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• Easter spirit endures in tornado-wrecked churches (AP)
• Pope talks to public in rare TV broadcast (Reuters)
• Pope talks of suffering during Good Friday TV show (AP)
• Utah church offers free Korans in Easter gesture (Reuters)
• Pope Engages in First Ever Televised Q&A (The Atlantic Wire)
• Pope shows candid side in chat-show debut (AFP)
• Court backs Ohio Muslim leader stopped at border (AP)
• Pope to call space station in papal first (AP)
• Filipinos re-enact Jesus's crucifixion in Easter ritual (Reuters)

Easter spirit endures in tornado-wrecked churches (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 04:05 PM PDT AP - The huge holes in the walls of Zoar Baptist Church make it look like it was punched by a gigantic fist. The roof and steeple are gone, lost to one of the myriad tornadoes that wreaked deadly havoc from Oklahoma to Virginia last week.

Pope talks to public in rare TV broadcast (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 03:31 PM PDT Reuters - Pope Benedict took questions from a child in Japan, a Muslim woman in Ivory Coast and a mother caring for a son in a permanent coma in his first televised dialogue with the public, broadcast on Good Friday.

Pope talks of suffering during Good Friday TV show (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 02:54 PM PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI consoled a 7-year-old Japanese girl, reassured a mother about her ailing son's soul and advised a Muslim woman that dialogue was the way to peace in Ivory Coast.

Utah church offers free Korans in Easter gesture (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 01:09 PM PDT Reuters - A Utah church is giving away free copies of the Koran in an Easter season ecumenical riposte to the recent burning of the Islamic holy book by a controversial Florida pastor.

Pope Engages in First Ever Televised Q&A (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 09:30 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire - Pope Benedict XVI made papal history today when he appeared on Italian state television to engage in a question and answer session with the public in honor of Good Friday, having previously only granted televised interviews to journalists. While the segment, as Reuters points out, was modeled on an Italian chat show--with a moderator, panel of experts, studio audience, and the pope communicating with questioners around the world on a split screen--it wasn't exactly hard-hitting TV. The Vatican chose seven questions from thousands of submissions and pre-recorded the show last week (we also imagine Italian chat show sets aren't normally as ornate as the Vatican library, pictured above).

Pope shows candid side in chat-show debut (AFP) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 09:07 AM PDT AFP - Pope Benedict XVI said Friday he had no answers to the misery of global calamities during an unusually candid televised question-and-answer session in a first for a leader of the Catholic Church.

Court backs Ohio Muslim leader stopped at border (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 07:41 AM PDT AP - A federal appeals court has sided with an Ohio Muslim leader who is trying to find out why she was detained at a border crossing five years ago.

Pope to call space station in papal first (AP) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 07:28 AM PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI will be in satellite contact with two Italian astronauts aboard the International Space Station in what would be the first papal call to space.

Filipinos re-enact Jesus's crucifixion in Easter ritual (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2011 12:49 AM PDT Reuters - Nearly two dozen Filipinos were nailed to crosses to re-enact the passion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday, in what they see as an extreme display of devotion but which the Roman Catholic Church criticizes as a distortion of the Easter message.

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