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Australia prepares for Pope's visit
Christian devotees from all over world have gathered to welcome the visit of Pope in Sydney. The festival will start on Tuesday and more than 200,000 pilgrims are expected to attend this event. "Thousands of pilgrims... Chelsea Clinton stumps for her mother in Puerto Rico
"Chelsea Clinton campaigned for her mother Tuesday in Puerto Rico, where the marathon race for the Democratic presidential nomination has brought new importance to a U.S. island that typically has scant say over national affairs.With just over a month to go before Puerto...Japanese monks strut their stuff on the catwalk
The Japanese are known to tolerate ambiguity between high and low culture, between the sacred and profane..."Japanese monks and nuns held a fashion show — replete with rap music and a catwalk — at a major Tokyo...Police evict nuns from Polish convent, arrest monk, mother superior
Just spotted this on News1130...anyone out there with some more info on this? "Police pushed their way into a Polish convent Wednesday and evicted about 65 rebellious nuns - arresting the mother superior and a monk who had occupied the complex with them illegally for two years." Petition Stand with the Burmese Protesters
To Chinese President Hu Jintao and the UN Security Council: We stand alongside the citizens of Burma in their peaceful protests. We urge you to oppose a violent crackdown on the demonstrators, and to support genuine... Burma, a planetary interaction
MYANMAR, URANUS AND NEPTUNE In Burma the bloody repression by the dictatorial military junta, began the same day of the full-moon in Libra. During the...Press Conference - UNITED NATIONS on Burma
Department of Public Information-News and Media Division-New York 5 Sept. 2007 Speaking to...SHORT-TERMS POLITICS
Monks are dying for starvation. Monks who started the protests two weeks ago in Burma, are now held in their monasteries, kept at close watch by the repression of the army. The militia prevent the...Six Arkansas nuns excommunicated for heresy
This is something rarely heard of in the United States, especially in such large numbers..."Six Catholic nuns have been excommunicated for heresy after refusing to give up membership in a Canadian sect whose founder claims to be possessed by the Virgin Mary, the Diocese of... Myanmar : 5,000 monks protest Military Rule
Most likely the most unoffensive group of religious orders in the world, some (National Geographic Historical Accounts) who say the Buddist Monk Order in India found Jesus wandering their land and cared for him till... Nuns join Myanmar protests for the first time!
9/23/2007 Agencies Myanmar: Buddhist nuns joined the growing protests against Myanmar's ruling generals on Sunday, a day after a dramatic appearance by detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi to pray...'Mass hysteria' afflicts girls at Mexican Catholic school
A free Catholic school for girls in Mexico, which is run by a Korean nun, has seen a large sector of its population--600 girls--succumb to so-called "mass hysteria" in the last few months. The school has been under...Mysterious illness at Mexico school may be psychological
Hundreds of girls at a Mexican boarding school run by Catholic nuns have been struck by a mystery illness that authorities say is psychological, raising questions about conditions inside the academy.Headmistress Margie Cheong, a nun from South Korea, said on Friday...Nurses From the Holy Sisters and Nuns: Angels in War
By John E. CareyThe Washington Times The Roman Catholic nuns who went to war (American Civil War 1861-1865) to help out as nurses were the most highly praised and prized of the female attendants. Doctors, Sanitary Commission members and the men themselves generals to privates...Catholics face crisis over retired nuns (AP)
" By RICHARD N. OSTLING, AP Religion Writer Thu Jul 27, 7:20 PM ET With tens of thousands of U.S. nuns over age 70, the Roman Catholic Church is facing a massive financial shortfall for the care of retirees in religious orders — a gap that over the long term dwarfs costs...
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