Thanks JP for the heads up.
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ON THE NET...
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm%3Fid%3D538732006&scoring=d
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/07/news/paris.php&scoring=d
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,190943,00.html
AP
Motorist Runs Down Student Protesters in Paris, 7 Injured
Friday, April 07, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "PARIS — A motorist drove through a crowd of students blocking the road in protest of the government's new youth jobs law Friday, injuring seven people. Furious demonstrators overturned the car and tried to pull out the driver before police intervened."
Thanks to Abu Afak for the ping to this thread.
Note: The following post is a quote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611198/posts
Ramallah: Islamic violence targets Christians
AsiaNews ^ | 4/7/06
Posted on 04/07/2006 3:12:00 PM PDT by abu afak
Fr Ibrahim, parish priest of Ramallah, told AsiaNews that classrooms have been burned, church window panes destroyed, bible study halls set on fire and Catholic youth are being threatened by Muslims. The cleric said suspicion is falling on “Palestinians against the Hamas government”.
Ramallah (AsiaNews) – Burned school rooms, church window panes destroyed, bible study halls set on fire and Catholic youth threatened by Muslims: thus runs a list of escalating violent attacks against Christians in Ramallah since Hamas won the election.
The parish priest, Fr Ibrahim Hijazin, 55 years, reported the violence to AsiaNews. Fr Ibrahim has been the parish priest in Ramallah for nine years and for 13 he has been running the Al Ahliyya school that educates poor Christian and Muslim children. The college was set up in 1856, in the time of the Ottoman Empire, and it had never been the target of violence before.
Once upon a time, Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian presidency, was considered to a Christian city with at least 40-50,000 Christians. Now at least 30,000 have emigrated to America and countries in the Gulf. Now, as a result of the emigration, out of an overall population of around 40,000 people, Christians number around 10,000, sub-divided into Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans, Melkites and Catholics, who are around 2,000..."
(Excerpt) Read more at asianews.it ...