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• Woman, 20, dies after freak Fla. church shooting (AP)
• Stars mourn Whitney Houston at rousing New Jersey funeral (Reuters)
• Rick Santorum questions Obama's Christian values (AP)
• NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast (AP)
• Pope wants to see Fidel Castro on Cuba trip: source (Reuters)
• Atheists raise $40K for student in RI prayer flap (AP)
• Pope sets Oct. 21 to make US saints (AP)
• 22 cardinals join club to elect pope's successor (AP)
• Pope leaves stamp on Church future with new cardinals (Reuters)
• Court: Only 1 church can use NYC schools, for now (AP)
• Whitney Houston's hometown remembers her fondly (Reuters)

Woman, 20, dies after freak Fla. church shooting (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 03:58 PM PST AP - Authorities say a Florida pastor's daughter who was accidentally shot in the head in a church died Saturday at a hospital.

Stars mourn Whitney Houston at rousing New Jersey funeral (Reuters) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 03:24 PM PST Reuters - Stars, family and friends mourned Whitney Houston in a spirited Baptist funeral service at her hometown church on Saturday, a week after the death of the singer whose spectacular voice made her one of the biggest pop stars of her era.

Rick Santorum questions Obama's Christian values (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 12:55 PM PST AP - Lashing out on two fronts, Rick Santorum on Saturday questioned President Barack Obama's Christian values and attacked GOP rival Mitt Romney's Olympics leadership as he courted tea party activists and evangelical voters in Ohio, "ground zero" in the 2012 nomination fight.

NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 12:46 PM PST AP - The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned.

Pope wants to see Fidel Castro on Cuba trip: source (Reuters) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 12:44 PM PST Reuters - Pope Benedict wants to see Fidel Castro on his trip to Cuba next month but the meeting will depend on the health of the communist country's revolutionary leader, a senior Vatican official told Reuters on Saturday.

Atheists raise $40K for student in RI prayer flap (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 12:31 PM PST AP - A national association that says there's no proof for the existence of God is managing a scholarship fund set up for a teenage atheist at the center of a dispute over a prayer banner at a Rhode Island school.

Pope sets Oct. 21 to make US saints (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 08:56 AM PST AP - Pope Benedict XVI has set Oct. 21 as the date to make two U.S. saints: Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk Indian who spent most of her life in what is now upstate New York, and Mother Marianne Cope, who began religious life in the same area but moved to Hawaii to care for leprosy patients.

22 cardinals join club to elect pope's successor (AP) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 08:30 AM PST AP - Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday brought 22 Catholic churchmen into the elite club of cardinals who will elect his successor, cementing the Italian majority in a future conclave but also giving New York's garrulous archbishop a position of prominence.

Pope leaves stamp on Church future with new cardinals (Reuters) Posted: 18 Feb 2012 05:57 AM PST Reuters - Pope Benedict, putting his mark on his Church's future, Saturday inducted 22 men into the exclusive group of cardinals who will one day elect one of their own to succeed him as leader of the world's 1.3 billion Roman Catholics.

Court: Only 1 church can use NYC schools, for now (AP) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 07:43 PM PST AP - An appeals court added another twist Friday to the battle over worship services in New York City schools when it sharply narrowed the scope of a restraining order issued the previous day.

Whitney Houston's hometown remembers her fondly (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2012 05:54 PM PST Reuters - The New Hope Baptist Church, where pop star Whitney Houston first sang and family and friends will gather on Saturday to pay her a final tribute, sits in a hardscrabble corner of Newark, New Jersey. Its well-maintained red-brick facade seems at odds with the dusty parking lot and derelict housing projects around it.

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