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• Britain rejects involvement of pope in Falklands dispute
• Christian group apologizes to gay community
• Christian-Islamic fusion in masterpieces and the everyday in Spain's southernmost region
• Pope blames speculation, corruption for 'scandalous' food crisis
• China jails 19 Uighurs for religious extremism

Britain rejects involvement of pope in Falklands dispute Posted: 20 Jun 2013 02:55 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Britain and a representative of the Falkland Islands on Thursday rejected the idea of Pope Francis intervening in the long-running dispute with Argentina over the islands, which Buenos Aires claims are Argentine territory. In 1982 Britain sent its armed forces to the Falklands to repel an Argentine invasion of the contested South Atlantic archipelago, which Argentina calls Las Malvinas. ...

Christian group apologizes to gay community Posted: 20 Jun 2013 02:36 PM PDT The leader of Exodus International, a Christian ministry that worked to help people repress same-sex attraction, has apologized to the gay community for inflicting "years of undue suffering." He plans to close the organization while launching a new effort to promote reconciliation.

Christian-Islamic fusion in masterpieces and the everyday in Spain's southernmost region Posted: 20 Jun 2013 01:37 PM PDT GRANADA, Spain - For the third time in a week, I'm touring the Alhambra, one of the most popular sites in the world's fourth most-visited country, and finally I have it all for myself.

Pope blames speculation, corruption for 'scandalous' food crisis Posted: 20 Jun 2013 04:16 AM PDT ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Thursday that financial speculation and corruption were keeping millions of people in hunger and the financial crisis could not be used as an alibi for failing to help the poor. The speech was the latest in a series of criticisms by the Argentinian pontiff, the first Latin American pope, of what he has called "the dictatorship of the economy" and the spread of consumerist values. "It is a well-known fact that current levels of production are sufficient, yet millions of people are still suffering and dying of starvation. ...

China jails 19 Uighurs for religious extremism Posted: 19 Jun 2013 08:40 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - Courts in China's far western region of Xinjiang have sentenced 19 ethnic Uighurs to up to six years in jail for promoting racial hatred and religious extremism online, in the latest crackdown on what China sees as violent separatists. All but one of those jailed were from the heavily Uighur southern part of Xinjiang, including eight from the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, the official Legal Daily reported on its website. ...

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