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• Lebanon's Christian Patriarch prays for peace in Syria
• Texas church to host handgun license class
• Vatican celebrates Knights of Malta's 900 years

Lebanon's Christian Patriarch prays for peace in Syria Posted: 09 Feb 2013 12:20 PM PST BEIRUT (Reuters) - The head of Lebanon's Maronite Catholic church, Patriarch Beshara al-Rai, prayed in an old Damascus church on Saturday for an end to Syria's civil war. Rai, whose church has 900,000 members in Lebanon, a quarter of the country's population, is on the first visit to Syria by a Maronite Patriarch since the independence of neighboring Lebanon in 1943. His visit comes at a time when Christians in the region feel under threat from the rise of political Islam. ...

Texas church to host handgun license class Posted: 09 Feb 2013 11:28 AM PST DUMAS, Texas (AP) — A Baptist church in the Texas Panhandle plans to host concealed handgun training, saying it's offering the class as a community service because there is so much interest in the area.

Vatican celebrates Knights of Malta's 900 years Posted: 09 Feb 2013 04:19 AM PST VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Knights of Malta, one of the most peculiar organizations in the world, marked its 900th birthday Saturday with a colorful procession through St. Peter's Square, a Mass in the basilica and an audience with Pope Benedict XVI, himself a member of the onetime chivalrous order drawn from Europe's nobility.

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