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• Ex-pope Benedict says "God told me" to resign-report
• NH court rejects new trial in church rape case
• Catholic monastery in Israel attacked by vandals

Ex-pope Benedict says "God told me" to resign-report Posted: 21 Aug 2013 10:08 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Former Pope Benedict has said he resigned after "God told me to" during what he called a "mystical experience", a Catholic news agency reported. Benedict, whose formal title is now Pope Emeritus, announced his shock resignation on February 11 and on February 28 became the first pontiff to step down in 600 years. "God told me to do it," the Zenith agency quoted Benedict as saying to a visitor to the convent in the Vatican gardens where he is living out his retirement in near isolation. ...

NH court rejects new trial in church rape case Posted: 21 Aug 2013 10:05 AM PDT CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire's highest court on Wednesday rejected a new trial for a man convicted of raping and impregnating a 15-year-old member of his church, a case that gained national attention because she said the church's pastor made her apologize to the congregation.

Catholic monastery in Israel attacked by vandals Posted: 21 Aug 2013 05:35 AM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Vandals hurled a firebomb at the outer wall of a Roman Catholic monastery in Israel and daubed anti-Christian graffiti on it, a police spokeswoman said on Wednesday. No damage was caused to the Beit Jimal monastery, near the town of Beit Shemesh, and no one was hurt, the spokeswoman, Luba Samri said. She said the words "revenge" and "gentiles will perish" were painted in Hebrew on the wall, probably late on Tuesday. "All lines of investigation are being looked at, including nationalistic motives," Samri said. ...

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