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VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI told reporters en route to Cyprus on Friday (June 4) that the murder of an Italian-born bishop in Turkey would not “darken” Catholic dialogue with Muslims. Bishop Luigi Padovese, the bishop of Anatolia and the Vatican’s representative to eastern Turkey, had been planning to meet Benedict in Cyprus, but…

Head of Turkish bishops conference stabbed to death GENEVA (RNS/ENInews) The Italian-born president of the Catholic bishops’ conference in Turkey, Bishop Luigi Padovese, was found stabbed to death in the southern Turkish city of Iskenderun on Thursday (June 3). “This is horrible news that left us deeply shocked,” Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi said Thursday,…

(RNS) Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has forcefully defended her church’s embrace of gays and lesbians, and firmly rejected efforts to centralize power or police uniformity in the Anglican Communion. Anglicans should be led by local communities rather than powerful clerics, Jefferts Schori argued in a Wednesday (June 2) letter to her church’s 2…

SAO PAULO – At least 1 million evangelical Christians rallied in Sao Paulo on Thursday for the annual “March for Jesus,” an event that unites the faithful from hundreds of Protestant churches in the world’s largest Roman Catholic country. Now in its 18th year, the march is organized by the Reborn in Christ Church, whose…
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