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• German pope faces toughest visit to skeptical homeland (Reuters)
• Pa. Catholic university nixes Ellen Goodman speech (AP)
• Religion news in brief (AP)
• Iraqi Christians find safety in north, but no jobs (Reuters)
• Pope OKs early retirement for Indiana Archbishop (AP)
• Muslim students' speech trial goes to Calif jury (AP)

German pope faces toughest visit to skeptical homeland (Reuters) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 03:11 PM PDT Reuters - Pope Benedict starts his most difficult visit yet to his German homeland on Thursday, touring mostly Protestant and atheist regions in the ex-communist east after previous visits to Catholic strongholds in the Rhineland and his native Bavaria.

Pa. Catholic university nixes Ellen Goodman speech (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 08:57 AM PDT AP - A Catholic university in central Pennsylvania has canceled a speech by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman because she supports abortion rights.

Religion news in brief (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 08:47 AM PDT AP - Ky. lawmaker trying to find compromise in debate over safety sign required on Amish buggies

Iraqi Christians find safety in north, but no jobs (Reuters) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 07:07 AM PDT Reuters - Menas Saad Youssef no longer fears being blown up while praying in a church. But she and many other traumatized Christians who fled Iraq's capital for safer areas have a new crisis -- no jobs.

Pope OKs early retirement for Indiana Archbishop (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 03:35 AM PDT AP - The pope has approved early retirement for Indianapolis Archbishop Daniel Buechlein, who has battled cancer and a stroke in recent years.

Muslim students' speech trial goes to Calif jury (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 12:19 AM PDT AP - A jury is considering the limits of free speech as it deliberates in the trial of 10 Muslim students charged with disrupting a speech by an Israeli diplomat at the University of California, Irvine.

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