In Malaysia, Reuters reports that a fifth Christian church, All Saints Anglican church in Taiping, was attacked and outside walls blackened, and reports of a failed attempt to use a gasoline bomb on a Catholic convent.   R.E.A.L. has posted on the initial attacks on January 8 and the follow-up attack on January 9.

— Reuters reports: “Would-be arsonists in mostly Muslim Malaysia struck at a convent school and a fifth church on Sunday while church leaders called for calm in a row over Christians’ use of the word “Allah” to refer to God.”
— “Police in the sleepy city of Taiping, around 300 km (185 miles) from the capital Kuala Lumpur, said a petrol bomb was thrown at the guard house of a Catholic convent school but failed to go off.”
— “They also said they had found several broken bottles including paint thinners outside one of the country’s oldest Anglican churches, All Saints, Taiping, and said one of the building’s walls had been blackened.”
— “On Sunday, Malaysians packed churches to listen to sermons of ‘reaching out in friendship to all, including Muslims’ and ‘keeping the peace in multi-religious Malaysia’ but many felt their religious rights were being trampled.”
— “Christians account for 9.1 percent of the 28 million population.”
— “Malaysia is mainly Muslim and Malay but there are sizable ethnic Chinese and Indian communities who mainly practice Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism.”

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A Kuala Lumpur police officer inspects the damage to the Metro Tabernacle Church which was destroyed by a fire bomb in the Kuala Lumpur suburb of Desa Melawati -- January 8, 2010 (Photo AP)