egyptian church over its treatment of women the group said the church was holding after they had converted to Islam.

“This is a scene from Baghdad,” a witness told Reuters by telephone.

Police used teargas to disperse the crowd on the streets. Ambulances were also at the scene where medical personnel gathered body parts that were scattered over the area.

“We sacrifice our souls and blood for the cross,” shouted protesting Christians near the Coptic Orthodox church where the blast struck, a witness said.

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A statement from the Interior Ministry said the blast occurred just after midnight in front of the church after a service to mark the New Year. It said the blast damaged a mosque near the church and eight Muslims were among the 24 wounded.

Security and medical sources said 21 people were killed.

The ministry said an investigation had begun.

“The preliminary investigation indicates that a car was the reason behind the explosion. It was parked in front of the church and had been assumed to belong to one of the people who often come to the church,” said the ministry statement, which was read to Reuters by a ministry official.

Kameel Sadeeq, from the Coptic council in Alexandria, told Reuters: “People went in to church to pray to God but ended up as scattered limbs. This massacre has al Qaeda written all over, the same pattern Qaeda has adopted in other countries.”

In November, hundreds of Christians clashed with riot police, as well as some Muslims who joined in, during a protest over a decision to halt construction of a church. Officials said the church did not have a licence to be built.

Two Christians died as a result of those clashes and dozens were hurt, medical sources said. More than 150 were detained.

Analysts say the state must address grievances such as those over laws making it easier to build a mosque than a church if it wants to stem such sectarian violence.

Officials are swift to play down sectarian differences and are particularly sensitive to emphasise national harmony after a parliamentary election in November that opposition groups said was rigged and before the presidential poll.

President Hosni Mubarak, 82 and in power since 1981, is expected to run again, if he is able. Gallbladder surgery last March rekindle questions about his health, although he has returned to a full schedule.

BAGHDAD Iraq gun and bomb attacks kill four, wound 18

          Two people, including an Iraqi soldier, were killed and three others wounded by a car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol in Al-Qayyara, 50 kilometres south of the northern Iraq city of Mosul, Iraqi army First Lieutenant Khattab Mohammed said.

One policeman was killed and four others were wounded when gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Al-Filahat area, 10 kilometres (six miles) west of Fallujah, which is itself west of Baghdad, police Captain Omar al-Filahi said.
In Balad, 70 kilometres north of Baghdad, unknown assailants blew up the home of local prosecutor Hardan Khalifa, killing one woman and wounding eight others, including three women and a child, a hospital official said.

And in Baquba, 60 kilometres northeast of the capital, two improvised explosive devices wounded three people, including Mal Allah Abbas Ahmed, who heads the Sunni religious endowment for Diyala province, police and medical officials said.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who was approved by parliament for a second term along with a national unity cabinet on December 21 after more than nine months of political deadlock, has cited security as one of his priorities.

president barrack Obama has set his new year,s resolution high for 2011 repair the struggling us economy

In his weekly radio and internet address on Saturday, the vacationing president said recent data showed the economic recovery was gaining traction even as millions of Americans are still out of work.

Our most important task now is to keep that recovery going . Obama said .. As president, that,s my commitment to you: to do everything I can to make sure our economy is growing . creating jobs, and strengthening our middle class. that .s my resolution for the coming year:

Unemployment of nearly 10 per cent and dissatisfaction with Obama,s efforts to spur an economic recovery from th worst recession in decades helped fuel republican victories in congressional elections in november.

Republicans will control the house of representatives this year and democrats will have a smaller majority in th senate, a new political reality that will affect obama,s ability to push through his policy priorities.

The president, who forged a deal with Republicans to extend Bush-era tax cuts in the waning days of 2010, sought to strike a bipartisan note in his address.

“In a few days, a new Congress will form, with one house controlled by Democrats, and one house controlled by Republicans — who now have a shared responsibility to move this country forward,” he said.

“I’m willing to work with anyone of either party who’s got a good idea and the commitment to see it through.”

  

Wish Of Politics

Politics make a person as stronger as a fighter because there is noon of them country's run with out politics , politics have some rules through that its run very well , every country president wants there country get progress or become on the sky , so for that politic is must.

Definition OF Politics

Politics..

is the process and method of decision_making for groups fo human beings . Although it is generally applied governments.politics is also aboserved in all human group interactions including corporate,academic,and religious. Political science is the study of political behavior and examines the acquisition ad application of power , i.e. the ability to impose one,s will on anther.

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Religion and Politics and its relevance in America use

clarity of mind is difficult when oppressed from anger .
 faith is something that needs to be tangible in the heart to belive without hesitatation of consciousness,forgiveness is a path for tow . in our anger we shall not act..but prepare a table of food so each may go to their master.
God blesses obedience .. And they rose up0in the twilight. and began a new day .As a thorn in the side they began to take banks to small claims court for fees on their accounts.casting out disease with herbs. should the wickedness of material wealth be deemed clever calculation?Dispersement of wealth according to need shall be  logic,homeless are no lepers but victims of circumstances created by the government,they should be a new foundation in this economy of change according to ethics.Re creating non Profit organizations for distributon is necessary due to the chaos in the catholic churches financial structure and should be a genuine goal.

Religion and Politics

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