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Cross Wires: Tuesday headlines

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Nuncio echoes Pope’s appeal for peace in Syria.

Religious freedom in the world has taken a step backwards.

Perpetual Eucharistic adoration (above) begins at the Olympics.

Kenya’s bishops decry international push for contraception in Africa.

Preparations are well underway for Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic visit in Lebanon in six weeks’ time.

US judge grants preliminary injunction, blocking the government from applying mandatory contraception and abortion healthcare law to religious for-profit company.

Pax Christi Metro New York is hosting events to mark the 57th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this Sunday.

ECUMENICAL

A Free Church of Scotland manse in Caithness with a link to Peter Pan creator JM Barrie has been put up for sale.

SPORT

Celtic dismiss Rangers chief executive Charles Green’s claim that religious bigotry was behind his club being denied entry to the Clydesdale Bank Premier League.

YOUTH

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference will host the first Australian Catholic Youth Festival in December 2013.

AND FINALLY 

Archbishops of Westminster and Birmingham have given their stamp of approval to the special Olympic and Paralympic postage stamps.

-Cross Wires is The Scottish Catholic Observer blog.

 

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