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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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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Former papal bodyguard Camillo Cibin dies
Rome - Camillo Cibin, the former chief bodyguard of the late Pope John Paul II, died in Rome on Sunday at the age of 83, Italy's ANSA news agency reported. Cibin had spent nearly six decades in the Vatican's security services before he retired in Jun...
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2009-10-25 ] Category : [
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Malta 'nuns' acquitted of vilifying religion
Valletta, Malta - Six people who dressed up as nuns for Malta's carnival earlier this year did not vilify the Catholic religion, the chief justice ruled Friday. In his ruling Vincent De Gaetano upheld a previous acquittal won by the six and against w...
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2009-10-23 ] Category : [
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