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• Hundreds leave pioneering Fla. megachurch (AP)
• Pope to visit Cyprus in June (AP)
• Pope meets Pakistan president at summer retreat (AP)
• Lebanese Muslim scholars object to samba (AFP)
• Pope Benedict XVI to attend WWII concert (AP)

Hundreds leave pioneering Fla. megachurch (AP) Posted: 01 Oct 2009 01:45 PM PDT AP - Hundreds of congregants have left a pioneering megachurch in Florida to form their own congregation because they were unhappy with leadership at the church that's seen as a bedrock of the religious right.

Pope to visit Cyprus in June (AP) Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:45 AM PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI will visit Cyprus next year, the Vatican said Thursday, bringing to four the number of foreign trips planned for the pontiff in 2010.

Pope meets Pakistan president at summer retreat (AP) Posted: 01 Oct 2009 06:53 AM PDT AP - The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI and the president of Pakistan discussed the need to end religious discrimination during a meeting at the papal summer retreat.

Lebanese Muslim scholars object to samba (AFP) Posted: 01 Oct 2009 06:40 AM PDT AFP - A group of Lebanese Muslim scholars on Thursday forced the cancellation of a planned performance by a Brazilian samba troupe in the southern coastal city of Tyre on moral and religious grounds.

Pope Benedict XVI to attend WWII concert (AP) Posted: 01 Oct 2009 06:11 AM PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI will attend a concert marking the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II being performed by young musicians from around the globe.

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