11.   But they balked after a week of rioting increased sectarian tensions across Northern Ireland.

12.   Growing sectarian tensions between Christians and Muslims have recently replaced the traditional good neighborliness that once prevailed in Nazareth in northern Israel.

13.   In another sign of heightened sectarian tensions, attackers hurled a petrol bomb at a Roman Catholic primary school in west Belfast early Wednesday, police said.

14.   Sectarian tensions are running high in Belfast.

15.   Sectarian tensions have continued to simmer since Easter, when violence broke out between Christians and Muslims in the northern Israeli city.

16.   Sectarian tensions are high in Belfast, where rival Protestant and Catholic mobs have clashed on an almost nightly basis in parts of the city in recent weeks.

17.   Sectarian tensions have continued to simmer since they were touched off on Easter in the northern Israeli city when the streets erupted into violence between Christians and Muslims.

18.   That opportunity for peace instead fueled sectarian tensions, as extremists on both sides feared losing out in political negotiations that never really got off the ground.

19.   The home of a Protestant clergyman and a Catholic church office were damaged in the early hours of Thursday in continuing incidents of sectarian tensions, police said.

20.   The major moderate Catholic politician in the Northern Ireland government, Seamus Mallon, also blamed Sinn Fein and the IRA for rising sectarian tensions.