1.   Anti-Christian violence by Hindu extremists has increased dramatically over the past two years, creating tension between the Vatican and Indian authorities.

2.   Israel has its own brand of religious fanatics who shout for the death of Arabs no less fiercely than the Hindu extremists call for the death of Muslims.

3.   Other scientists were harassed by Hindu nationalist extremists as they gathered for a protest meeting in Bangalore last week.

4.   Police guarded Hindu temples and neighborhoods in this majority Muslim nation Friday to prevent reprisals for the deaths of Muslims at the hands of Hindu extremists in rival India.

5.   Pakistan and other critics have said the BJP embraces Hindu extremists with anti-Muslim bias.

6.   Politics overshadowed sport after the weeks of tension, violence and threats by Hindu extremists that preceded the arrival of the Pakistani team.

7.   Police said Monday that they had arrested nine Hindu extremists for an attack on a Catholic church in southern India.

8.   A Hindu extremist who recently became the de facto leader of Maharahstra state has accused Muslim migrants from Bangladesh of threatening to assassinate him.

9.   A videocassette, showing a mosque being razed by Hindu extremists in India, made the rounds.

10.   Fifty-eight people were killed in the train fire in the town of Godhra, provoking retaliatory attacks by Hindu extremists.