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Holy Land church leaders say clergy mistreated

Posted: 12 May 2013 10:47 AM PDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — A dozen senior church leaders in the Holy Land say Israeli police "ill-treated" clergy, including a Coptic Egyptian cleric, during Orthodox Easter services.

Pope Francis gives church hundreds of new saints

Posted: 12 May 2013 06:15 AM PDT

Pope Francis, middle, kisses the altar as he arrives to celebrate his first canonization ceremony in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, May 12, 2013. The pontiff will canonize Antonio Primaldo and his companions, also known as the Martyrs of Otranto, Laura di Santa Caterina da Siena Montoya of Colombia, and Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala of Mexico in a ceremony at the Vatican on Sunday. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic Church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canonization ceremony Sunday in a packed St. Peter's Square.

A look at new saints canonized by Pope Francis

Posted: 12 May 2013 05:58 AM PDT

The tapestry of Laura di Santa Caterina da Siena Montoya of Colombia hangs from a balcony in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican prior to the start of the canonization ceremony led by Pope Francis Sunday, May 12, 2013. The pontiff will canonize, Laura di Santa Caterina da Siena Montoya, Antonio Primaldo and his companions, also known as the Martyrs of Otranto, and Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala of Mexico in a ceremony at the Vatican on Sunday. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has made hundreds of new saints at his first canonization ceremony in St. Peter's Square. Here is a look at the people receiving the Catholic Church's highest honor:

Egyptian Christian who stabbed wife kills himself

Posted: 12 May 2013 05:45 AM PDT

ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian security officials say a Coptic Christian who stabbed his wife for converting to Islam has killed himself by jumping out of a fourth-story courthouse window.

Pope proclaims first saints, says Christians still persecuted

Posted: 12 May 2013 04:12 AM PDT

Pope Francis waves at the end of a canonization mass in Saint Peter's Square at the VaticanBy Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday proclaimed as saints some 800 Italians killed in the 15th century for refusing to convert to Islam, and said many Christians were still being persecuted for their faith. The Vatican seemed at pains not to allow the first canonizations of Francis' two-month-old papacy to be interpreted as anti-Islamic, saying the deaths of the 'Otranto Marytrs' must be understood in their historical context. ...

NY man finishes writing out entire Bible by hand

Posted: 11 May 2013 08:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 30, 2013 file photo, Phillip Patterson transcribes the King James Bible at this home in Philmont, N.Y. Patterson, a 63-year-old upstate New York man who has spent years writing out every word in the Bible has penning the very last lines. Patterson completed the final lines of the Book of Revelation on Saturday evening, May 11, 2013 during a ceremony at St. Peter's Presbyterian Church in Spencertown, near the Massachusetts border.(AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)SPENCERTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — At last, it is written.

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