AP – EDITOR’S NOTE — They were “our girls” — the children of a Haitian orphanage, taken to heart by a Tennessee church. But then an earthquake struck, and the congregation sprang to action. The second of two parts.
Reuters – A blackout affecting much of Chile is due to a problem with a 500 kilowatt transformer, Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter told local media on Sunday.
AP – With the West locked in conflicts across the Muslim world, why would anyone throw fuel on the fire?
AP – With the West locked in conflicts across the Muslim world, why would anyone throw fuel on the fire?
Reuters – Pope Benedict told Rome’s Lutheran congregation on Sunday that Protestants and Roman Catholics should be thankful for all the unity achieved among Christians rather than complain about the slow pace of dialogue.
AP – In the long and painful debate over whether he should have done more to halt the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators in World War II, Pope Pius XII has an unusual defender.
AP – The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI, who broke his wrist last summer during his Alpine vacation, is passing up invitations to return to the mountains so he can spend his holiday near Rome.
AFP – A complete Tibetan Buddhist shrine room, including a silver Buddha, gem-encrusted adornments and silk scroll paintings, goes on display for the first time in Washington on Saturday.
Reuters – Sotheby’s will auction a painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot worth around $1.5 million after it was returned to the heirs of the original owners, Jewish bankers forced to flee Europe in World War Two.
The Christian Science Monitor – An atheist activist from Sacramento failed to convince a federal court in California that references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance and on US currency are unconstitutional endorsements of religion.
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