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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:51:11 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>New Catholic church in United Arab Emirates</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:29:37 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Vatican representative Cardinal Fernando Filoni will open a new Catholic church in Ras Al Khaimah, in the United Arab Emirates on Friday. The Vatican’s Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, will consecrate the 5,000 square metre St Anthony of Padua Church in the Al Jazira Al Hamra district, about 25 km from the city. Other officials who will attend the event include Archbishop Petar Rajic, Apostolic Nuncio to the Arabian Peninsula and Bishop Paul Hinder, Vicar Apostolic of Southern Arabia.]]></description>
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			<title>Italy: The Children&#039;s Train</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:00:21 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[About 450 children of different nationalities, with their teachers, family members and volunteers, are preparing to set off on a special journey through Italy, organised by the Italian Railway System and the Vatican. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, and Mr Mauro Moretti, delegate administrator of the Italian Railway System explained that their 'Journey Through Beauty' will start from Milan on 23 June and make two stops, in Bologna and Florence, before]]></description>
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			<title>Holy Land: Soldiers detain eight year-old boy</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:40:21 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The soldiers then sat the boy on the pavement behind the gate as they continued to question him. More than an hour after they had detained him, the soldiers released him into the custody of the Palestinian Authority (PA) through Checkpoint 56. During the whole time that they held the boy, he did not have a parent, guardian, lawyer, or any sympathetic adult with him.
CPTers asked the soldiers why the boy had been taken and if he was going to be released. The soldiers said that they had taken the boy, because he had thrown stones at the soldiers]]></description>
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			<title>Cardinal Sandri appeals against &#039;vortex of violence&#039; in land of Christ&#039;s birth</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:21:46 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[..."When one thinks of the vortex of violence - as unceasing as it is irrational - which has struck our brothers and sisters in Syria and Iraq, as well as of the tension threatening in the Holy Land, in Egypt, and in other places in the Middle East, one cannot avoid the fully paradoxical nature, from a human point of view, of the Gospel’s command. It is so demanding: “If you love those who love you, what merit do you have?” I think of the understandable temptation for Christians to combat adversity with methods other than those of humble trust in Divine Providence,]]></description>
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			<title>Exchange of honours between Constantinian Order and Colombia</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:10:48 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A special investiture ceremony took place in London on 7 June to mark the formal exchange of honours between the Constantinian Order and Colombia. The current Grand Master of the Constantinian Order, HRH The Duke of Castro, presented the Grand Cross with Gold Star to the Colombian Head of State, HE Mr Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. This award was granted to President Santos for his ‘significant and longstanding contribution to peace and reconciliation in Colombia]]></description>
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			<title>Pope Francis receives Archbishop of Canterbury in Rome</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:37:15 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[On Friday morning in the Vatican, Pope Francis received the Primate of all England and head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, England, with the same words that Paul VI greeted his predecessor, Michael Ramsey, during his historic visit to the Vatican in 1966: “Your steps have not brought you to a foreign dwelling ... we are pleased to open the doors to you, and with the doors, our heart, pleased and honoured as we are ... to welcome you ‘not as a guest or a stranger, but as a fellow citizen of the Saints and the Family of God’.”]]></description>
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			<title>Nigeria: Four churches burned by Boko Haram</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:52:10 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Four churches were burned in an attack probably committed by members of the jihadist group Boko Haram in Borno State, one of the three northern states of Nigeria where a state of emergency has been imposed . A group of armed men with improvised explosive devices and petrol bombs attacked the Hwa'a, Kunde, Gathahure and Gjigga communities on Gwoza Hills, burning the four churches, raiding and looting cattle and grain reserves belonging to the population. "Unfortunately I do not have precise information]]></description>
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			<title>Pope&#039;s letter to David Cameron published on eve of G8</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:34:42 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Yesterday a letter from the Holy Father to Prime Minister David Cameron was made public concerning the British presidency of the G8  and the upcoming meeting of the G8 scheduled to take place in Northern Ireland on 17 and 18 June, with the theme of 'A G8 Meeting that Goes Back to First Principles'. In the letter, the Holy Father emphasized that, for the theme “to attain its broadest and deepest resonance, it is necessary to ensure that all political and economic activity, whether national or international,” makes reference to humanity.]]></description>
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			<title>Syria: Christians living in siege conditions</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:09:02 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A graphic account of the deepening human suffering and violence in Syria has come from a priest ministering to people in one of the areas worst affected by the conflict. In a report describing the devastated city of Homs and the surrounding area, the priest details his desperate struggle to provide basic food, shelter and medicine to more than 30,000 people fleeing violence amid ongoing bomb blasts and other violence. The priest, who cannot be named for security reasons, explains how the people are being helped at a centre funded by Aid to the Church in Need,]]></description>
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			<title>Rome: Pope Francis blesses thousands of Harley-Davidson bikers</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:49:19 -0500</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Thousands of leather-clad bikers from around the world, some sporting 'Papa Francesco' flags, paraded through Rome on Sunday to receive a special blessing from Pope Francis, marking the 110th anniversary of the manufacturer Harley-Davidson. Earlier they had driven around the countryside, circling Lake Albano before arriving in Rome and parading past the Colosseum and other historic landmarks. Their roaring engines nearly drowned out the Our Father that accompanied the Pope as he came through the crowds]]></description>
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