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Pope's Message to WCC Assembly After 40 years of collaboration with WCC, Pope Benedict remembers the good deeds of this fruitfull relation. His message was delivered at the opening ceremony in Porto Alegre, when Roman-Catholic Church expressed its hope that Christians will someday be united in expressing the belief in Christ (...) Another Debate in Catholic Bioethics Encouraged by the pope's encyclical letter on love, a group of French Catholic intellectuals and a bishop expressed the urge that Catholic vision over artificial birth control should be revised. This comes after Australian bishops have expressed similar points of view over bioethical issues (...) Evolutionism Should Not Be Pitted Against Religious Belief Evolutionism and its teaching in American schools should not be resisted by religious communities. Some cases ended up in civil court, but the scientific scholars argue evolutionism is not against any kind of religion, but sustains the existance of a designer in the making of the world (...) The Cartoons Are a Reason to Murder Following the riots exploding in all the arab world, in Nigeria, the agitation became violent when the local Muslim community expressed their rage against the Danish cartoons through the distruction of several churches and killing at least 15 people in what is now the most violent confrontation related to the drawings (...) In Italy It's Official: the Cross Is Educational The highest court in Italy agreed that the presence of crosses in public classrooms expresses the base on which the Italian culture and state-law was based upon. The ruling comes two moths after a judge refused to perform his duty in a court where the cross was present (...)
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