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• Church abuse victim faces trial for beating priest
• Gunfire, blasts as religions clash in north Nigeria
• Pope to visit northern Italy's Reggio Emilia quake zone; selects town where parish priest died
• Police: Sect attacks in NE Nigeria city days after claiming trio of deadly church blasts

Church abuse victim faces trial for beating priest Posted: 19 Jun 2012 12:25 PM PDT More than 35 years after William Lynch says he and his little brother were molested by a priest during a camping trip in the Santa Cruz Mountains, he will get his longtime wish to face the aging Jesuit in court for the first time. But it is Lynch who is going on trial.

Gunfire, blasts as religions clash in north Nigeria Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:59 AM PDT KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian Muslims fired AK-47 rifles, burned tires and destroyed at least one church in the northern city of Kaduna on Tuesday, two days after rioting by Christian youths killed 52 people, witnesses said. An explosion also struck a market in Kaduna, residents said, during the latest of a series of retaliatory confrontations between followers of the two faiths in Africa's largest oil producer. ...

Pope to visit northern Italy's Reggio Emilia quake zone; selects town where parish priest died Posted: 19 Jun 2012 06:57 AM PDT VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI will travel to Italy's northern Emilia Romagna region next week to meet with victims of back-to-back earthquakes that killed 24 people.

Police: Sect attacks in NE Nigeria city days after claiming trio of deadly church blasts Posted: 19 Jun 2012 04:06 AM PDT MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Nigerian police say suspected radical sect members launched multiple attacks in a northeastern city just days after they committed a trio of deadly church attacks in a northern state.

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