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Pope Benedict XVI canonises four new saints

Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday gave the Roman Catholic church four new saints, including an Indian woman whose canonisation is seen as a morale boost to Christians in India who have suffered Hindu violence.

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Pope Benedict XVI gave the Roman Catholic church four new saints, including an Indian woman

Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday gave the Roman Catholic church four new saints, including an Indian woman whose canonization is seen as a morale boost to Christians in India who have suffered Hindu violence.

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Commemorative Coin for India’s First Woman Saint, Sister Alphonsa

India’s government announced on Saturday that it would issue a commemorative coin celebrating Sister Alphonsa. Pope Benedict XVI conferred Sainthood on her Sunday, making her the first native-born saint from India "This exceptional woman, who today is offered to the people of India as their...

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Pope Benedict XVI canonises four saints

Pope Benedict XVI has canonised four saints. Maria Bernarda Bütler, a nun who died in 1924 and who performed two miraculous healings, becomes Switzerland's first saint. The canonisation ceremonies for her and Gaetano Errico an Italian priest, Narcisa de Jesus Martillo a devoted believer from...

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Pope Benedict canonizes India's first woman saint

Pope Benedict XVI has created India's first woman saint, and denounced anti-Christian violence in that country and in Iraq.

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Vatican City: Changes for the pope's daily newspaper L'Osservatore

The Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano, the 147-year old newspaper of record will now carry international news stories and more articles written by women according to the Wall Street Journal. The paper's publisher, Pope Benedict XVI is said to have requested the changes. When the paper was founded...

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Sister Alphonsa anointed saint

A tapestry depicting Sister Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception is seen among the statues of St Peter's Colonnade during the canonisation ceremony led by Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican yesterday VATICAN ...

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VATICAN - Pope at the Angelus asks that the perpetrators of the violence "renounce these acts" ...

'I urge the perpetrators of violence to renounce these acts and join with their brothers and sisters to work together in building a civilization of love.' These were the words of Pope Benedict XVI at the ...

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India`s Sister Alphonsa attains sainthood

Vatican City, Oct 12: India got its first woman saint when Pope Benedict XVI canonised Kerala nun Sister Alphonsa at a special ceremony at St Peter’s Square in the Vatican City on Sunday. Watched by over 5,000 Indian Christians who came here for ...

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Blessed Alphonsa canonized by Pope Benedict, becomes India's first woman saint

Amid despairing news of Christian persecution in Orissa, Indian Roman Catholics have something to rejoice about: Pope Benedict XVI celebrated an open air mass in Vatican on Sunday to canonize India's first saint, Sister Alphonsa Bharanangnam who hailed from Kottayam in Kerala. In an address to...

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Pope Benedict XVI supports controversial pontiff Pius XII

Pope Benedict XVI has marked the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Pius XII, the controversial wartime pontiff, by insisting that Pius helped Jewish ...

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Vatican's Staid Paper Now Answers To a Higher Power of the Press

VATICAN CITY -- The newspaper industry might be on the ropes, but one staid broadsheet is getting a makeover at the behest of a lofty patron: Pope Benedict XVI. In its 147 years as the Vatican's newspaper of record, L'Osservatore Romano has rarely ...

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