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Dresden rejects UNESCO ultimatum over bridge - Summary
Dresden, Germany - Senior officials in the German city of Dresden rejected on Friday a deadline from UNESCO to halt construction work on a steel highway bridge across the Elbe Valley. On Thursday, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, meeting in Quebe...
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Pope Benedict to read out Bible on television
Rome - Pope Benedict XVI plans to read out the Bible on Italian television in the autumn, Vatican sources said Thursday. State-run RAI Television is due to run a series of readings from October 5 in which Vatican dignitaries read out the Bible from c...
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2008-07-03 ] Category : [
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Germany to allow church only marriages from next year
Berlin - German couples will soon be able to get married in church without first going through a civil ceremony in the registry office for the first time in 130 years. The daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung uncovered the detail in a little-noticed piece of l...
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2008-07-03 ] Category : [
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Australians expect Pope to apologize to sex victims
Sydney - Australia's leading Catholic prelate on Sunday stoked speculation that Pope Benedict XVI will apologize during his Sydney visit to victims abused by priests. The pope, who will be in Australia next month to preside over Sydney's World Youth ...
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2008-06-29 ] Category : [
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Indian Catholic missionaries bound for Germany
Hildesheim, Germany - A German Catholic diocese unveiled plans Friday to borrow about 12 priests from India's Kerala state because it cannot recruit enough German men to lead prayers and run parishes. The diocese of Hildesheim in northern Germany w...
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2008-06-27 ] Category : [
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