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'I am a happy and proud gay priest': Cleric rocks Vatican with disclosure, gets fired
A gay monsignor rocked the Vatican on Saturday, the eve of a major meeting of the world's Catholic bishops, when newspaper articles came out in Italy and Poland announcing his declaration of his homosexuality.
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'God's dream for creation' is union of man and woman, Pope Francis says in Synod
Pope Francis emphasised that the union between a man and a woman is "God's dream for his beloved creation," the foundation of God's design for the family.
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'Daddy, he shot her': Oregon massacre as told by one survivor, a pastor's daughter
Numbed and stunned by the horror of it all for a day or two, a Christian pastor and the father of one of the survivors of last Thursday's massacre in Oregon finally found the words to recall what his daughter vividly told him on the details of what happened on the day evil in its purest form visited the school where his daughter was studying.
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President Obama criticised for failure to condemn killing of 9 Christians in Oregon
US President Obama is drawing scathing criticism for his failure to condemn the killing of nine Christians who were mercilessly gunned down by a mentally disturbed white assailant who barged into Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, on Thursday morning with guns blazing.
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Army vet attacks Oregon gunman in effort to save classmates but gets shot 7 times
In many tragedies, someone almost always stands out as a hero for showing courage and selfless sacrifice to fellowmen. In last Thursday's massacre at the Umpqua Community College (UCC) in Roseburg, Oregon, one student—30-year-old Army veteran Chris Mintz—displayed humankind's finest qualities when he tried to save his classmates when a gunman suddenly entered a classroom and started shooting.
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Kim Davis denies Vatican account of her meeting with Pope, says she was invited
Disturbed by statements coming from the Vatican, gay marriage nemesis Kim Davis would like to set the records straight that it was the Vatican that extended an "unsolicited invitation" for her to hold a "private meeting" with Pope Francis at the Vatican embassy in Washington D.C. last Sept. 24.
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'Prayers are not enough,' Obama says after Oregon gunman targeting Christians kills 9
An angry President Barack Obama appeared in the White House briefing room on Thursday to say that "prayers are not enough" in addressing another horrific mass murder in a US campus, this time in Oregon where a gunman specifically targeting Christians opened fire, killing nine people and wounding seven others before police shot him to death.
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Israel gives world leaders a dose of their own 'deafening silence' over Iran threat
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a dramatic address before the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, pausing in his speech for 45 seconds to denounce the world's "utter silence, deafening silence" on Iran's threats to destroy his nation.
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US, allies protest Russian raids as Iranian troops arrive in Syria to back up Assad
In a further escalation of the Syrian civil war, which is increasingly turning into a regional if not global conflict, hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive backed up by Russian armour and air power in support of President Bashar al-Assad's government, sources said on Thursday.
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California kindergarten slams its door on girl, 5, for having 2 lesbian mothers
For having two lesbian "mothers," a five-year-old girl was kicked out of kindergarten at a school in San Diego, California, just before the start of the new school year.
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Russia unleashes 'most violent, ferocious' airstrikes in Syria, drawing concerns in US
US lawmakers warned of the consequences of Russian military action in the Middle East moments after high-flying Russian warplanes unleashed the "most violent and ferocious" airstrikes Syria has ever known in four years of civil war on Wednesday.
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Russian Orthodox Church supports Putin's 'holy war' in Syria to protect Christians
Russia is waging a "holy war" in Syria to protect innocent Christians against the "tyranny of terrorism," the powerful Russian Orthodox Church declared in a statement on Wednesday as Russian warplanes began conducting airstrikes in Syria.