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BRASILIA (Reuters) — Outraged Indian leaders in Brazil said this week they were offended by Pope Benedict’s “arrogant and disrespectful” comments that the Roman Catholic Church had purified them and a revival of their religions would be a backward st...

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Tony Blair’s office yesterday dismissed a report that he will declare himself a Roman Catholic after he leaves office next month.“This story seems to circulate fairly regularly,” said a spokesman in Blair’s office, speaki...

TODAY St. James Church, Sandys. Flea market 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the church. Further information 234-2462. May 20 Emmanuel Baptist Church, Dundonald St. 75th anniversary services 11 a.m. Speaker: Pastor George Crowley, Sr. 4 p.m. Former Emmanuel pa...

SPOKANE, Washington (AP) — In Roman Catholic parishes around Spokane these days, sermons on the teachings of Jesus are mixed with urgent pleas for money to pay people who were sexually abused by clergy decades ago.Priests sometimes evoke the parable ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — A US federal appeals court dismissed a case on Monday in which a Las Vegas attorney argued his Mormon religion should exempt him from Social Security taxes.“I don’t believe in it, I don’t like it, I think it is Satanic,” Jon...

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI accused the media of promoting sexual immorality as he canonised Brazil’s first native-born saint Friday before hundreds of thousands of faithful and a sea of flags from the world’s largest Catholic nation.H...

CAMARILLO, California (AP) — A man who retired after 32 years as an Episcopal priest in Massachusetts was ordained as the first married priest in the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese.The Rev. Bill Lowe was ordained Sunday by Cardinal Roger Maho...

CHICAGO (Reuters) — An African archbishop’s defiant intervention in the US Episcopal Church has sent new shock waves through a global Anglican church already badly divided and facing possible schism over gay issues.Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria...

TOMORROW Diocesean Guilds Awards tea, St. Paul’s Christian Education Centre, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission: $5. Further information: Mrs. Mildred Hill 238-1166. Vernon Temple AME Church Mother’s Day services: 7 a.m. Preacher Sis. Georgette Godwin. 11 a...

MUMBAI (Reuters) — Hindu hardliners attacked two Christian missionaries in public in western India on Tuesday, the latest violence against priests accused by right-wing groups of trying to convert lower-caste Hindus to Christianity.Indian TV channels...