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Austrian Holocaust institute loses key members

AP News yesterday

Key members of Austrian Holocaust Institute abandon project after fight with Jewish community Key members of an Austrian Holocaust research center have quit in a dispute with the city's Jewish community. The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies began provisional operations in ...

Austrian Holocaust institute loses key members

AP News yesterday

Key members of Austrian Holocaust Institute abandon project after fight with Jewish community Key members of an Austrian Holocaust research center have quit in a dispute with the city's Jewish community. The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies began provisional operations in ...

Trials postponed in U.S. Catholic diocese sex cases

Reuters US Online Report Domestic News yesterday

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - A bankrupt U.S. Roman Catholic diocese has agreed to provide long-sought documents to alleged sex abuse victims in exchange for a postponement in the start of trials, an attorney for the plaintiffs said on Friday. The Diocese of ...

Qatar centre spreads moderate Islam, dialogue

Reuters Life! Online Report yesterday

DOHA (Reuters) - An Islamic center set up by U.S.-allied Qatar is trying to improve Islam's image in the West, defend women's rights and promote interfaith dialogue, its director, Muhammad Ahmad, said on Thursday. "The main reason for establishing the Qaradawi Center ...

'Islam not responsible' for Fort Hood massacre: US imam

AFP American Edition yesterday

Islam is "not responsible" for the bloodbath at an army base in Texas where Muslim-American army Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly gunned down 13 people, the prayer leader at the mosque where the officer regularly worshipped said Friday. "We offer our condolences ...

Remote Indian state readies for Dalai Lama visit

AP News yesterday

India's remote northeastern state readies for controversial Dalai Lama visit Buddhist monks and nuns spruced up their monasteries and hung up welcome banners Friday in anticipation of the Dalai Lama's contentious visit to this remote Indian town near the Tibetan frontier. China ...

Indian Sikhs defy advice to pray in Pakistan

AFP South Asian Edition yesterday

Roads were closed, shops shuttered and police on guard in Hasan Abdal, near Pakistan's capital, as about 2,000 Indian Sikh pilgrims defied advice to honour the founder of the faith. Indian authorities urged the faithful to shun the annual pilgrimage to the ...

Paraguayan president hit with 3rd paternity suit

AP News 2 days ago

Paraguay's Roman Catholic bishop-turned-president is hit with 3rd paternity claim A third woman has filed a paternity claim against Paraguay's Roman Catholic bishop-turned- president, her lawyer confirmed Thursday. Hortensia Damiana Moran, 40, a religious activist who worked on President Fernando Lugo's election ...

255 artists to meet pope to revive relations

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

More than 250 artists including Ennio Morricone and Bill Viola will meet Pope Benedict XVI this month to revive the Church's relations with the art world, a Vatican official said Thursday. The November 21 meeting at the Sistine Chapel will be "a ...

India China Journalists

AP News 2 days ago

Monks of the Tawang monastery, the second largest in Asia, hang a banner in preparation of the visit of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama in Tawang, in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. The Indian government refused ...

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