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Syria army makes 'major advance' in Christian town

Posted: 11 Sep 2013 04:57 PM PDT

A Syrian pro-government soldier aims his rifle as he patrols the streets of Maalula on September 11, 2013Syrian government troops on Wednesday beat back Islamist rebels and advanced into Maalula, a historic Christian town near Damascus, state news agency SANA reported.

Priest gives used car to pope, who wants to drive

Posted: 11 Sep 2013 01:07 PM PDT

In this Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013 picture made available by the Vatican newspaper l'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis, right, speaks with Rev. Renzo Zocca, second from right, and owner of the Renault 4L seen at left, his assistant Luigi Macchioni, and car-body repairer Stefano Veronesi, fourth from right, after he was donated the car by Zocca, at the Vatican. Rev. Zocca, 70, told the Associated Press Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, that he has dedicated his life to helping the needy in the peripheries of Verona, so when he saw that Pope Francis' priority was to reach out to the world's poor and inspire the Catholic leaders to go to slums and peripheries to preach, he decided to donate what he calls his 25-year-old "car of the French farmers" as a symbol of this approach. The pontiff invited Rev. Zocca for a private audience and on that occasion the priest had the car brought to the Vatican. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis now has his own mini popemobile after getting a good deal on a used car that he plans to drive himself.

Alabama city to remember historic church bombing 50 years later

Posted: 11 Sep 2013 12:11 PM PDT

By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - The image of 14-year-old Cynthia Wesley's decapitated body buried in the exploded rubble of a Baptist church here has haunted her brother, Fate Morris, for five decades. "I should have died with her," said Morris, who was 11 when the bomb set off by Ku Klux Klan members killed four young girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963. ...

Dominican cardinal: Vatican will probe ex-envoy

Posted: 11 Sep 2013 09:36 AM PDT

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic's Catholic archbishop has confirmed that the Vatican will investigate the country's recently removed papal envoy over allegations of child sex abuse.

PQ gets backing of civil-servants' union for religion plan

Posted: 11 Sep 2013 09:16 AM PDT

QUEBEC - The Parti Quebecois' controversial charter of values has received the staunch support of an influential backer: a union representing the province's civil servants.

Syria Christian 'made to convert at gunpoint'

Posted: 11 Sep 2013 04:47 AM PDT

The funeral in Damascus on September 10, 2013, of three Christians killed in Maalula at the weekendJihadists who overran Syria's ancient town of Maalula last week disparaged Christians as "Crusaders" and forced at least one person to convert to Islam at gunpoint, say residents who fled the town.

Religious minorities face fight-or-flight choice as Quebec values charter released

Posted: 11 Sep 2013 01:07 AM PDT

MONTREAL - The choices for Quebec's observant religious minorities now seem to boil down to fight or flight with the release of details of Quebec's proposed charter of values.

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