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- French priest suspected of stealing church sacred vessels
- Pope replaces Dominican ambassador amid sex probe
- Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Israeli religious scholar and political kingmaker, dies at 93
- Law shields churches, leaves pensions unprotected
| French priest suspected of stealing church sacred vessels Posted: 07 Oct 2013 04:28 AM PDT ORLEANS, France (Reuters) - A French Catholic priest has been suspended after being named a suspect in the theft of about 40 valuable chalices and other sacred vessels as well as some parish collection money in churches under his care. Fourteen churches in and around the town of Montoire, west of Orleans in central France, reported the thefts of the vessels, some of them registered as national heritage objects. "We are investigating so as to list all the objects and find out where they have gone," a police spokesman said on Monday. ... |
| Pope replaces Dominican ambassador amid sex probe Posted: 07 Oct 2013 04:04 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has named a new ambassador to the Dominican Republic after the previous one was forcibly removed amid a sex abuse investigation. |
| Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Israeli religious scholar and political kingmaker, dies at 93 Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:46 AM PDT JERUSALEM - Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the religious scholar and spiritual leader of Israel's Sephardic Jews who transformed his downtrodden community of immigrants from North Africa and Arab nations and their descendants into a powerful force in Israeli politics, has died. He was 93. |
| Law shields churches, leaves pensions unprotected Posted: 05 Oct 2013 11:39 AM PDT
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