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CHRISTMAS IS NOT A FAIRY TALE FOR KIDS: POPE
Pope Benedict XVI, has reminded Christians that
Christmas was much more than the season of Santa Claus
and sugar plums and it was also God's answer to
mankind's yearning for peace. He said Bethlehem: "is a
city-symbol of peace in the Holy Land in the whole world
and that it does not represent an achieved and stable
peace, but rather a peace that is laboriously sought and
awaited".
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ORAL ROBERTS GOES HOME AT 91
California (NYT) Dec 22: Oral Roberts, the
Pentecostal evangelist whose televised faith-healing
ministry attracted millions of followers worldwide and
made him one of the most recognizable and controversial
religious leaders of the 20th century, died Tuesday in
Newport Beach, Calif. He was 91. The cause was
complications of pneumonia, said Melany Ethridge, a
spokeswoman for Mr. Roberts. He died at a hospital in
Newport Beach, where he lived.
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WOMAN ASSAULTS THE POPE ON CHRISTMAS DAY
Vatican: A woman jumped a barrier at the
start of Christmas Eve Mass at St. Peter's Basilica and
knocked down the pope, briefly disrupting ceremonies.
Screams erupted from onlooking worshippers when the
woman ran toward Pope Benedict XVI and grabbed onto his
vestments as he walked down the main aisle of the
church, video footage showed.
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ANGLIAN PRIEST ASKS THE POOR TO SHOPLIFT
Wales News, Dec 23, 2009 : Is it ever OK
to steal? After parish priest Tim Jones said the poor
should steal from major stores we asked clergymen,
academics and politicians whether extreme poverty can
ever justify theft.
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TWO MORE IRISH BISHOPS QUIT OVER CHILD ABUSE SCANDAL
DUBLIN (AFP) - Two more bishops said on
Friday they were offering their resignation to Pope
Benedict XVI in the wake of a child sex abuse scandal
that has shaken Ireland. Auxiliary Bishops of Dublin
Eamonn Walsh and Raymond Field said in a statement they
had informed the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin,
on Christmas Eve Thursday of their intention to quit.
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93% BRITONS SKIPPED CHURCH ON CHRISTMAS
London: A new survey done before Christmas
had revealed that almost 93% of Britons would have been
skipping church on Christmas Day. They would either be
spending Christmas eating turkey, drinking champagne or
opening presents - but will not attend church. The study
by Opinion Matters said only 11% had the intention of
attending Midnight Mass last night on Christmas Eve,
while 86% said they sent Christmas cards.
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GFA MISSIONARIES WORKING WITH FAMINE VICTIMS IN
MYANMAR
CARROLLTON, Texas, Dec. 16 -- A natural
phenomenon is causing a plague of rats in Myanmar,
leading to starvation in the country's poverty-stricken
Chin state and hampering the recovery from Cyclone
Nargis in the Irrawaddy Delta area. The heart-wrenching
crisis is rooted in what the Asian people called the
mautam. Mau is the Burmese word for bamboo, and tam
means famine. About every 50 years a certain species of
bamboo plants produces a bloom that, when eaten by the
rats, increases their fertility and causes an explosion
in the rat population. The latest mautam began in 2006.
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NEW VIOLENCE FLARES IN IRAQ, WITH CHRISTIANS AND
SHIITES AS TARGETS
BAGHDAD (NYT): As Muslims in Iraq observe
the 10-day holiday of Muharram, and Christians warily
prepare for a subdued Christmas, episodes of violence
erupted around the country on Wednesday, some of them
aimed at worshipers of each faith. There were four
separate bomb attacks in Baghdad on Shiite pilgrims
marching toward Karbala in observance of Muharram, and a
fifth attack on people giving food and drinks to the
marchers.
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US MISSIONARY CROSSES OVER INTO N. KOREA
SEOUL, South Korea (AP): An American
Christian missionary slipped into isolated North Korea
on Christmas Day, shouting that he brought God's love
and carrying a letter urging leader Kim Jong Il to step
down and free all political prisoners, an activist said
Saturday. Robert Park, 28, crossed a poorly guarded
stretch of the frozen Tumen River that separates North
Korea from China, according to a member of the
Seoul-based group Pax Koreana, which promotes human
rights in the North. Two other activists apparently
watched and filmed the entry.
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SWEDISH FAMILY PERSECUTED FOR HOMESCHOOLING
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PURCELLVILLE, VA, Dec. 22 /Christian Newswire/ --
Christer and Annie Johansson, a Christian
homeschooling family, are in the unimaginable position
of permanently losing custody of their only child,
seven-year-old Dominic Johansson, simply because they
homeschool.
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WORLD VISION ENDS GLOBAL 'SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS' TOUR
WITH FINAL STOP IN AFRICA
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Dec. 14 -- After
traveling more than 22,000 miles through five countries
over the past five weeks, World Vision's "Spirit of
Christmas" tour team ends its worldwide journey with a
final stop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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EGYPT'S COPTIC CHRISTIANS BATTLE FOR ID CARDS
BBC News, Cairo: In the grounds of one of the
city's oldest Christian churches, Girgis Gabriel Girgis
is tattooing a baby girl. She is very young, only about
three years old, and branding the blue cross onto the
girl's inside wrist brings a piercing shrill scream.
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PAK'S GOJRA CHRISTIANS CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS IN FEAR
GOJRA: No Christmas decorations brighten the
tent camp sheltering Christians left homeless by the
worst violence against minorities in Pakistan this year.
Instead, there is a pervasive sense of fear. The
Christians have received cell phone text messages
warning them to expect a “special Christmas present”,
they said, and are terrified of their tents being
torched or their church services being bombed.
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COPTIC CHRISTIANS IN NY DEMAND END TO PERSECUTION IN
EGYPT
NEW YORK, Dec. 12 -- The Egyptian government
facilitates attacks against Coptic Christians directly
by destroying church properties, unlawfully detaining,
raping and torturing converts to Christianity and
failing to prosecute the Islamic extremists who attack
Coptic Christians.
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