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• Obamas make rare trip to church while in Hawaii (AP)
• Pope lunches with poor, denounces church attacks (AP)
• Pope urges courage for Catholics in China, Iraq (AP)

Obamas make rare trip to church while in Hawaii (AP) Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:30 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama and his family took a break from their Hawaiian vacation to attend Sunday church services, a rare occurrence for a president who prefers to worship in private.

Pope lunches with poor, denounces church attacks (AP) Posted: 26 Dec 2010 08:34 AM PST AP - Lasagna, veal and cake were on the menu Sunday as Pope Benedict XVI invited about 250 poor people to join him for a post-Christmas lunch and denounced as "absurd" new attacks on the faithful around the globe.

Pope urges courage for Catholics in China, Iraq (AP) Posted: 25 Dec 2010 06:25 PM PST AP - Iraqi Christians celebrated a somber Christmas in a Baghdad cathedral stained with dried blood, while Pope Benedict XVI exhorted Chinese Catholics to stay loyal despite restrictions on them in a holiday address laced with worry for the world's Christian minorities.

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