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• In Burma, Satellite Images Show Extent of Religious Violence
• Parents of disabled RI boy say they were speechless, moved to tears after Easter hug from Pope
• Insight: Pope to review Vatican bureaucracy, scandal-ridden bank
• Parents: Speechless after Pope hugged disabled son

In Burma, Satellite Images Show Extent of Religious Violence Posted: 02 Apr 2013 10:32 AM PDT The scale of devastation wreaked by last month's communal riots in central Burma has been revealed by new satellite images. The remains of hundreds of smoldering homes scar three once-thriving Muslim neighborhoods of Meikhtila, a town of 100,000 people around 500 km north of Rangoon. Human Rights Watch (HRW) claims 828 buildings were obliterated across some 24 hectares. Most shocking has been the leading role the Buddhist clergy played in the bloodshed, creating a tinderbox atmosphere across the country that shows little sign of dissipating.

Parents of disabled RI boy say they were speechless, moved to tears after Easter hug from Pope Posted: 02 Apr 2013 10:22 AM PDT JOHNSTON, R.I. - A U.S. couple says they were speechless and moved to tears when Pope Francis hugged and kissed their 8-year-old son in St. Peter's Square on Easter Sunday.

Insight: Pope to review Vatican bureaucracy, scandal-ridden bank Posted: 02 Apr 2013 06:48 AM PDT By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, who has said he wants the Catholic Church to be a model of austerity and honesty, could restructure or even close the Vatican's scandal-ridden bank as part of a broad review of its troubled bureaucracy, Vatican sources say. Francis, who inherited a Church mired in scandals over priests' sexual abuse of children and the leak of confidential documents alleging corruption and infighting in the Vatican's central administration, is mulling his options as he sets the tone for a reformed and humbler Holy See. ...

Parents: Speechless after Pope hugged disabled son Posted: 02 Apr 2013 04:51 AM PDT JOHNSTON, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island couple says they were speechless and moved to tears when Pope Francis hugged and kissed their 8-year-old son in St. Peter's Square on Easter Sunday.

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