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• Gunmen and suicide bomber attack Nigerian churches
• Boko Haram church attacks kill 3, wound dozens in Nigeria
• NYC mayor defends "stop and frisk" at black church
• Catholic faith on line as church rallies in Dublin
• 20,000 at Catholic festival in Ireland
• Vatican bank has no secret accounts, official says
• Bomb explodes at church in central Nigeria, a restive region divided between faiths

Gunmen and suicide bomber attack Nigerian churches Posted: 10 Jun 2012 03:45 PM PDT MAIDUGURI/JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Islamist militants attacked two churches in Nigeria on Sunday, spraying the congregation of one with bullets, killing at least one person, and blowing up a car in a suicide bombing at the other, wounding 41, witnesses and police said. No one was killed by the car bombing in the central city of Jos, but youths attacked bystanders in retaliation, killing two, police said. Islamist group Boko Haram's spokesman Abu Qaqa claimed responsibility for both attacks. ...

Boko Haram church attacks kill 3, wound dozens in Nigeria Posted: 10 Jun 2012 01:17 PM PDT A suicide bomber blew his car up outside a church and gunmen opened fire on another service in Nigeria on Sunday, killing three people and wounding dozens in attacks claimed by Boko Haram.

NYC mayor defends "stop and frisk" at black church Posted: 10 Jun 2012 11:46 AM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg took his defense of the police department's "Stop and Frisk" program to one of Brooklyn's highest crime communities on Sunday, championing the program from the pulpit of a black church in Brownsville. Civil rights advocates, civil libertarians and a federal judge have criticized some aspects of the program as unlawful, abusive of residents' rights and disproportionately aimed at blacks and Latinos. ...

Catholic faith on line as church rallies in Dublin Posted: 10 Jun 2012 11:19 AM PDT An international conference celebrating Roman Catholicism opened Sunday in Ireland against a backdrop of anger over child abuse cover-ups and evidence of declining faith in core church beliefs.

20,000 at Catholic festival in Ireland Posted: 10 Jun 2012 10:48 AM PDT Around 20,000 pilgrims on Sunday attended the start of an international Catholic festival of faith and culture in Ireland where the church has been hit by child abuse scandals and falling attendance.

Vatican bank has no secret accounts, official says Posted: 10 Jun 2012 08:52 AM PDT ROME (Reuters) - A senior official of the Vatican's bank denied on Sunday a reports that prominent Italian lay clients including politicians held secret numbered accounts at the institution, which is caught up in a money laundering investigation. The Institute for Works of Religion (IOR) has been in the spotlight since 2010 when Italian investigators froze 23 million euros ($28.75 million) of its funds in Italian banks as part of their inquiry. ...

Bomb explodes at church in central Nigeria, a restive region divided between faiths Posted: 10 Jun 2012 04:28 AM PDT JOS, Nigeria - Witnesses say a bomb has exploded at a church in a restive central Nigerian city on the dividing line between the nation's Muslim north and Christian south, causing unknown injuries.

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