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Events relating to religion
Violent protests against the film Innocence of Muslims break out in Egypt and soon spread to other Muslim countries
US embassies in Yemen and Egypt are attacked, as the protests against Innocence of Muslims spread
Radical Islamists take more than 800 people hostage at the Amenas Gas Project in Algeria
French troops arrive in Mali, at the government's request, to help in evicting radical Islamist groups from the north of the country
About forty foreign hostages and twenty-nine militants die when Algerian forces raid the Amenas gas site
Violent protests erupt in Egypt against President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood
Pope Benedict XVI resigns, the first pope to do so for 600 years
The Argentinian archbishop Jorge Bergoglio is elected pope and takes the name Francis in honour of St Francis of Assisi
