21.   Biharsharif has a history of religious violence.

22.   But religious violence has continued unabated in major Pakistani cities and towns.

23.   But in recent years, religious violence has increased in Islamic Pakistan, where Sunni Muslims comprise the majority.

24.   Campaigning Sunday in the northern state of Punjab, Sonia Gandhi compared her personal sorrows to the pain of Sikhs, who lost loved ones in religious violence.

25.   Cheering Muslim mobs on Friday burned a Roman Catholic church in a provincial capital in the latest outburst of religious violence in Indonesia.

26.   Critics accuse the German evangelist of exacerbating Muslim-Christian tensions in the West African nation, where religious violence flares intermittently, killing thousands.

27.   Earlier this month, he outlawed two Islamic guerrilla groups and three sectarian organizations in an attempt to curb the rampant religious violence in Pakistan.

28.   Earlier Thursday, authorities banned two Sipah-e-Sahaba leaders from entering the city in a bid to avert religious violence.

29.   Eight killed in religious violence.

30.   Every year hundreds of people, most of whom are minority Shiite Muslims, are killed in religious violence in Pakistan.