21.   A bid to drive the scourge of polio out of Nigeria once and for all has come under threat from the pulpit, where Islamic preachers are opposing vaccination.

22.   The shop of an Islamic preacher in the southern Lebanese Palestinian refugee camp of Ain Helweh was blown up at dawn Wednesday, an AFP correspondent reported.

23.   Women would make good Islamic preachers, just like they make good political and religious leaders outside the Islamic world, a Moslem cleric said Friday.

24.   The Algerian embassy here on Saturday denied having called for the extradition of an Algerian Islamic fundamentalist preacher arrested last month suspected of armed attacks in Yemen.