There have been more attacks on churches in Malaysia, in a growing dispute over the use of the word Allah by non-Muslims.

马来西亚的教堂受到越来越多的攻击，纷争就非穆斯林使用“真主”一词。

Black paint was thrown at a Baptist Church in Malacca state

The police say petrol bombs汽油弹 were thrown at a church and a convent女修道院 school in the state of Perak, and at a church in Sarawak on the island of Borneo.

Another church in the south of the country was daubed with用……涂抹 black paint.

The attacks come days after four churches near the capital, Kuala Lumpur, were hit by petrol bombs.

Religious tensions in Malaysia have increased since a court ruled last month that a Roman Catholic newspaper could use the word Allah in its Malay-language edition to describe the Christian¹ god.

The petrol bomb thrown at a guard house of a Catholic convent school in the town of Taiping, about 300km (185 miles) from Kuala Lumpur, did not explode.

Several broken bottles and paint thinners涂料稀释剂 were found at the church next to the convent and one of the country's oldest Anglican churches, All Saints, also in Taiping, Reuters路透社 news agency reported.

Police and church officials said bricks and stones were thrown at glass windows of the Good Shepherd Catholic church耶稣善牧主大教堂 in Miri, a logging and oil town in Sarawak state.

In southern Malacca state, the outer wall of the Malacca Baptist Church was splashed with black paint, police said.

Sarawak and neighbouring Sabah state are home to most of Malaysia's Christians², who account for 9.1% of the country's 28 million people.

"The situation is under control and the people should not be worried," Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein was quoted as saying by state news agency Bernama.

Correspondents say some of Malaysia's majority Muslim community suspect Christians of wanting to use the word Allah to encourage Muslims to convert to Christianity.

The government has appealed against提出上诉 the ruling, in contrast to countries like Indonesia, Egypt and Syria where Christian minorities freely use the Arabic word to refer to God.

General secretary of the Council of Churches of Malaysia, Rev³ Hermen Shastri, said Christians would not be intimidated威胁，恐吓 by the attacks.

"We all have to stand together to stamp out扑灭，踩灭 terror perpetuated⁵ by these extremist groups," he said, according to Associated Press news agency.