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January 19, 2012

Mayoral candidate proposes $10,000 vouchers for city students

Otis Rolley, a Democratic challenger to Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, wants to give $10,000 education vouchers to students in the city’s worst-performing middle schools – vouchers that could be used at Baltimore’s Catholic and other nonpublic schools.

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January 19, 2012

Pope entrusts cause of peace to concentration camp martyrs

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI entrusted the cause of world peace to the martyrs of World War II concentration camps, including a German priest executed for his hostility to the Nazi regime.

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January 19, 2012

Vatican hopes postponed event marks end to illicit ordinations in China

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican said it hoped the postponement of an illicit episcopal ordination in the diocese of Hankou would mark the end to all ordinations without papal approval in China.

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January 19, 2012

Poll finds overlap: Many say they’re both ‘pro-choice’ and ‘pro-life’

WASHINGTON – The headline on the introduction to a new report on the generation of people ages 18-29 encapsulates its conclusions as “the peculiar profile of millennials on abortion.”

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January 19, 2012

Kansas man, 75, walks 8,000 miles to show solidarity with the poor

WASHINGTON – Seventy-five-year-old Bob Hentzen, the president and co-founder of the Christian Foundation for Children and Aging, ended his 17-month, 8,000-mile walk across 12 countries to show solidarity with the poor June 6.

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January 19, 2012

Pope to get manga comic treatment in time for World Youth Day

WASHINGTON – Move over, Spider-Man. Here come some new comic-book heroes.

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January 19, 2012

Vatican experts say tomb shows how Christian art grew from pagan Rome

VATICAN CITY – A newly restored third-century family tomb shows the gradual flowering of Christian funerary art as it grew out of ancient Rome’s multireligious and pagan cultures, said members of a Vatican archaeological commission.

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January 19, 2012

Pope calls for reform in Syria, promotes clean energy to protect nature

VATICAN CITY – The civilian unrest ripping through Syria and other Arab countries is a sign that people want a better future, Pope Benedict XVI told Syria’s new ambassador to the Vatican.

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January 19, 2012

Boston Archdiocese opens canonization cause of Opus Dei priest

BRAINTREE, Mass. – The Archdiocese of Boston has opened the canonization cause of an Opus Dei priest, Father Joseph Muzquiz, who established the organization in the United States and worked for many years in the greater Boston area.

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January 19, 2012

Mission trips to Mexico suspended amid perceptions of violence

MEXICO CITY – American Bob Decker leads mission groups through the ramshackle neighborhoods of Ciudad Acuna, where poorly paid factory workers drawn from impoverished pockets of Mexico originally built tiny cardboard dwellings.

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January 19, 2012

North Carolina church cancels Quran reading, plans interfaith dialogue

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A plan to allow for the reading of the Quran from the pulpit during a Mass at St. Peter Church in Charlotte June 26 has been canceled, with an interfaith dialogue planned for October instead.

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January 19, 2012

Rain leads to spike in cholera in Port-au-Prince, Haitian rural areas

WASHINGTON – Three weeks of intermittent heavy rain have led to a spike in the number of cholera cases in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince and in several rural areas where health care workers are struggling to handle the surge. The rain also caused flooding in low-lying areas and mudslides in the hills around the...

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