Ultra-Orthodox Jews were staging mass protests against a ruling from Israel's Supreme Court. The court had ordered a jail term for parents who kept their daughters from an integrated school.
Pope Benedict XVI called on Saturday for dialogue between Christians and people of other faiths on the second day of his landmark visit to Cyprus, an island divided between Christian and Muslim communities. The pontiff celebrated mass in the small church of the Holy Cross, in the buffer-zone of Nicosia, Cyprus' capital.
Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in Cyprus on a three-day 'pilgrimage,' hoping for harmony between the rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities on the divided eastern Mediterranean island. This is the pontiff's first trip to a mainly Orthodox country and the first ever papal visit to Cyprus.
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Sister Mary David Olheiser and Sister Helenette Baltes professed their vows together in 1936. Today, a drop in women joining religious orders and the advancing age of their communities is bringing them together again.
It's the cup final where both teams claim to have God on their side. The Clericus Cup is the Vatican's own football championship, and this weekend has seen the final take place in the shadow of St Peter's with two teams of priests struggling to reconcile heated competition with the virtues of compassion and fairness.
Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical, was reburied by Polish priests as a hero on Saturday.
Orthodox Haredi Jews in Israel have started publishing special religious comics where the heroes are rabbis and there's no violence at all and they're proving a big hit with youngsters.
Pakistani students vented their anger over "sacrilegious" caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed on the Internet. A Facebook user organised an "Everyone Draw Mohammed Day" competition to promote "freedom of expression", but sparked a major backlash in the conservative Muslim country of 170 million.
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