Three in court over firebombed church

Malaysian prosecutors charged three Muslim men today in the firebombing of a church – the first suspects in a string of assaults on places of worship amid a dispute over whether non-Muslims can refer to God as Allah.

Arson attacks, vandalism and other incidents at 11 churches, a Sikh temple, three mosques and two Muslim prayer halls in recent weeks were a blow to decades of multiracial harmony in the Muslim-majority country.