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• Muslim girl's lawyer: Fla. bar complaint meritless (AP)
• Pope rejects appeal from closed Mass. parishes (AP)
• Construction work starts at Lourdes shrine (AP)
• Hundreds at NY church possibly exposed to virus (AP)

Muslim girl's lawyer: Fla. bar complaint meritless (AP) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 03:05 PM PST AP - A Florida attorney says a misconduct complaint filed against him over his representation of a Muslim Ohio girl who converted to Christianity and ran away is a frivolous motion by a disgruntled opposing lawyer.

Pope rejects appeal from closed Mass. parishes (AP) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 11:35 AM PST AP - Pope Benedict XVI has rejected an appeal from a group of Boston-area parishioners who asked him to reverse a seven-year-old decision to close their churches, some of which have been occupied since in protest.

Construction work starts at Lourdes shrine (AP) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 09:00 AM PST AP - Workers dangling from rock-climbing ropes on Tuesday began a monthlong construction effort to prevent stones from falling in the grotto where worshippers pray at the Roman Catholic shrine of Lourdes.

Hundreds at NY church possibly exposed to virus (AP) Posted: 03 Jan 2011 08:29 PM PST AP - Health officials say hundreds of people may have been exposed to hepatitis A while receiving communion on Christmas Day at a church on Long Island, N.Y.

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