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• Obama to parishioners: Keep faith in hard times (AP)
• Pope defends Pius against Jewish critics (AP)
• Jewish leader confronts pope on Holocaust "silence" (Reuters)
• Pope gunman to face medical after release (AP)
• Obama to give church talk, stump in Massachusetts (AP)

Obama to parishioners: Keep faith in hard times (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:12 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama on Sunday recalled the work of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. as he urged those packing a Baptist church to take heart in hard times and celebrate progress — however small.

Pope defends Pius against Jewish critics (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 11:31 AM PST AP - In a synagogue visit haunted by history, Pope Benedict XVI and Jewish leaders sparred Sunday over the record of the World War II-era pope during the Holocaust and agreed on the need to strengthen Catholic-Jewish relations.

Jewish leader confronts pope on Holocaust "silence" (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 11:09 AM PST Reuters - An Italian Jewish leader told Pope Benedict Sunday that his wartime predecessor Pius XII should have spoken out more forcefully against the Holocaust to show solidarity with Jews being led to the "ovens of Auschwitz."

Pope gunman to face medical after release (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 02:59 AM PST AP - The gunman who wounded Pope John Paul II will be forcibly taken to a military facility to assess his fitness for military service when he is released after nearly 30 years in prison, his lawyer said Sunday.

Obama to give church talk, stump in Massachusetts (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2010 02:22 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama will attend church services with his wife, Michelle, and speak to the congregation about helping the people of Haiti.

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