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• Christian Bale to climb "Everest" for Working Title, Universal
• Ireland apologizes to women of Catholic laundries
• Rome's gays toast the departure of an unloved pope
• Federal government to announce Religious Freedom Office today in Maple, Ont.

Christian Bale to climb "Everest" for Working Title, Universal Posted: 19 Feb 2013 02:54 PM PST NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Christian Bale is bracing to climb Mount Everest. The Welsh actor is in talks to star in "Everest," a film about two deadly days on the world's tallest mountain that Baltasar Kormakur is in talks to direct for Universal and Working Title, multiple individuals close to the project told TheWrap. The film tells the same story as Jon Krakauer's book "Into Thin Air," but is not an adaptation of it, according to one of those individuals. Krakauer wrote the book about a two-day span in 1996 when eight people died on Mount Everest while attempting to reach the summit. ...

Ireland apologizes to women of Catholic laundries Posted: 19 Feb 2013 12:28 PM PST DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland ignored the mistreatment of thousands of women who were incarcerated within Catholic nun-operated laundries and must pay the survivors compensation, Prime Minister Enda Kenny said Tuesday in an emotional state apology for the decades of abuses in the so-called Magdalene Laundries.

Rome's gays toast the departure of an unloved pope Posted: 19 Feb 2013 06:30 AM PST ROME (Reuters) - Across the road from the Colosseum, the ancient Roman stadium consecrated as a holy Christian site, clients at a busy bar are raising a glass to the pope: toasting the departure of the worst Church leader they can imagine. For drinkers in Rome's best known gay bar, Benedict's abdication is a blessing. "He was less human than the last one," said Flavia Servadei, co-owner of "Coming Out" a small bar in Via San Giovanni in Laterano which has been so successful since it opened in 2001 that the road has been renamed "Gay Street". ...

Federal government to announce Religious Freedom Office today in Maple, Ont. Posted: 19 Feb 2013 01:07 AM PST MAPLE, Ont. - The federal government is planning to announce its long-awaited Office of Religious Freedom in an event today at a mosque north of Toronto.

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