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By Hilary WhiteSTOCKHOLM, March 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The government of Sweden is taking a hard line against homeschoolers, proposing a bill that will only allow home education under “extraordinary circumstances,” reports the Home School Legal Defense Association. The bill is expected to…
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New York, NY (LifeNews.com/CFAM) — Almost more than any topic, maternal morality has been the focus of this year’s meeting of the United Nations (UN) Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of the Beijing women’s conference.
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The Pope was drawn directly into the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal for the first time tonight as news emerged of his part in a decision to send a paedophile priest for therapy. The priest went on to reoffend and was convicted of child abuse but continues to work as priest in Upper Bavaria. The priest was sent from Essen to Munich for “therapy” in 1980 when he was accused of forcing an 11-year-old boy to perform oral sex. The archdiocese confirmed that the Pope, then a cardinal, had approved a decision to accommodate the priest in a rectory while the therapy took place. The priest, identified only as “H”, was subsequently convicted of sexually abusing minors after he was…
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The case of a sex abuser being given accommodation in Munich with the approval of its then archbishop, now the Pope, is reminiscent of the scandal that engulfed Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor soon after his appointment to Westminster. While Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, he…
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The Second Coming of Da Vinci Quite an opening line for a work of fiction – and, as it turns out – you can expect a good read from there on out (with an ending you won't see coming). The sto…
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Jeremy Daniel Wicker was jailed because a 21-year-old Denton woman complained to police that he was stalking her after she responded to his Craigslist ad seeking a female lead singer for a Christian band, police said.
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Nicole Winfield (AP, March 12, 2010)
Vatican City – Germany’s top bishop briefed Pope Benedict XVI on the spiraling cases of clerical sex abuse in the pontiff’s native Germany on Friday and said the pope encouraged him to pursue the truth and assist the victims.
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Bekasi, Indonesia – Efforts by local officials in this city in West Java to close a church met with stiff resistance this month, as a defiant lawyer and weeping women refused to allow it.
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Fareed Khan ("AsiaNews," March 12, 2010)
Lahore, Pakistan – A Christian girl was raped and burnt alive by the son of a Muslim master, for whom she worked as a maid. The girl died in hospital yesterday after two days of agony, for the burns on 80% of her body.
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Fuan, China – An underground priest from the Diocese of Mindong (Fujian) was arrested for organizing a camp with 300 students. Three other priests who work with him have received an arrest warrant, not yet carried out, a further three were fined up to 500 Yuan (about 50 Euros).
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Toby Elles says he was frying some bacon after a boozy night but fell asleep with the hob on.
If it wasn’t for holy smoke filling the room, the slumbering bank worker might never have woken up.
He quickly turned the heat off and lifted the food – to find a slightly crispy Christ staring back at him, complete with distinctive flowing locks, beard and gentle gaze.
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Yogas Nair ("Independent Online," March 10, 2010)
Mountview, South Africa – A Verulam man who allegedly hacked his sister to death in full view of her five-year-old son, during a bizarre midnight ritual on Saturday, is a Hare Krishna devotee who often spent hours reading spiritual books and meditating with japa (chanting) beads.
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Joseph Guyler Delva ("Reuters ," March 8, 2010)
Port-au-Prince, Haiti – A court in Haiti on Monday freed a U.S. missionary jailed for weeks on charges of kidnapping children in the chaos that followed the country's devastating January 12 earthquake, witnesses said.
Charisa Coulter was due to fly out of Haiti for the United States.
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dpa ("EarthTimes," March 11, 2010)
Mosul, Iraq – Some 122 Christian families have returned to the troubled northern Iraqi city of Mosul since the March 7 parliamentary elections, a local official said Thursday. Representatives of the city's Christian population had earlier told the German Press Agency dpa that some 250 Christian families had fled following a string of deadly attacks targeting the community ahead of the polls.
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David Winters ("Watertown Daily Times," March 11, 2010)
Morristown, USA – Morristown is continuing to cite the Amish for building homes without permits while a federal lawsuit accusing the town of religious discrimination is pending.
Moise L. Swartzentruber, of 151 Stowe Road, was charged in late February. He's the 12th Amish man since 2006 to be charged with failure to comply with building codes in Morristown.
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Ala Salameh ("Daily Illini," March 10, 2010)
Champaign, USA – There are two things people should never to bring to the dinner table: politics and religion. But when four experts of clashing religions converge on grounds to understand one another, the outcome like the attempt, is unparalleled.
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Paul Schemm (AP, March 11, 2010)
Cairo, Egypt – The DNA tests that revealed how the famed boy-king Tutankhamun most likely died solved another of ancient Egypt’s enduring mysteries — the fate of controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten’s mummy. The discovery could help fill out the picture of a fascinating era more than 3,300 years ago when Akhenaten embarked on history’s first attempt at monotheism.
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Vatican City, Mar 12, 2010 / 01:13 pm (CNA).- Archbishop of Freiburg Robert Zollitsch met with Pope Benedict on Friday to speak of the revelations of sexual abuse against minors and measures being taken to investigate and prevent further occurrences. Pope Benedict, he said in a press conference afterward, expressed his “full support” for the steps put in place by the bishops’ conference to respond to abuses.
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Church of England staff picketed the Archbishop of Canterbury’s historic
London residence in their first-ever strike.