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Diverse group to advise faith-based office (AP) Posted: 03 Feb 2009 08:03 PM CST AP - The Obama administration is set to announce a diverse set of advisers to a revamped White House office that will steer government money to religious and neighborhood groups doing social service work. They include a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, a Jewish rabbi active in Washington and a pioneering female African-American bishop.

Merkel: Pope must clarify Holocaust stance (AP) Posted: 03 Feb 2009 03:38 PM CST AP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Pope Benedict XVI to make a "very clear" rejection of Holocaust denials after the Vatican's rehabilitation of a former bishop who questioned whether 6 million Jews were gassed by the Nazis.

Pope urges Catholics to keep up fasting (AP) Posted: 03 Feb 2009 06:52 AM CST AP - Pope Benedict XVI says fasting is important for modern Catholics because it helps make them aware of the deprived state in which many people live.

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