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• Poles divided over religious slaughter of animals
• U.N. rights body poses tough questions to Vatican over child abuse
• Ky. church wants pastor gone after wife's column
• Pope Francis decides to canonize Pope John XXIII even without having usual miracle approved

Poles divided over religious slaughter of animals Posted: 10 Jul 2013 09:16 AM PDT Polish farmers marched through Warsaw's streets Wednesday to back government plans to repeal a ban on the religious slaughter of animals. Lawmakers will vote Friday on a government draft law that would ...

U.N. rights body poses tough questions to Vatican over child abuse Posted: 10 Jul 2013 08:16 AM PDT By Robert Evans GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations human rights panel has posed a list of tough questions to the Vatican about child abuse by Catholic priests, a potential embarrassment for Pope Francis a few months into his papacy. The U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) asked for "detailed information on all cases of child sexual abuse committed by members of the clergy, brothers or nuns" since the Holy See last reported to it some 15 years ago, and set November 1 as a deadline for a reply. ...

Ky. church wants pastor gone after wife's column Posted: 10 Jul 2013 01:38 AM PDT LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A newspaper column lampooning Southern Baptists, calling the group "the crazy old paranoid uncle of evangelical Christians," is causing quite a stir in a Kentucky city and put a pastor's job in jeopardy.

Pope Francis decides to canonize Pope John XXIII even without having usual miracle approved Posted: 05 Jul 2013 04:02 AM PDT Pope Francis decides to canonize Pope John XXIII even without having usual miracle approved.

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