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• Trial of Pope's butler: Journalists admitted, but secret evidence not
• Russian Church tells Pussy Riot to repent before appeal
• Explosive attack on Kenya church kills 1 child, wounds several; latest in series of attacks
• Decision on Anglican archbishop may be months away
• Russian church: Pussy Riot deserve mercy if repent
• Obama and Romney fight for religious groups’ votes. Then there’s Romney’s Mormon faith
• Pope's bid to win over Catholic rebels seems at dead end
• Explosive attack on Kenya church kills 1 child
• Russian church urges Pussy Riot members to repent
• Russian Orthodox Church asks for clemency for jailed Pussy Riot rockers if they repent
• Anglican church deadlocked over new leader: report
• Child killed in Kenya church grenade attack

Trial of Pope's butler: Journalists admitted, but secret evidence not Posted: 30 Sep 2012 11:27 AM PDT The Pope's personal butler will be cross-examined by a Vatican court on Tuesday in a closely-watched trial in which he is accused of stealing highly sensitive documents, some of them from the desk of Benedict XVI himself.

Russian Church tells Pussy Riot to repent before appeal Posted: 30 Sep 2012 08:47 AM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian Orthodox Church on Sunday called for members of the Pussy Riot punk band to repent, on the eve of an appeal court hearing they hope will quash their two-year jail sentences for performing an anti-Kremlin song in Moscow's main cathedral. The three women - who belted out a "punk prayer" criticizing President Vladimir Putin's close ties to the Russian Orthodox Church - were convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" by a district court on August 17. ...

Explosive attack on Kenya church kills 1 child, wounds several; latest in series of attacks Posted: 30 Sep 2012 07:00 AM PDT NAIROBI, Kenya - The acting police chief in Kenya's capital says an explosive device set off in a Sunday school class killed one child and seriously wounded three.

Decision on Anglican archbishop may be months away Posted: 30 Sep 2012 06:56 AM PDT The Church of England says that a decision to select the new archbishop of Canterbury — the spiritual leader of the 80-million-strong global Anglican communion — could still be months away.

Russian church: Pussy Riot deserve mercy if repent Posted: 30 Sep 2012 06:48 AM PDT The Russian Orthodox Church on Sunday asked for clemency for three jailed members of the rock band Pussy Riot if they repent for their "punk prayer" for deliverance from President Vladimir Putin at Moscow's main cathedral, a statement that came a day before an appeal hearing and appeared to reflect a desire to put an end to the case that has caused an international outrage.

Obama and Romney fight for religious groups’ votes. Then there’s Romney’s Mormon faith Posted: 30 Sep 2012 06:15 AM PDT Separation of church and state may be a constitutional requirement in US government. But in Election 2012 politics, religion has become an increasingly important factor.

Pope's bid to win over Catholic rebels seems at dead end Posted: 30 Sep 2012 05:57 AM PDT PARIS (Reuters)- Pope Benedict's bid to draw rebel Catholic traditionalists back to the Roman fold, a major effort that has divided Catholics and sometimes embarrassed him, seems to have hit a dead end with little apparent hope of a solution. Two leaders of the Society of St Pius X (SSPX), which broke away over reforms of the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council, have recently rejected his conditions for their rehabilitation after a series of contacts following his 2005 election as pope. ...

Explosive attack on Kenya church kills 1 child Posted: 30 Sep 2012 05:47 AM PDT The acting police chief in Kenya's capital says an explosive device set off in a Sunday school class killed one child and seriously wounded three.

Russian church urges Pussy Riot members to repent Posted: 30 Sep 2012 04:19 AM PDT The Russian Orthodox Church is asking for clemency for three jailed members of the rock band Pussy Riot if they repent for their "punk prayer" for deliverance from President Vladimir Putin at Moscow's main cathedral.

Russian Orthodox Church asks for clemency for jailed Pussy Riot rockers if they repent Posted: 30 Sep 2012 03:52 AM PDT MOSCOW - The Russian Orthodox Church is asking for clemency for three jailed members of the rock band Pussy Riot if they repent for their "punk prayer" for deliverance from President Vladimir Putin at Moscow's main cathedral.

Anglican church deadlocked over new leader: report Posted: 30 Sep 2012 03:40 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - A Church of England panel meeting in secret to choose the next Archbishop of Canterbury has failed to reach agreement on who should be the new leader of the world's 80 million Anglicans, a newspaper reported on Sunday. After three days of talks behind closed doors in an undisclosed location, officials narrowed the field to three candidates, but will need to meet again to finish the job, the Sunday Times said, citing an unnamed senior cleric. ...

Child killed in Kenya church grenade attack Posted: 30 Sep 2012 03:10 AM PDT NAIROBI (Reuters) - A nine-year-old boy was killed and three other children wounded when a hand grenade was thrown into a Sunday school session in a church in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, police and medical staff said. Kenya has suffered a series of grenade attacks since it sent troops across the border into Somalia last October in pursuit of Islamist al Shabaab militants who it blamed for kidnapping its security personnel and Western tourists. ...

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