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• Catholic Church withdraws subpoena to Obama on birth control
• Two kidnapped Syrian bishops freed: church official
• Pope calls for release of 2 bishops in Syria
• Boston bomb suspect charged; religious motive seen

Catholic Church withdraws subpoena to Obama on birth control Posted: 23 Apr 2013 11:47 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scaling down a legal fight with the White House, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York has agreed to drop a request for documents about the government's requirement of insurance coverage for birth control, a court filing on Monday said. The archdiocese sent a subpoena to President Barack Obama's administration in February asking for documents from White House staff, including Obama himself, for use in a church lawsuit against the contraception mandate. ...

Two kidnapped Syrian bishops freed: church official Posted: 23 Apr 2013 09:35 AM PDT DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Kidnappers freed two Syrian bishops on Tuesday who had been abducted in the northern city of Aleppo, a church official said, but the identities of their kidnappers remained uncertain. "The two are on their way to the patriarchy in Aleppo," Bishop Tony Yazigi told Reuters in the capital Damascus. Yazigi, a relative of one of the kidnapped bishops, did not say who was behind the kidnapping of Greek Orthodox archbishop Paul Yazigi and Syriac Orthodox archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim. ...

Pope calls for release of 2 bishops in Syria Posted: 23 Apr 2013 04:46 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is calling for the rapid release of two bishops kidnapped by gunmen in Syria while on a humanitarian mission.

Boston bomb suspect charged; religious motive seen Posted: 22 Apr 2013 08:37 PM PDT BOSTON (AP) — The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon appear to have been motivated by a radical brand of Islam but do not seem connected to any Muslim terrorist groups, U.S. officials said Monday after interrogating and charging Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with crimes that could bring the death penalty.

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