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Community attend Mass after shock of knife attack on island of Jersey. Pictured above suspect Damian Rzeszowski and his wife and children who were killed.

http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=512781

The peace rally held in Summerfield Park, Birmingham, on Sunday, brought together people from every faith along with civic and political leaders.

http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=18761

Web-savvy Catholic pilgrims gather in Madrid.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15318140,00.html

Thousands of young pilgrims from the UK and Ireland in Madrid, Spain to join in the largest youth event in the world.

http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=18763

Service held at held at St Mary’s cemetery, Lanark, for more than 100 children who had died in the former Smyllum Orphanage during it century in service and were buried in unmarked graves.

http://www.carlukegazette.co.uk/community/smyllum_memorial_service_held_1_1786540

Many children from broken homes are born ‘losers’ and so deprived of love that they grow up to be dysfunctional adults, according Bishop Christopher Jones of Elphin, Ireland.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/children-of-divorce-are-born-lsquolosersrsquo-claims-bishop-2848957.html

The Dutch Public Prosecution Office is investigating the deaths of 34 boys in the early 1950s in an institution for the mentally handicapped in the southern province of Limburg run by Catholic monks.

http://www.rnw.nl/africa/bulletin/investigation-deaths-boys-catholic-institution

China rejects Papal authority over Catholic hierarchy.

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2011/s3294117.htm

The Catholic Church is getting ready to start restoration work on two important churches in India’s Mumbai Diocese—Gloria Church in Byculla and St John the Baptist Church in Thane.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Historic-churches-to-get-new-look/articleshow/9618455.cms

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