Parents in northern Mexico on Sunday began to bury the children who died in a horrific day-care fire as Mexican authorities raised the death toll from the blaze to 41.
Frantic parents rammed cars into burning day care
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Hookers for Jesus founder, Christian rocker wed in Vegas
She was a call girl working the streets of Sin City. He’s a guitarist in a heavy metal band.
Doctor who performed abortions shot to death
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Torture prompts soul-searching among some Christians
The men first ordered Ken Cordier to strip naked. They then forced him face-down to the ground and pinned his arms and legs. One of them grabbed a fan belt from a truck and began flogging Cordier
Pope visits Jerusalem’s Old City
Pope Benedict XVI will complete his eight-day tour of the Holy Land on Friday with a busy morning in Jerusalem’s Old City, including meeting the patriarchs of the Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic churches. In between sessions with the patriarchs, Benedict will tour and pray at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, believed to be located on the site where Jesus was crucified and buried
Pope celebrates Mass for 40,000 near Nazareth
Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass for about 40,000 parishioners Thursday at the Mount of the Transfiguration, outside the city of Nazareth. Nearing the end of his eight-day tour of the Middle East, the pope also attended a reception given by the mayor of Nazareth — the city described in the Bible as the boyhood home of Jesus — and was to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
‘Angels & Demons’ actors: What controversy?
Three years ago, the film based on Dan Brown’s novel "The Da Vinci Code" was the focus of protest and controversy, with a Vatican archbishop calling for a boycott and Catholics at many levels refuting plot points. But when it comes to the new film based on a Brown novel, “Angels & Demons,” star Tom Hanks says talk of controversy is much ado about nothing
Pope visits Jerusalem’s holiest sites
Pope Benedict XVI visited Jerusalem’s holiest sites Tuesday, touring areas sacred to Muslims, Jews and Christians and stressing the common threads of the three faiths. After visiting the Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine, the pontiff prayed at the Old City’s Western Wall. Also known as the Wailing Wall, it was once part of Judaism’s Second Temple, which was destroyed.
‘Angels & Demons’ fails to draw Vatican’s ire
If director Ron Howard hopes religious controversy will help sell tickets to "Angels & Demons" the way it boosted his "Da Vinci Code," the Catholic Church is not playing along with his script. Howard, who premiered the follow-up in Rome, Italy, this week, said there was “residual antagonism from ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ ” but Vatican officials ignored the movie by not responding to suggestions that the church was offended.
Panama City Tries to Exorcise its Red Devils
Barreling down Balboa Avenue, belching diesel fumes as they bully fancy European sports cars out of the way, the second-hand American school buses that pass for Panama City’s public transportation system seem like dinosaurs that took a wrong exit off the time-space continuum. Known as “red devils,” these graffiti-covered relics offer one of the few relics of Panama City’s origins.