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Cross Wires: Thursday headlines
Publication Date: 2011-06-02
The latest news from home and abroad
SCOTLAND/UK
On the day that Refugee Week Scotland is being launched: Asylum seeker ‘amnesty’ condemned.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13617183
BBC survey: Viewers think broadcaster is anti-Christian.
http://www.christian.org.uk/news/bbc-survey-viewers-think-broadcaster-is-anti-christian/
Abuse filmed at a Bristol residential hospital has been condemned as ‘shocking’ by the government.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13617196
VATICAN
Pope Benedict XVI is urging youth to find inspiration in Blessed John Paul II: ‘father, guide, priest and friend of the youth.’
http://www.zenit.org/article-32733?l=english
Italy: Money seized from Vatican Bank is released.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/world/europe/02briefs-Italy.html
Giovanni Maria Vian, editor of L’Osservatore Romano, said he was cured of a childhood disease through the intercession of St Pope Pius X.
http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=13395
INTERNATIONAL
Auxiliary Bishop of Nazareth Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo concerned over survival of Christian community in Nazareth.
EU assures it backs religious freedom in Mideast.
Belgian abuse victims file class-action suit against Church.
http://www.uscatholic.org/news/2011/06/belgian-abuse-victims-file-class-action-suit-against-church
“We cannot keep silent about the truth. We will still continue our mission,” Fr John Shakir Nadeem, director of Radio Veritas in Urdu language, said after murder of journalist in Pakistan.
http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=29141&lan=eng
Priest to Catholics: Don’t join bandwagon supporting divorce in the Philippines.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/222335/nation/priest-to-catholics-dont-join-bandwagon-supporting-divorce
AND FINALLY
Hollywood to Alloa for Kirk minister Sang Cha.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-13616622
—Cross Wires is the Scottish Catholic Observer newspaper’s blog
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