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Polish exports of meat for Jews, Muslims in limbo By VANESSA GERA | Associated Press – 6 hrs ago WARSAW, Poland (AP) — For some, it was a barbaric way to treat animals. For others, it was great business. Until January, slaughterhouses across Poland — a deeply Catholic nation — were the...

The End of a Catholic Moment By ROSS DOUTHAT - THE NEW YORK TIMES - February 16, 2013 THE last time the Chair of St. Peter stood vacant, during Pope John Paul II’s funeral in 2005, the Roman Catholic Church enjoyed a wave of unusually favorable coverage from the American press. The...

A 31-year-old Indian woman died in Ireland from blood poisoning after doctors allegedly refused to perform an abortion stating "this is a Catholic country". Irish authorities have launched a probe into the death of Savita Halappanavar, a dentist, who was 17 weeks pregnant and suffering a...

I meant to put this up on the 28th of Novemember but sadly forgot! icecreammunda But better late than never! http://www.catholicnews.org.uk/Home/News-Releases/Guru-Nanak-Jayanti Here is a link to the PDF produced by the Vatican for Sikhs worldwide to mark Guru Nanak's birth: Vatican...

Source: NBC World News, Karen Lema, Reuters MANILA, Philippines -- Philippine President Benigno Aquino is squaring off against his country's powerful Catholic church in a bid to give people free access to the means to limit the size of their families. The predominately Catholic country has...

Gotta pay to pray: Germany’s Catholic bishops call on faithful to hand over tax By Juergen Baetz, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - September 28, 2012 A woman sits Thursday on a bench in the Catholic cathedral of Frankfurt, Germany. The country’s 24 million Catholics have been told that, if they...

India: Catholic Church Urges Catholics To Have More Children By NIRMALA GEORGE 10/11/11 07:25 AM ET NEW DELHI -- Worried about its dwindling numbers, the Roman Catholic church in southern India is exhorting its flock to have more children, with some parishes offering free...

By Kim Lawton Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly NEW YORK (RNS) Pope John Paul II will move one step closer to sainthood when he is beatified during an elaborate Vatican ceremony on Sunday (May 1). While the Roman Catholic Church has held up heroes, patrons, intercessors and spiritual companions for...

Catholic Nun Forcibly Removed From Plane for Wearing Muslim Garb. Jalees Rehman, M.D.Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago April 5, 2011 DAYTON, OH - Sister Cora-Ann, a Catholic nun from the Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Dayton, Ohio got the surprise of her life yesterday...

Catholic church gives blessing to iPhone app Pope Benedict XVI has said Catholics should use digital technologies responsibly. The Catholic Church has approved an iPhone app that helps guide worshippers through confession. The Confession program has gone on sale through iTunes for £1.19...

By Clodagh Sheehy Wednesday September 22 2010 MUSLIM girls should not wear a full veil in Catholic secondary schools, new guidelines have recommended. While no pupil or staff member should be prevented from wearing a religious symbol or garment, such as a turban for Sikh boys or a hijab...

If doubts remained about the relationship between the Catholic Church's spectacular failure to address the clerical child sex abuse crisis and the church's glaring system of gender apartheid, the Vatican put them to rest in July. Engendering a firestorm of criticism, their new canonical...

Irish Catholic Church Covered Up Decades Of Child Abuse, Report Says DUBLIN — Roman Catholic Church leaders in Dublin spent decades sheltering child-abusing priests from the law and most fellow...

Catholic Priest Fights Stripper for Daughter's Custody Florida parish is hit again with another salacious scandal Posted: 2009-10-10 12:01:59 Filed Under: Latino News in English MIAMI - The scandals for the Catholic Church in Florida seem to have no end. A priest who served in the same...

The Catholic Church (and Pope Benedict XVI) were presented with a public relations powder keg last March when news broke that a nine-year-old Brazilian girl underwent an abortion after she'd been raped and impregnated with twins by her stepfather. Catholics from Sao Paolo to Paris were...

Hello. I wanted to respectfully ask why Sikhs and Catholics aren't allowed to marry. I'm confused because I thought Sikhs believe that people are not defined by their religion ("There is no Muslim. There is no Hindu.") and they strive to protect people who are discriminated against because of...

London, Aug.20 : The parents of a Sikh girl have said that they are ready to convert her to Roman Catholicism to ensure her admission to a school of their choice. More...

The parents of a Sikh girl say they will convert her to Catholicism in order to get her into the best school in the area. More...

London, Aug.20 (ANI): The parents of a Sikh girl have said that they are ready to convert her to Roman Catholicism to ensure her admission to a school of their choice. According to report in the Daily Mail, Baljit and Bal Singh have said that they will not hesitate to change their four-year-old...

London, Aug 20 (IANS) A Sikh couple in a village in Britain is contemplating converting their four-year-old daughter as a Roman Catholic in order to get her admission to the school of their choice. More...