Pope Benedict: Church must seek dialogue with people
Brescia, Italy - Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday his own Catholic Church should do more to reach out to people in times of great challenges and to provide them with courage and support. While on a pastoral visit to the northern Italian city of Brescia,...
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2009-11-08 ] Category : [
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Vatican calls for more access to Cuban mass media
Havana - The Vatican on Saturday called on the government of Cuba to allow the Catholic Church greater access to mass media in the communist country. Our wish is for the Cuban church to have a more normal access to mass communication media, Archbis...
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2009-11-07 ] Category : [
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Construction of France's largest mosque set to begin
Paris - The construction of France's largest mosque, with room for some 7,000 visitors, was officially launched Friday when Marseille Mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin handed over the construction permit. The mosque will cost 22 million euros (32.6 million do...
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2009-11-06 ] Category : [
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Anti-communist Hungarian Catholic bishop beatified
Budapest - The late Hungarian bishop Zoltan Meszlenyi - who was persecuted by the country's then communist rulers - was beatified by the Catholic Church in a ceremony in the city of Esztergom on Saturday. Born in 1892 and considered by Hungary's Stal...
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2009-10-31 ] Category : [
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Vietnam criticizes US religious rights report
Hanoi - Vietnam called a US State Department report on religious freedom in the country biased and misleading, the official Vietnam News reported Thursday. The State Department's International Religious Freedom Report 2009, released Monday, said ...
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2009-10-29 ] Category : [
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Female bishop elected leader of German protestants
Ulm, Germany - The Evangelical Church in Germany, the country's main Protestant umbrella body, Wednesday elected a female bishop as its leader. Bishop Margot Kaessmann, 51 is the first woman to lead Germany's 25 million Protestants. She takes over fr...
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2009-10-28 ] Category : [
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