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• Istanbul's last White Russians pray for church's survival
• Holier than the pope? Not nearly, but Brazil leaders are trying
• Church & Dwight 2nd-quarter results mixed
• Nigeria: Death toll in blasts in Christian area 27
• Analysis: Pope seeks to align Church hierarchy with the pews
• Gay California Catholic teacher's firing sparks online petition
• Christian Bale's 'Out of the Furnace' gets new wide release date from Relativity

Istanbul's last White Russians pray for church's survival Posted: 02 Aug 2013 12:17 PM PDT By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - About 25 Russian Orthodox celebrated a divine liturgy on Friday for the first time in four decades at their rooftop church they fear may be demolished to make way for a tourism project. A choir chanted hymns and women wearing scarves bowed their heads at the crumbling 134-year-old St Elijah Church as they marked the prophet's name day according to the Julian calendar. Istanbul's tiny White Russian community, whose families fled here in the 1920s after losing to the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War, worries that St. ...

Holier than the pope? Not nearly, but Brazil leaders are trying Posted: 02 Aug 2013 07:28 AM PDT By Brian Winter SAO PAULO (Reuters) - With hecklers outside his beachfront apartment and an approval rating down to 12 percent, Rio de Janeiro state Governor Sergio Cabral has turned to a new source for inspiration: Pope Francis. "The pope touched me," Cabral told reporters this week after the pontiff's visit to the world's largest Roman Catholic country for World Youth Day. "I really did need a dose of humility. It was wrong of me not to listen," Cabral said. "I learned from the pope's visit, to listen to the other side. I'm open to listening. ...

Church & Dwight 2nd-quarter results mixed Posted: 02 Aug 2013 05:20 AM PDT Church & Dwight, the maker of Arm & Hammer, posted a 9 percent jump in net income during its most recent quarter on strong sales. Revenue, however, fell short of Wall Street expectations and company shares ...

Nigeria: Death toll in blasts in Christian area 27 Posted: 02 Aug 2013 03:06 AM PDT KANO, Nigeria (AP) — A Christian leader says he carried three bodies from this week's multiple blasts in the northern Nigerian city of Kano to a military hospital, raising the toll to at least 27 dead.

Analysis: Pope seeks to align Church hierarchy with the pews Posted: 02 Aug 2013 12:57 AM PDT By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Some say his trip last week to Brazil, capped by a Mass for 3 million on Copacabana Beach, and the 80-minute, unfiltered news conference on the plane back to Rome, were the real start of Pope Francis's pontificate. During the flight, he fielded 21 questions on subjects ranging from scandals at the Vatican bank to women in the Church to why he carries his own briefcase. But perhaps the comments that revealed most about the type of Church he envisions came in response to a question about gays in the Vatican. ...

Gay California Catholic teacher's firing sparks online petition Posted: 01 Aug 2013 09:42 PM PDT By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Catholic high school teacher said he was fired for marrying his gay partner soon after same-sex matrimony was made legal in California, prompting a Web-based push to see him reinstated. The petition drive in support of English instructor Ken Bencomo on the online petition platform Change.org has gathered over 9,000 signatures from his former students and people as far away as Spain since it was launched earlier this week. The teacher and his partner were among a wave of same-sex couples who married after a U.S. ...

Christian Bale's 'Out of the Furnace' gets new wide release date from Relativity Posted: 01 Aug 2013 06:09 PM PDT By Jeff Sneider LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Relativity Media is giving its awards pony "Out of the Furnace" a wide release on December 6. The distributor initially planned to give Scott Cooper's second feature a platform release on November 27. Christian Bale stars as a blue-collar factory worker who seeks vengeance when his younger brother, played by Casey Affleck, disappears and the local cops can't come up with any answers. ...

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