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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Two more Malaysian churches attacked in "Allah" row AFP - 1 hour 48 minutes ago Send IM Story Print Two more Malaysian churches attacked in "Allah" row KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - – Two more Malaysian churches were targeted by arsonists Sunday, police and church officials said, as a row escalated over the use of the word "Allah" by non-Muslims. The latest attacks in Taiping, in the northern Perak state, brought the total number to six since Friday but there were no reports of injuries, according to state police chief Zulkifli Abdullah. He said a Molotov cocktail was thrown at All Saints Church early in the morning before worshippers attended their Sunday service while church officials found a bottle of kerosene in another church. "There were black marks on the wall (at All Saints). We believed there was a small fire earlier but there was no damage as the wall was intact," Zulkifli told AFP. He said a bottle of kerosene was thrown into St Louis Catholic Church but added that the building wasn't damaged. Four churches in the Kuala Lumpur area have been hit by firebombs since Friday, leaving one badly damaged with its ground floor gutted, and prompting Prime Minister Najib Razak to promise to crack down on race crime. Hermen Shastri, secretary-general of the Council of Churches, said officials had stepped up security in the wake of the fresh attacks. "The attacks show they are more just a prank as it does not appear to be a major (attack), someone is trying to send a signal that they are unhappy," he told AFP. The row is among a string of religious disputes that have erupted in recent years, straining relations between Malays and ethnic Chinese and Indians who fear the country is being "Islamised". About 10 percent of Malaysians are Christians, including some 850,000 Catholics. Malaysian Christians turned up to Sunday services in their thousands, presenting a united front of defiance in the face of a series of church firebombings that has heightened ethnic tensions. Related article: Malaysian Christians undeterred by attacks "I think that people's faith is greater than what's happening around so they continue to go to church and pray for themselves as well as for the nation," Hermen Shastri, the Council of Churches secretary-general told AFP. "But of course we are not blind to potential threat so churches have taken measures to increase security around their compounds and trusting the police and other enforcement agencies to keep a lookout for any suspicious individuals." About 1,000 worshippers at the Catholic Church of Assumption in Kuala Lumpur, one of the four targeted, were briefed by parish priest Phillips Muthu on the incident and told to be patient. "I told them we don't want to blame any people, any quarter, any religion. We are peaceful and we are here to offer our prayer for the nation," he told reporters at the church, where the fire damaged part of the grounds. "Of course we are afraid after the incident but life has to go on." Joseph Kurup, deputy natural resources and environment minister, who was also at the church with his family, urged the Catholic community to remain calm and let the authorities investigate. "It's quite shocking for me on the reactions over the court ruling but I think the majority of Malaysians are still peace-loving and we should have dialogue to resolve this," said another worshipper who only wanted to be identified as Lee. A police car was stationed outside the nearby protestant Life Chapel church, which had a Molotov cocktail thrown into its porch, and volunteers stood guard and checked worshippers' cars. The 1,000-strong congregation of the Metro Tabernacle church, the worst damaged in the attacks, moved its service to a hall offered by Malaysia's ruling party. 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