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## Valentine's panty protest hits Hindu extremists

AFP - Wed Feb 11, 10:42 PM ET

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Nisha Susan is founder of the "Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women" -- a group she set up as a provocative response to a recent attack by Hindu extremists on young women drinking in a bar in southern India.

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- Austria: Priests criticize pope's bishop pick AP - Wed Feb 11, 5:04 PM ET

  VIENNA - A group of Austrian priests has vehemently criticized Pope Benedict XVI's decision to promote an ultraconservative pastor who suggested Hurricane Katrina was provoked by sin in New Orleans, the group's head said Wednesday.

- Ice Church in Swedish Lappland offers white winterland wedding AFP - Wed Feb 11, 12:00 PM ET

  JUKKASJAERVI, Sweden (AFP) - Shivering more from excitement than cold, a bride clad in white silk and fur all but melts into the snowy background as she and her groom become one of around 150 couples to tie the knot at Sweden's Ice Church this year.

- Religion news in brief AP - Wed Feb 11, 11:56 AM ET

  NEW YORK - Four Roman Catholic schools in Brooklyn that are in danger of closing due to declining enrollment might instead be converted into publicly funded charter schools under an unusual church-state partnership.

- Obama treads fine line on church, state AP - Wed Feb 11, 11:55 AM ET

  President Barack Obama, signaling early in his administration that religion belongs in the public discourse, has promised to open a big tent to voices from across the spectrum of belief without crossing boundaries separating church and state.

- Poster looted by Nazis to be given to Jewish heir AP - Tue Feb 10, 12:06 PM ET

  BERLIN - A German court ruled Tuesday that a Jewish man from Florida is the rightful owner of a rare poster the Gestapo seized from his father in 1938.

- UK diplomat arrested over alleged tirade at Israel AP - Tue Feb 10, 12:04 PM ET

  LONDON - A senior British diplomat has been arrested after he allegedly launched an abusive tirade against Israel and Judaism at a London gym, police said Tuesday.

- Archaeologists search for unbaptized babies' grave AP - Tue Feb 10, 12:04 PM ET

  DUBLIN - Archaeologists began searching Tuesday for unmarked mass graves containing hundreds of unbaptized babies and infants buried by the Catholic Church on the edge of a Belfast cemetery.

- Tenn. church shooter pleads guilty, gets life AP - Mon Feb 9, 6:32 PM ET

  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - An out-of-work truck driver smiled Monday as he pleaded guilty to killing two people and wounding six others at a Tennessee church last summer because he considered the liberal church "a den of un-American vipers."

- Jewish group optimistic about Vatican-Jewish ties AP - Mon Feb 9, 12:01 PM ET

  VATICAN CITY - Representatives of the World Jewish Congress say they are optimistic about Vatican-Jewish ties after meeting with top Vatican officials following a dispute over a Holocaust-denying bishop.

- For the first time, Christians in Qatar worship in church The Christian Science Monitor - Mon Feb 9, 3:00 AM ET

  DOHA, Qatar - When the Rev. Tomasito Veneracion arrived in this Muslim nation seven years ago, his Roman Catholic parishioners prayed in small groups scattered in apartments, schools, and one tiny makeshift chapel. At Easter, Indian Catholics gathered in one place, Filipinos in another, Arabs in yet another.

- Holocaust-denier removed from Argentine seminary Reuters - Sun Feb 8, 9:38 PM ET

  BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An ultra-traditionalist Roman Catholic bishop who has drawn sharp criticism from the Vatican and Jewish groups for denying the extent of the Holocaust was removed as the head of an Argentine seminary, a Catholic Church official said on Sunday.

- Buddhism on TV should be approved: Cambodian PM AFP - Sun Feb 8, 7:56 PM ET

  PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Cambodian premier Hun Sen on Sunday called for television shows related to Buddhism to be approved by clergy after the country's first rock opera was deemed insulting to the religion.

- German leader calls pope about Holocaust denier AP - Sun Feb 8, 6:54 PM ET

  BERLIN - The German chancellor called the pope Sunday, days after she demanded he clarify the Vatican's stance on the Holocaust after it lifted the excommunication of a bishop who denies six million Jews were killed.

- Pope reaffirms life amid heated right-to-die case AP - Sat Feb 7, 1:34 PM ET

  ROME - Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday that all human life must be protected, especially that of the weak and suffering, making a last-minute intervention in a right-to-die case that has convulsed Italy.

- U.S. Jewish leader sees "pandemic of anti-Semitism" Reuters - Fri Feb 6, 5:52 PM ET

  PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - Israel's recent war in Gaza has unleashed the worst outbreaks of anti-Semitism in decades, the U.S. head of the Anti-Defamation League said on Friday.

- Atheists welcome in Obama's big church AFP - Fri Feb 6, 3:47 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - America's perennial culture wars are being fought on a new front as President Barack Obama reaches out to adherents of all religious faiths -- and to atheists too.

- Saudi Arabia says only mosques allowed AP - Fri Feb 6, 12:54 PM ET

  GENEVA - A Saudi Arabian official says mosques can be the only places of worship in his country, rejecting pressure to change heavy restrictions on religious besides Islam.

- Christians post faith messages on London buses AP - Fri Feb 6, 12:16 PM ET

  LONDON - Christians are soldiering on in the battle over God's existence by putting ads on London's famous red buses urging people to have faith.

- USA The Christian Science Monitor - Fri Feb 6, 3:00 AM ET

  At the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, President Obama said he is ordering an expansion and refocusing of the office of faith-based initiatives started under former President George W. Bush. Obama said such initiatives will not blur the lines between church and state nor show any favoritism.

- Holocaust denial: Vatican shifts into damage control The Christian Science Monitor - Fri Feb 6, 3:00 AM ET

  Munich, Germany - After unprecedented outcry in Pope Benedict XVI's home country of Germany by Roman Catholic and Jewish leaders worldwide, the Vatican this week clarified efforts to reconcile with an ultra-right-wing set of bishops excommunicated in 1988, one of whom denies that the Holocaust, or the Shoah, took the lives of 6 million Jews during Nazi rule here in World War II.

- Clinton reaching out to Muslims with Indonesia visit AFP - Thu Feb 5, 6:09 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - New US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has chosen to visit Indonesia on her first overseas trip because she wants to "reach out" to the Muslim world, a spokesman said Thursday.

- Anglicans seek extended moratorium on gay bishops AP - Thu Feb 5, 4:30 PM ET

  NEW YORK - Anglican leaders urged their churches Thursday to maintain a 5-year-old moratorium on consecrating another openly gay bishop and developing prayers for same-sex unions, as they try to restore unity in their fractured fellowship.

- British Christians launch pro-God ads after atheist blitz AFP - Thu Feb 5, 3:09 PM ET

  LONDON (AFP) - A British Christian group is to run a pro-God poster campaign on the side of London buses, to counter a recent atheist advertising blitz which claimed there was no deity, it said Thursday.

- White House: First couple still looking for church AP - Thu Feb 5, 3:01 PM ET

  WASHINGTON - The White House says Michelle and Barack Obama have visited several churches and will see a few more, but haven't decided on a place to worship.

- Electrical system eyed in Chicago cathedral fire AP - Thu Feb 5, 3:46 PM ET

  CHICAGO - An electrical problem might have sparked a blaze that tore holes in the roof of Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral, fire officials said Thursday.

- Obama says faith shouldn't be used to divide AP - Thu Feb 5, 9:53 AM ET

  WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is telling the National Prayer Breakfast that even though faith too often has been used "as a tool to divide us from one another," there is no religion in the world that is based on hatred.

- Mormon church in Nevada town destroyed by fire AP - Wed Feb 4, 6:27 PM ET

  LAS VEGAS - Fire has destroyed a Mormon church in a small Nevada farming town outside Las Vegas.

- Vatican demands Holocaust denier publicly recant Reuters - Wed Feb 4, 2:52 PM ET

  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Wednesday ordered a traditionalist bishop who denies the Holocaust to publicly recant his views if he wants to serve as a prelate in the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican said Pope Benedict was not aware of Bishop Richard Williamson's denial of the Holocaust when the pontiff lifted excommunications on him and three other traditionalist bishops last month.

- Catholic order says founder committed misconduct AP - Wed Feb 4, 2:51 PM ET

  VATICAN CITY - A staunchly conservative religious order favored by Pope John Paul II said Wednesday that there had been unspecified misconduct by its founder.

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