Topic: Western Europe
About 1,500 people flocked to a musical about John Paul II's life, including his years as a student under Nazi rule in Poland, on Wednesday in Madrid on the eve of Pope Benedict XVI's arrival in the city.The show, called "No Tengais ...
Thousands of protesters angry over a visit by Pope Benedict XVI for a lavish youth festival took to Madrid's streets Wednesday, and were confronted by Catholic pilgrims who sang "hallelujah" and sat on the ground and prayed.No serious incidents were reported as ...
Spanish gays and lesbians say they will hold a protest "kiss-in" Thursday in front of Pope Benedict XVI when he joins huge Catholic youth festivities in Madrid.The kiss-in is being organised on Facebook by gay groups including Asamblea Transmaricabollo de Sol, which ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A French businessman paid fines Wednesday for two women in Belgium who wore full-face veils in public and said he would take Belgium and France to court over laws banning Muslim niqabs and burqas.Property dealer Rachid Nekkaz has set ...
MADRID (Reuters) - The Vatican has granted priests the right to forgive the sin of abortion when hearing the confessions of hundreds of thousands of young people attending a Roman Catholic youth festival in Spain this week.The termination of pregnancy is a ...
Hundreds of thousands of sweltering pilgrims crammed into central Madrid for a giant open-air mass Tuesday, launching a million-strong, six-day Catholic youth party for Pope Benedict XVI.The rock-festival style celebration of World Youth Day has drawn faithful from 193 nations, according to ...
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims gathered for a giant open-air mass in the heart of Madrid on Tuesday, launching a lavish six-day youth party for Pope Benedict XVI.The faithful will pack into the emblematic central Madrid square of Cibeles for an inaugural ...
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch commission investigating sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests has found an unusually high number of deaths of minors at a church-run hospital in the early 1950s, the public prosecutor said.A statement by the prosecutor's office on Tuesday ...
Catholic pilgrims from across the world flocked to Madrid Monday for a youth festival expected to draw more than a million faithful, with the highlight an open-air mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI.The World Youth Day festival, which runs from Tuesday to ...
Renova, one of Europe's biggest producers of household paper products, has launched toilet paper in the colours of the Vatican flag in honour of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Spain next week.Each pack contains two perfumed rolls of toilet paper, one yellow ...
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