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Riot Police Patrol The Streets Of Lourdes
AND MARK GREAVES IN LONDON RIOT POLICE have been deployed in Lourdes to combat thenight-time excesses of thousands of summer tourists, it was alleged this week. Local gendarmes......
Outrage As Bush Supports Morning-after Pill
BY STAFF REPORTER AMERICAN President George W Bush has said that he supports restricted access to the "morning-after" pill for children, upsetting American pro-lifers who want......
Bosnian 'rave' Cancelled After Protests By Catholics
A TECHNO music festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been banned following protests from the Catholic Church. Police have withdrawn permission for organisers to hold the......
Church Objects To Hijack Of Virgin
SUPPORTERS OF MEXICAN Leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador have been criticised by Church officials for using images of Our Lady of Guadalupe on political......
Pope Sends Envoy To Mission Fair
POPE BENEDICT XVI has appointed Cardinal Crescenzio Sepc as his special envoy to the Asian Mission Congress, which will be held between October 19-22 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.......
Argentine Jesuit Given Top Church Astronomy Post
BY CINDY WOODEN IN ROME AND PATRICIA ZAPOR IN WASHINGTON DC POPE BENEDICT XVI has appointed Argentine Jesuit Fr Jose Funes, 43, to be the new director of the Vatican......
Archbishop Condemns `honour Killing'
THE Archbishop of Lahore ha.s condemned the "honour "Oiling" of a young woman in Brescia. in northern Italy, for refusing an arranged marriage. Mohammed Saleem cut his......