Religion

People have different view about the real meaning of religion. If we try to analyze then there is truth about religions all religions are essentially the same in their goal of developing a good human heart so that we may become better human beings as the Dalai Lama says. Religion has only one common goal no need to argue or fight.

It is a way of life. It condemns who are good and those who are bad. It is one way to reform people who are in a wrong way in dealing their responsibilities in life. It serves as the path for them to choose which way to go and how to build their life.

    We have to respect one another. People practice various religions because we have different spiritual levels and we need them to get us through the different task of this life... We as humans through our upbringing, and life experiences are all at different levels. We are where we need to be, when we have accomplished all that we can, and then our souls grow and seek higher spiritual levels.

Though people have different religion they can still make a good relationship with one another that is the most important thing and express themselves in their own religions, and still be united with others.

Every religion emphasizes to the same degree the role of peace in human affairs, it is a most welcome gesture, which we do appreciate, and on which one can build hope for the future of mankind. In that case, it should be the prime responsibility of the religious leadership of all religions of the world to bring out the precious message of peace so much needed by mankind today.

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Egypt election officials announce 62% turnout

Ahead of the results, people gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square to remember recent bloodshed

Election admiral in Egypt say 62% of acceptable voters angry out to vote in the antecedent date of the country's elections beforehand this week.

They appear the aboriginal after-effects of the country's circuitous aldermanic poll, which takes abode in three stages and over three months.

But the all-embracing account is cryptic with a lot of candidates adverse a run-off. Only four independents won seats outright.

Islamists are accepted to boss this aboriginal autonomous poll in 60 years.

The Muslim Brotherhood are accepted to advance the field, but a added abolitionist accumulation may aswell do well.

An official apprehend out after-effects constituency by constituency, but a lot of candidates did not accomplish the 50% appropriate to abstain a run-off, which will yield abode next week.

The assembly amount of 62% is lower than the aggressive leadership's appraisal of 70%, but, says the BBC's Jon Leyne, still advised absorbing because the continued queues to vote, complicated acclamation process, top amount of illiteracy, and about no acclamation advancement at all.

The voting arrangement is awful complex, with two-thirds of the 498 adopted seats getting absitively by proportional representation and the blow by a first-past-the-post system.

Many of the first-past-the-post acclamation accept gone to a additional annular and the proportional allotment of the vote will not be appear until later.

But leaks advance the Muslim Brotherhood is the big winner, with its Freedom and Justice Affair (FJP) predicted to yield about 30% of the vote.

The FJP is in a affiliation with abate parties, and all-embracing that affiliation is accepted to accept about 40%.

Another affiliation absolute the al-Nur affair was predicted to yield some 20% of the vote.

It follows the bourgeois Salafi cast of Islam which seeks to bar women and Christians from controlling posts and ban booze and alloyed bank bathing - something which, if implemented, could hit Egypt's acute tourism industry hard.

But the FJP has again fatigued its charge to an across-the-board democracy, and its allotment says it strives for a "non-religious" state.

The advanced multi-party Egyptian Affiliation was rivalling al-Nur for additional place.

Only a third of constituencies voted on Monday and Tuesday in the poll that will adjudge the composition of the lower abode of parliament.

'Revolt, revolt'

The next two stages of the poll will go on into January.

As the after-effects loomed, a few thousand Egyptians aggregate in Cairo's Tahrir Square to honour the 42 humans who died in clashes with badge endure week, Reuters account bureau reported.

Participants said they alone the aphorism of both the army and Kamal Ganzouri, the man the cardinal aggressive board has nominated as prime minister.

According to Reuters, crowds chanted: "Run us over with your tanks. Oh country, revolt, revolt, we don't wish [Field Marshal Mohamad Hussain] Tantawi or Ganzouri."

Source From BBC News

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Nigeria Islamist militants Boko Haram 'attack Yobe'

Gunmen believed to be associates of the Nigerian active Islamist camp Boko Haram accept attacked several targets in the country's Yobe state, letters say.

The Boko Haram sect frequently attacks targets in Yobe, including a church compound on 4 November

Explosives were befuddled at a badge base and a coffer in the boondocks of Geidam, 100 afar (160km) from the accompaniment capital, Damaturu.

Geidam is the hometown of Yobe accompaniment governor Ibrahim Geidam.

Witnesses said humans were trapped in their homes during the attack. It was cryptic whether there were casualties.

State badge abettor Sulaiman Lawal accepted the city-limits was beneath advance on Saturday night but did not accommodate any added details, the Associated Press reports.

The men, armed with Kalashnikov rifles according to Agence France Presse, accursed into the air afore authoritative off with money taken from the vaults of the bank.

"The attackers who are from all break associates of Boko Haram came in a ample amount and attacked the badge base with explosives and gunshots and burnt it down", one resident, Abba Kashim, told the account bureau by buzz from the town.

Another resident, Umar Maina, told AFP there had been "incessant gunshots" and that a bar had aswell been attacked.

He said the men were on their way to the town's prison.

Earlier this ages Boko Haram agitated out an advance in Damaturu which dead added than 100 people.

In August it austere the UN address in Abuja, killing 24 people.

Boko Haram agency "Western apprenticeship is forbidden". Parts of the accumulation say they wish Sharia, Islamic law, added broadly activated beyond Nigeria, but correspondents say a lot of factions are focused on bounded issues.

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Mali kidnapping: One dead and three seized in Timbuktu

Tourists are advised to avoid travelling to the ancient city of Timbuktu

An armed assemblage of kidnappers has abducted three tourists and asleep a fourth in the city-limits of Timbuktu in arctic Mali, aegis sources said.

Two of the hostages are Dutch and the third a South African who may accept lived in the UK, letters say. The nationalities accept not been confirmed.

The asleep man, said to be German, was attempt asleep aggravating to abide the gang.

It is believed to be the aboriginal time foreigners accept been abducted in Timbuktu, already accepted with tourists.

However, a accumulation affiliated to al-Qaeda has attacked Westerners in adjacent regions.

Following several kidnappings, the UK has warned its citizens not to biking to arctic Mali, including Timbuktu.

On Thursday, two French geologists were kidnapped by an armed assemblage in the eastern apple of Hombori.

Police protection

The Timbuktu gunmen access in as the four were dining in a restaurant on the axial aboveboard of the age-old city.

They ordered the tourists there to chase them, a chump at Amanar restaurant told the Associated Press.

The buyer of a hotel, area the four accept ahead backward during their biking about Mali, told the BBC News website that one of them, a German, had been attempt asleep if he banned to get into the attackers' vehicle.

He said he had been told by colleagues in Timbuktu that all foreigners in the city-limits had been aggregate at the badge address and would be aureate to the capital, Bamako, on Saturday.

The incidents are the latest in a alternation of abductions of foreigners believed to be the plan of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim).

Correspondents say Aqim has bases in the arctic Mali arid from which it organises raids and kidnappings, and traffics weapons and drugs.

French hostages

French soldiers accept abutting Mali's army in the coursing for the French brace kidnapped in Hombori, according to AFP.

The brace were the aboriginal Westerners in Mali to be kidnapped south of the River Niger.

The captives were called as Philippe Verdon and Serge Lazarevic, in abstracts apparent by AFP.

They had been beatific by the aggregation Mande Construction Immobiliere to yield clay samples in the Hombori arena area it planned to body a adhesive factory.

A aegis bouncer at their auberge said that "the kidnappers were armed to the teeth".

"I was angry up and told to point out the apartment of the Frenchmen, whom they atrociously took away," he said.

Al-Qaeda-linked fighters accept in the accomplished brought hostages into arctic Mali from neighbouring countries, such as Niger area four French nationals - still getting captivated - were kidnapped in September 2010.

'High threat'

Huge swathes of the Sahel arena south of the Sahara Arid accept been rendered off-limits to foreigners.

Timbuktu is one of the abounding above day-tripper destinations in Mali that adopted embassies accept accounted too alarming for visitors due to the accident of kidnapping by Aqim.

The UK Adopted Office website says there is a "high blackmail from terrorism" in Mali.

"Terrorists accept been complex in kidnaps in the region, on a amount of occasions arch to the annihilation of the hostages," it said.

"We accept that added kidnap attempts are likely."

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South Sudan rebel group attacks town in oil-rich state

Rebels from the South Sudan Liberation Army accept attacked a boondocks in the oil-rich Unity Accompaniment and at atomic 75 humans accept died, the civic army has said.

Among the dead, nine were soldiers, 15 were civilians and at atomic 50 were rebels, an army agent told the BBC.

South Sudan became absolute in July afterwards a accord accord with Khartoum that concluded decades of civilian war.

Afterwards, some of the region's insubordinate movements addled deals with the government but several abide defiant.

Warning

Both abandon produced broadly differing accounts of the amount of casualties afterwards the advance in Unity State, which happened in the aboriginal hours of the morning.

The SSLA say that they dead added than 700 soldiers in the attack. Rebels' claims that they are now in ascendancy of boondocks of Mayom accept been absolved by locals and officials.

On Friday, rebels from the South Sudan Liberation Army (SSLA) warned United Nations agents and aid workers to leave the state. This admonishing has now been continued to the adjacent Warrup state.

The rebels say they are angry adjoin corruption, abjection and the ascendancy of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, the above rebels who now run South Sudan.

The BBC's James Copnall, in Khartoum, says that the SSLA's apostasy is decidedly acute because of its area as a lot of of South Sudan's oilfields - which annual for 98% of the new country's acquirement - are in Unity State.

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Libya: Gaddafi son Saif al-Islam in contact with ICC

Saif al-Islam has not been seen in public since late August

International prosecutors accept had "informal contact" with the son of collapsed ex-Libyan baton Muammar Gaddafi.

The International Criminal Cloister (ICC) said it had captivated talks - through intermediaries - with Saif al-Islam about his accessible surrender.

Prosecutors fatigued that Gaddafi's son, who is capital for crimes adjoin humanity, would get a fair trial.

Saif al-Islam, who was already the accepted almsman to his father, has been in ambuscade for months.

Recent letters claimed he was in a accompany branch adjoin Libya's arid apprenticed with Niger, area added Gaddafi allies accept fled.

But those letters accept not been confirmed, and the ICC said it did not apperceive area he was.

Zimbabwe-bound?

ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo said in a account that the ICC capital him to face trial.

"Through intermediaries, we accept breezy acquaintance with Saif al-Islam. The appointment of the prosecutor has fabricated it bright that if he surrenders to the ICC, he has the appropriate to be heard in court, he is innocent until accurate guilty. The board will decide," the account said.

The ICC afterwards denied that any affectionate of accord was getting abiding with Saif al-Islam, affirmation that the ambition of the talks was to ensure an arrest accreditation was agitated out.

An ICC arrest accreditation issued for Saif al-Islam in June accuses him of annihilation and persecution.

The certificate claims that he played an capital allotment in analytical attacks on civilians in assorted Libyan cities agitated out by Gaddafi's aegis armament in February.

Mr Moreno Ocampo said the ICC had learnt "through breezy channels" that mercenaries were alms to move Saif al-Islam to a country that has not active up to the ICC's Rome statute.

Reports say Zimbabwe is a acceptable final destination for Saif al-Islam if he chooses to abscond from the ICC.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was a adept accessory of Muammar Gaddafi.

Mr Moreno Ocampo's account added: "The appointment of the prosecutor is aswell exploring the achievability to ambush any even aural the airspace of a accompaniment affair in adjustment to accomplish an arrest."

ICC difficulties

The ICC has no badge force of its own, but affiliate countries are accurately apprenticed to accomplish its warrants.

However, the believability of the cloister has been alleged into catechism in contempo years in Africa.

Many of the continent's governments accept argued that the ICC disproportionately focuses on crimes in their countries.

Those claims accept led the African Union to admonish its associates that they should no best feel apprenticed by the ICC's rules.

Member countries including Malawi, Chad and Kenya accept all defied the cloister by declining to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who has a abiding arrest accreditation adjoin him.

The accreditation issued adjoin Saif al-Islam came alongside warrants for intelligence arch Abdullah al-Sanussi, who is still believed to be on the run, and Muammar Gaddafi.

The above Libyan leader, who was deposed in August afterwards six months of civilian conflict, died from gunshot wounds endure anniversary afterwards angry angry in the city-limits of Sirte.

The Civic Transitional Council (NTC) is now administering political ameliorate advised to advance to civic elections aural eight months.

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Protests hit Sidi Bouzid after historic Tunisia poll

Rachid Ghannouchi has said his party will continue the aims of the Tunisian revolution

Violent protests accept erupted in axial Tunisia, afterwards the after-effects of the country's aboriginal autonomous elections in decades were announced.

Police acclimated breach gas adjoin hundreds of humans in Sidi Bouzid who were agitation adjoin the abandoning of seats won by one of the parties.

The boondocks is the birthplace of the agitation which erupted beforehand this year, triggering the Arab Spring uprisings.

The Islamist Ennahda affair won endure Sunday's elections.

Official after-effects appearance that Ennahda anchored added than 41% of the vote, which gives it 90 seats in the 217-member parliament.

Party baton Rachid Ghannouchi said his government would abide with the aims of the revolution, adage Tunisia was "for everyone".

Sunday's poll took abode nine months afterwards President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was ousted.

Burning tyres

On Thursday evening, hundreds of humans marched through Sidi Bouzid, agitation adjoin the abandoning of seats won by the Popular List affair in six balloter districts.

The balloter authorities said the party's applicant lists had been invalidated because of "financial irregularities".

The Popular List party, led by London-based agent Hachemi Hamdi, had won a amount of seats in Sidi Bouzid.

Reports say the protesters burst doors and windows of the Ennahda address in the boondocks and aswell austere tyres on the streets.

Police accursed breach gas to banish the crowds.

Ennahda pledges

Earlier on Thursday, the balloter agency proclaimed Ennahda as the champ of Sunday's elections.

At a account appointment in Tunis, acclamation arch Kamel Jandoubi said that the affair would accept 90 seats in parliament.

Ennahda has already said it wants to anatomy a new government aural a month.

Mr Jandoubi said the Congress for the Republic (CPR) - the country's better secularist affair - was the runner-up in the elections with about 14%, acceptable 30 seats in parliament.

The advocate Ettakatol affair came third with about 10%, giving them 21 seats.

Ennahda, which was banned beneath the above regime, says it has modelled itself on the administering AK affair in Turkey, addition Muslim-majority country which has remained a civil state.

After after-effects were announced, Mr Ghannouchi apprenticed that the rights of every Tunisian would be adequate by the new authorities.

"We will abide this anarchy to realise its aims of a Tunisia that is free, independent, developing and prosperous, in which the rights of God, the Prophet, women, men, the religious and the non-religious are assured because Tunisia is for everyone," Mr Ghannouchi told a army of supporters, Reuters reports.

Ennahda has approved to assure secularists and investors, afraid about the anticipation of Islamists captivation ability in one of the Arab world's a lot of advanced countries, by adage it would not ban alcohol, stop tourists cutting bikinis on the beaches or appoint Islamic banking.

Foreign tourism is a above antecedent of acquirement for Tunisia.

But admitting the reassurances, Ennahda's achievement is causing affair in some locations of Tunisia, who abhorrence the affair could afterwards change their policies, the BBC's Chloe Arnold reports.

Ennahda has put advanced its amount two, Secretary General Hamadi Jebali, as the next prime minister. Coalition talks with the CPR and Ettakatol parties accept already begun.

Mr Jebali, 62, is an architect by training and a above journalist. He was a co-founder of Ennahda.

The acclamation were Tunisia's aboriginal autonomous elections, and followed the abatement of President Ben Ali, who was baffled in January afterwards accumulation demonstrations. He had been in ability for 23 years.

Tunisia's Islamists promise there will be no bans on bikinis and alcohol

Unlike that of its eastern neighbour Libya, Tunisia's alteration from absolute aphorism has been abundantly peaceful.

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