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• Egypt's Nour Party rejects move against religious parties
• Polish church apologizes for child sex abuse
• Church not helping Peru on pedophilia inquiry into bishop: prosecutor

Egypt's Nour Party rejects move against religious parties Posted: 27 Sep 2013 12:01 PM PDT By Shadia Nasralla CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's second biggest Islamist party, Nour, on Friday rejected proposed changes to the constitution that would outlaw parties founded on religious grounds, and called the move a "sword drawn" against Islamists. The proposal, made during meetings of the constitutional committee this week but not yet formally approved, came days after a Cairo court separately banned the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's dominant Islamist force. ...

Polish church apologizes for child sex abuse Posted: 27 Sep 2013 09:53 AM PDT WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A senior official of Poland's Catholic Church apologized Friday to the victims of pedophile priests, and prosecutors said they have opened a probe into allegations that two Polish priests, including a Vatican envoy, sexually abused boys in the Dominican Republic.

Church not helping Peru on pedophilia inquiry into bishop: prosecutor Posted: 26 Sep 2013 06:19 PM PDT By Mitra Taj LIMA (Reuters) - The Catholic Church has yet to help authorities in Peru who are investigating whether a defrocked bishop sexually abused children before Pope Francis forced him from his post in a poor Andean region, a prosecutor said on Thursday. On September 20, the attorney general's office opened an investigation into Gabino Miranda, until recently the auxiliary bishop of Ayacucho in southern Peru, after a prominent bishop said the Church had kicked Miranda out of the clergy because of suspected pedophilia. ...

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