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Friday, 26 April 2013 12:21

Task force investigating LA church fire

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A national task force that investigates arsons at worship facilities is investigating a fire that has gutted a South Los Angeles church.......
Friday, 26 April 2013 07:12

Finest Hour: Churchill to be on UK bank note

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LONDON (AP) -- Here's a choice not likely to be too controversial: officials say wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill's portrait will be featured on a new 5 pound ($7.7) note.......
Thursday, 25 April 2013 15:59

Vegas man jailed after car driven into church

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HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) -- A Las Vegas man is behind bars after police say he became so enraged at being turned away from speaking with a pastor that he plowed his car through an entrance and down the hall of a large Henderson church.......
Thursday, 25 April 2013 14:46

Pope plans to visit Assisi, home of St Francis

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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis plans to visit Assisi, the birthplace of the Italian saint who inspired his name.......
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Roman Catholic faithful are praying and holding vigils for the Virgin of Copacabana after thieves stole the jewels, gold and rings that adorned Bolivia's patron saint.......
Wednesday, 24 April 2013 16:21

Argentina's 'Grandmothers' seek pope's assistance

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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Members of the Argentine human rights group "Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo" have asked Pope Francis for help finding still-missing children taken from political prisoners during the country's 1979-83 military dictatorship.......
Wednesday, 24 April 2013 10:55

Israeli president to meet new pope next week

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JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli president's office says President Shimon Peres will meet the new head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, next week.......
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican official spearheading the push to make slain Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador a saint says the process is going forward under Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff.......
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentine Mario Poli was inaugurated as the new archbishop of Buenos Aires on Saturday, taking over the post held by Jorge Bergoglio before he became Pope Francis.......
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- As his train rolled across Germany in 1939, passing through small towns where swastikas fluttered from flagpoles, Tad Taube cowered in fear each time Nazi police entered his compartment and barked orders for his documents - papers that plainly identified him as an 8-year-old Jewish boy from Poland.......
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