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Sex abuse victims list 'dirty dozen' potential papal candidatesMarch 8, 2013
Clergy sex abuse victims listed a "dirty dozen" potential papal candidates on Wednesday and urged the Roman Catholic Church to "get serious" about protecting children, helping victims and exposing corruption.
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UK's top cardinal Keith O'Brien resigns after 'inappropriate acts' claimsFebruary 26, 2013
Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric, has resigned with immediate effect in the wake of allegations of inappropriate behaviour, he said in a statement on Monday.
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Bangalore : Church Priest Sentenced to 7 Years Jail for RapeFebruary 22, 2012
Bangalore : A fast-track court in Bangalore has sentenced a church priest from Metagalli, Mysore to 7 years imprisonment for kidnapping and raping a 15-year old girl. The incident happened in 2009.
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US woman accuses Indian priest of sexual abuse July 5, 2009
New York: A 20-year-old woman sued the Catholic diocese of Crookston this week, alleging that in 2004, when she was 15, her parish priest, Reverend Joseph Jeyapaul, sexually abused her in the Blessed Sacrament Church in Greenbush, Minnesota.
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Mangalore Christians issue '10 commandments' to defeat BJP April 29, 2009
Mangalore: Mangalore has been witnessing a lot of violence since the past one year and the most prominent among them was the attack on churches by Bajrang Dal activists who claimed that the attack was carried out to protest against conversions.
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Attack on church in Nagpur District April 20, 2009
Nagpur (Maharashtra): In Savner taluka, a church engaged in conversion of Hindus, was attacked
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Failure of christianity: 100,000 Britons seek 'de-baptism' April 10, 2009
London: More than 100,000 Britons have recently downloaded 'certificates of de-baptism' from the Internet to renounce their Christian faith.
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Missionaries in Goa welcome ban on Sree Rama Sena April 2, 2009
Panaji (Goa): It has been published on the website of ‘Union of Catholic Asian News’ that catholic missionaries have welcomed the ban imposed by the Congress Home Minister Shri. Ravi Naik on a staunch Hindu Organization Sree Rama Sena which had strongly opposed ‘pub’ culture.
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Hindus want public apology from Pope for insulting Hindus March 20, 2009
USA: Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that it was very humiliating to one billion strong Hindus of the world when Pope Benedict referred their God as 'just any god'.
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More Americans Giving up Christianity! March 10, 2009
New York: About 12 per cent of Americans believe in some sort of a higher power but not the personal God who is at the core of monotheistic faiths. Since 1990, a slightly greater share of respondents — 1.2 per cent — said they were part of new religious movements, including Scientology and Wicca.
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Nuns unhappy with convent life: Church study January 31, 2009
Kochi (Kerala): Sathyadeepam weekly, the official organ of the Syro-Malabar Church, has admitted that almost 20 percent of the nuns are feeling mentally insecure or unaccepted in convents.
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In Major Poll, US Religious Identity Appears Very Slippery February 28, 2008
Washington (USA): America has always been very religiously vibrant, said Pew political scientist John Green, but today there are more options, more "things you can move from and to."
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Vatican slows sainthood process!February 19, 2008
UK: The Vatican has issued new rules making the route to sainthood more difficult.
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Pastor to face additional charges in sex case November 11, 2007
Montclair (USA): A married pastor of an Orange County church accused of having sex with a minor from Montclair was hit with additional charges Friday after he again disobeyed a court order to stay away from the teen.
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Over 90% of America's churches remain segregatedOctober 17, 2007
USA: There are many white christian denominations/sects in the USA, especially in the southern and some midwestern states, that will not allow the mixing of whites and blacks in their churches for ideological reasons.
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