91.   Political rivals denounced the plan, and commentators warned it could backfire by uniting religious parties and the opposition.

92.   A right-wing religious party buried its dead a day after an anti-government protest turned violent and killed four people, including one police officer.

93.   A seventh, religious party will support the government from the outside.

94.   A secular political party is providing a formidable challenge to the powerful Orthodox Jewish religious parties in upcoming parliamentary elections.

95.   A seventh, religious party will support the government but not participate in the Cabinet.

96.   After religious parties threatened to topple his government unless he passed the conversion bill, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week pledged to back it if compromise attempts failed.

97.   After years of tension, normalcy has returned to Punjab with an alliance as a Sikh religious party and Hindu nationalists formed a government in the state in December.

98.   All four religious parties are in the new government coalition.

99.   Ahmad, leader of the influential Jamaat-e-Islami religious party, told followers he would keep working for the supremacy of Islam in Pakistan.

100.   Although mainstream political parties appear set to endorse the treaty, the government is wary of opposition from small right-wing religious parties.