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News for: July 24, 2002
Ex-wife testifies in race trial
The Boston Herald
White supremacist Leo Felton's ex-wife watched the ex-con make counterfeit money, load her gun and buy farm store fertilizer allegedly destined for a bomb in a "racial holy war," she told a jury yesterday.
MASSACHUSETTS
Defendant in race war trial wants to testify
The Boston Herald
After seven days of dramatic government evidence portraying him as a violent racist willing to die in pursuit of "racial holy war," Leo V. Felton wants to testify today before a federal jury whose verdict could put him in prison for 40 years.
Defense rests after calling only three witnesses in conspiracy trial
The Associated Press
The defense has rested its case in the trial of two alleged white supremacists accused of plotting to bomb black or Jewish landscapes.
NEW YORK
Group Takes School to Court Over Quran Assignment
FOXNews.com
NEW YORK - A Christian group is going to federal court to force the University of North Carolina from requiring its incoming freshmen to read a book about the Quran.
UTAH
Green wife leaves; family in transition
The Deseret News
PROVO - The wives of polygamist Tom Green have stood together in the spotlight, weathering public scrutiny for their religious beliefs and a common love for their husband.
Monuments a Thou Shalt Not?
The Salt Lake Tribune
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that Ogden must either remove a Ten Commandments monument from city municipal building grounds or allow the Summum religion to erect its own monument to its religious beliefs.
Massacre Documents Displayed
The Salt lake Tribune
A store of handwritten and typed court documents detailing the trial and execution of Mormon pioneer John D. Lee for his role in the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre was briefly displayed by state archivists Tuesday.
CANADA
Montreal school board seeks to bar Sikh boy from high school
The Canadian Press
MONTREAL -- A school board has asked the Quebec Court of Appeal to prevent a Sikh boy from wearing his ceremonial dagger to a suburban high school. The Marguerite-Bourgeoys school board wants the appeals court to overturn a lower-court ruling that allowed Gurbaj Singh, 12, to wear his kirpan in class.
CHINA
China: Falun Gong a global threat
CNN.com
HONG KONG -- Beijing has taken its nationwide campaign to discredit the Falun Gong movement to an international stage, calling the spiritual group a threat to civilized society all over the world.
SCOTLAND
Legal move to cut 'chains' of divorcee Jews
The Herald
A legal anomaly which allows Jewish men to divorce their wives and then prevent them from remarrying under orthodox religious law is to be ended by the Scottish Executive.
SOUTH KOREA
S Korea probes human clone claim
BBC News
The South Korean Government has started an investigation into a company which claims to have made a woman pregnant with a cloned human embryo...BioFusion is an affiliate of the US-based company Clonaid, founded by a religious cult, the Raelian Movement, which believes life on Earth was created scientifically by extra-terrestrials.
Also:
"You've got to bear in mind the credibility of the organisation that is making these claims", The BBC's Pallab Ghosh
Related story:
Human cloning loophole closed, BBC News
ZIMBABWE
Apostolic Sect Members Take Children for Immunisation
The Herald
HARARE -- Members of the Jahane Marange Apostolic Church in Lower Guruve, known for resisting medical treatment, responded positively to the just-ended national measles immunisation and Vitamin A supplementation programme.
