More Churches Attacked in Malaysia

(10 Jan 10 - RV) Would-be arsonists in Muslim Malaysia struck at a convent school and a sixth church on Sunday while church and government leaders called for calm in a row over Christians' use of the word "Allah" to refer to God.

The attacks, in response a court ruling that allowed the Catholic newspaper Herald to use "Allah" in its Malay-language editions, had prompted Muslims to protest at mosques and sparked arson attacks on a string of churches that saw a Pentecostal church gutted.

The editor of Herald, Father Lawrence Andrew spoke to us about the attacks…