Pope Benedict XVI publicly condemned the violence in India during mass on Sunday, an act that was welcomed by India?s Catholic clergies while opposed by Hindu nationalist politicians who accused the Vatican of interfering.
Nearly 1,000 police were deployed to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, said a local official on Monday, after thousands of Christians this past week fled their homes in fear following a string of murders and violence.
The European Baptist Federation?s anti-trafficking group is working on a handbook that will give congregations across Europe ideas on how best to eradicate prostitution.
The world is on the brink of financial meltdown, the head of the International Monetary Fund said Saturday. His bleak warning came as finance ministers tried to calm the frenzy in markets that saw share prices crash by more than 20 percent last week.
President Dmitry Medvedev oversaw the test firing of an intercontinental Topol missile on Sunday and vowed to commission new generation weapons for Russia's armed forces.
European leaders meet Sunday in search of a common response to a spreading financial crisis that has ricocheted across the Atlantic to their shores and to try to preserve the bloc's unity.
Hundreds of terrified Christian families have fled Mosul to escape extremist attacks that have increased despite months of U.S. and Iraqi military operations to secure the northern Iraqi city, political and religious officials said Saturday.
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