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• Indonesian living in NJ church avoid deportation
• Vatican defends family values on Good Friday
• Pope urges families to persevere in economic crisis
• Catholic quandary: Tailgate with brats at Brewers Opening Day or abstain on Good Friday?
• Faith tourist: From Easter at the Vatican to a South Pacific church
• Faith tourist: From Easter at the Vatican to a South Pacific church
• Ohio rabbi's post-war religious books helped maintain faith of displaced Holocaust survivors
• Pope reaffirms ban on women priests, assails disobedience

Indonesian living in NJ church avoid deportation Posted: Inside the New Jersey church where he now lives, Saul Timisela recounted Friday how as a Christian youth leader, he fled his native Indonesia after finding the desecrated corpse of his brother-in-law following an attack by anti-Christian extremists that destroyed their city.

Vatican defends family values on Good Friday Posted: Pope Benedict XVI led the world's Catholics in Good Friday ceremonies clouded by growing Vatican concern over the fate of Christians in the Middle East and perceived threats to its teachings.

Pope urges families to persevere in economic crisis Posted: ROME (Reuters) - Pope Benedict called for perseverance in the face of an economic crisis that has led to hardship and rising unemployment across Europe as he presided over a procession around Rome's Colosseum to mark Jesus Christ's crucifixion and death on Good Friday. The German pontiff, who turns 85 this month, stood before thousands of people holding candles at the traditional Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) march and listened to reflections on family unity that lamented divorce, abortion and infidelity. ...

Catholic quandary: Tailgate with brats at Brewers Opening Day or abstain on Good Friday? Posted: MILWAUKEE - Catholics partying before the Brewers' home opener might want to think twice before grilling the bratwurst and sausage that are near requirements at a Milwaukee tailgate.

Faith tourist: From Easter at the Vatican to a South Pacific church Posted: It is said confession is good for the soul, and so I shall "fess up." I love church hopping, all denominations, observing the diversity with which humankind worships divinity.

Faith tourist: From Easter at the Vatican to a South Pacific church Posted: It is said confession is good for the soul, and so I shall "fess up." I love church hopping, all denominations, observing the diversity with which humankind worships divinity.

Ohio rabbi's post-war religious books helped maintain faith of displaced Holocaust survivors Posted: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A U.S. rabbi who recently purchased two religious books dating to shortly after the Holocaust has drawn attention from historians and archivists for the books' limited run by the U.S. Army to help Holocaust survivors in displacement camps around Europe.

Pope reaffirms ban on women priests, assails disobedience Posted: VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Thursday restated the Roman Catholic Church's ban on women priests and warned that he would not tolerate disobedience by clerics on fundamental teachings. Benedict, who for decades before his 2005 election was the Vatican's chief doctrinal enforcer, delivered an unusually direct denunciation of disobedient priests in a sermon at a morning Mass on Holy Thursday, when the Church commemorates the day Christ instituted the priesthood. ...

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