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• Florida pastor refuses to 'repent' for Koran threat (AFP)
• Pope sports Scottish tartan created by American (Reuters)
• Pope in UK urges tolerance, warns against atheism (Reuters)
• A brief look at the pope's British visit (AP)

Florida pastor refuses to 'repent' for Koran threat (AFP) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 11:37 AM PDT AFP - An evangelical Florida pastor Thursday refused to apologize for having threatened to burn the Koran, and renewed accusations that radical Islam was a "destructive" religion.

Pope sports Scottish tartan created by American (Reuters) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 10:56 AM PDT Reuters - Pope Benedict paraded through Edinburgh on Thursday wearing a potent symbol of Scottish nationalism -- a tartan shawl of a pattern created by an American in honor of his visit to Scotland.

Pope in UK urges tolerance, warns against atheism (Reuters) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 11:43 AM PDT Reuters - Pope Benedict started a trip to Britain on Thursday with some of the clearest criticism yet of his Church's handling of its sexual abuse crisis and urged the country to beware of "aggressive secularism."

A brief look at the pope's British visit (AP) Posted: 16 Sep 2010 03:52 AM PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI is the first pope to be accorded a state visit to Britain, meaning that he was invited by the monarch as the head over another state, the Vatican. However, the queen will not host a banquet for Benedict, as she does for other state visits. Pope John Paul II came to Britain in 1982 on a pastoral visit organized by the church.

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