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NEW YORK - Demonstrators plan to pray on their knees and be arrested for civil disobedience to protest the acquittals of three police officers in the death of an unarmed man shot on his wedding day, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Saturday. The civil rights activist, who has promised to "close this city down" to protest last month's verdict, said protesters would stage a "pray-in" Wednesday at half a dozen places in the city, including the police headquarters. Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem a day after the officers were cleared in the November 2006 death of Sean Bell,...

WASHINGTON - Imams, ministers and a rabbi staged a "pray-in" demonstration Monday at Reagan Washington National Airport and demanded an apology from US Airways for barring six Muslims from a Minneapolis to Phoenix flight last week. The religious leaders called for an end to racial profiling, saying it was unacceptable in America. "These things are troubling to us," said Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation. "Driving while black, flying while Muslim, traveling with a Torah or getting with Jesus." Imam Omar Shahin, one of the six imams detained last Monday at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International...

Last Update: 10/01/2005 23:37 Thousands join anti-disengagement pray-in held in Jerusalem By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent ettlers and supporters of the settlement movement holding an Israeli flag during a demonstration in front of the Knesset in Jerusalem on Monday. (AP) Thousands of protestors, including numerous rabbis, turned out for an anti-disengagement protest held in Jerusalem on Monday. The protestors stood for two hours outside the city's government buildings, including the Knesset and the Prime Minister's Office, reciting Biblical verses and praying for "an end to the disengagement order and to the uprooting of settlements." Throngs of rabbis, including former chief...